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Achieving a glass-flat surface is a lot easier than you might think. By Bob Flexner Pages: 79-83 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now After spending countless hours building a [...]

Between meetings, classes and regular living, I’ve cut 132 dovetails during the last couple weeks to build my next project, which will be featured on the cover of the June 2011 issue of Popular [...]

Woodworking magazines present a distorted view of reality. We show ourselves working on projects using the latest and greatest tools, and it’s easy to start thinking you really need this stuff to [...]

We spend three days with the world’s most expensive planes. Are they just jewelry? Or do they work better than your plane? By Christopher Schwarz Pages: 52-59 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy [...]

By David Thiel Pages: 41-48 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now Over the past six chapters of this primer on Casework Construction we’ve focused on how case pieces are built: the [...]

By David Thiel Page: 28 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now In a world of mid-sized routers offering both a fixed and plunge base, the Triton MOF001KC is a competitively priced, [...]

By Christopher Schwarz Page: 28 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now I’ve long been a fan of large shoulder planes and have many miles on my Lie-Nielsen 073, which I bought the [...]

By David Thiel Page: 27 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now Our staff has an ongoing discussion about the best way to make dados. Whether using a dado stack or router, the trick is [...]

By Robert W. Lang Page 27 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now Last summer and fall I extensively tested several carving gouges from English toolmaker Ashley Iles. Midway through [...]

I have been absent from my blog for the last couple of weeks now.. I had to take down the show at Purchase College, relocate my on-campus studio and apartment, and then leave the States to [...]

By David Thiel Page: 26 From the August 2006 issue #156 Buy this issue now My first look at the newest cabinet saw from Powermatic was last year when the company was still working out some final [...]

Don’t let the dizzying array of choices get you discombobulated. By Bob Flexner Pages: 90-93 From the June 2006 issue #155 Buy this issue now Go to any home center and you will probably be [...]