Popular Woodworking Magazine » Letters http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:08:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Footstool’s Maloof-style Joinery Revealedhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/footstools-maloof-style-joinery-revealed http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/footstools-maloof-style-joinery-revealed#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:18:14 +0000 Glen D. Huey http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=261220
Footstool's Maloof-style Joinery Revealed

As managing editor, one of my duties is to pull together the “Letters” column for each issue, so please send in your questions or comments for me, the other editors or even for magazine contributors. We’ll do our best to provide answers as soon as we can. As I worked on the upcoming August issue, … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/footstools-maloof-style-joinery-revealed/feed 3 You Never Write, You Never Call…http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/you-never-write-you-never-call http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/you-never-write-you-never-call#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 22:44:00 +0000 Megan Fitzpatrick http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=162541
You Never Write, You Never Call...

The June issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine should now be in subscriber hands, and it was on newsstands as of Monday. So…we’d love to hear what you think (good and bad), answer any questions you may have, etc. about the articles therein. I’m always looking for questions and comments to use in our Letters column … Read more »

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Shop-made Vortex Dust Collector Woks On

From the August 2011 issue #191 Buy this issue now In April 2011, I blogged about a new dust collector from JET (read it here). I also wrote about the new collector design in the August 2011 (issue #191) “Tool Test” column (download a copy here). The company hung a cone-shaped device in the housing … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/shop-made-vortex-dust-collector-woks-on/feed 12 An Unprofitable Morninghttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/an-unprofitable-morning http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/an-unprofitable-morning#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:27:03 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/An+Unprofitable+Morning.aspx
An Unprofitable Morning

After last weekend’s orgy of tools, woodworking and back-breaking workbench moving at Woodworking in America, I decided to take a break today and buy some tools and old woodworking books , and move a huge metallic garden bench. This morning I woke up at 5 a.m. and headed down to Louisville, Ky., with Megan Fitzpatrick … Read more »

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SketchUp for Woodworkers: Review and FAQ

Last week we released the first of two SketchUp “Shop Classes” in the BookShop. In the first class, “SketchUp for Woodworkers Part 1: Getting Started,” Robert W. Lang teaches you the essential techniques to use SketchUp for a variety of woodworking applications. Many have already purchased the on-demand video download and others have ordered the … Read more »

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Dirty Words in Popular Woodworking Magazine

Reader Herb Wofford writes: With the downturn in the economy and prices going up I have been considering which woodworking magazine(s) I will have to for go. Until the latest issue, Popular Woodworking Magazine was not being considered, but now I will not renew my subscription. Personally, I take offense to language that I consider … Read more »

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Error in Cutting Lists

Gordon Humphrey writes: As (you are) past-editor of Woodworking Magazine (which I am more than a little sorry to see disappear), and still editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine and designer of the sideboard on the cover of the Summer 2009 issue of Woodworking Magazine (the featured project of that issue), I wish to call you … Read more »

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Should You Make a Cheap Bench First?

Question: I was planning to make a. . .good, fast, cheap workbench, as I think Bob Key called his design some years ago: fir or pine legs and top, Record face vise, and. . .well, some sort of end vise.  Then, after I used it for a year or two, make another bench with hardwood, … Read more »

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What Happened to the New Stanley Chisels?

Question: Any news on the “premium” Stanley Chisels you reported on in 2008? I use a pair of Everlasts everyday on site and in the shop that were handed down from my uncle. There are were four in the set but he managed to break two of the blades. Well, he was a fine mason … Read more »

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Tall Case Clock Design

I’ve been researching tall case clocks with an eye on building one for my home. but I’m troubled by the general lack of good proportioning in most if not all the design , the clocks have such large hoods, and small feet and bases in relationship to the body of the clock height. They appear … Read more »

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