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  All the face frame pieces being cut, I temporarely stabilize them with a clamp.     Now I clamp the pattern guide I made earlier and I draw all the decorative curves on the lower [...]

If you find your shop-made jigs are a bit sloppy in the miter track as you work, you need to grab a hold of Micro Jigs new “Zero Play” Guide Bar System (this is the same company that [...]

Legendary English craftsman Alan Peters used a Stanley No. 7 for every bench plane operation. David Charlesworth uses a No. 5-1/2. Joseph Moxon says you need a fore, jointer and smoothing planes. [...]

Tablesaw Picture Frame Safely make shaper-quality molding on your tablesaw without fancy jigs. By Eric Smith and Richard Tendick This how-to story has a picture-perfect ending. In fact, you might [...]

Speaker Stand with Hidden Storage By Gary Wentz Don’t you love hearing great sound with your movies at home? A pair of these oak stands puts today’s small speakers at the ideal height—3 ft. above [...]

When the NASCAR season ends, SPEED TV reporters John Roberts and Ray Dunlop burn rubber to their woodshops. What does the smell of oil, rubber and exhaust have to do with woodworking? Plenty, if [...]

Today most of the magazine’s staff spent the day with Ron Herman, a seventh-generation housewright in Columbus, Ohio, who has spent the last 29 years building, remodeling and restoring [...]

A SIMPLE TRICK MADE FROM A SOLID WOODEN CUBE WITH A CORD RUNNING THROUGH CENTRE OF CUBE.,THERE IS A KNOT AT EACH END OF THE CORD SO IT DOES NOT COME OFF THE CUBE.! CORD IS 16 INCHES LONG,AND CUBE [...]

          I use air tools for sanding, nailing and finishing. I usually work in my garage, but when the weather is nice, I often grab my sawhorses and move outdoors. I [...]

by Eric Smith People give me strange looks when I tell them I don’t mind sanding. Yeah, it’s dusty and a bit tedious, but I enjoy watching the fine detail in the wood grain pop out as I go [...]

Useful and Convenient — These sanding blocks belong in any shop. by Dave Munnkitrick Isaac Fischer, Jr., of Springfield, Vt., patented sandpaper on June 14, 1834. Shortly after that, [...]

BASIC OAK BOOK STAND FROM THE OFFCUTS. IDEAL FOR THE CHEF / COOK TO USE IN THE KITCHEN TO PUT HIS OR HER COOK BOOK ON. SIMPLE PIECE FROM OFFCUTS. OAK WAS USED AS ITS MOISTER RESISTANT FOR [...]