Techniques

Flexible Spray Gun Pickup Tube My HVLP spray gun came equipped with a standard metal fluid-pickup tube. It works fine until I tip my gun to get inside a cabinet. Then the gun sputters and spits [...]

Longer-Lasting Polyurethane Glue Polyurethane glue is great stuff but has a short shelf life after the bottle is opened. That’s because the humidity in the air inside the bottle causes the glue [...]

Clandestine Tool Chest By Patrick O’Donnell I transformed this dresser for my daughter, who didn’t like the way her husband’s metal tool chest looked in their apartment. For [...]

Get the Burn Out By Dave Munkittrick Arrgh, another burned cut! Don’t you hate it when this happens? Here’s a fix. Shim out the workpiece with thin cardboard and take a second light [...]

High-Style Low-Cost TV Cabinet Simple joinery makes it easy to build – plywood makes it inexpensive. By Gary Wentz The striking style of this cabinet was inspired by visits to upscale furniture [...]

Ribbed Saw Table Fillers I like my contractor’s saw just fine, except for the ribbed extension tables. The openings can be a real finger pincher when sliding the rip fence across them. [...]

Chair Leg Repair My kitchen chairs are hardly valuable antiques, so when I broke a rung on one I wanted a strong but simple fix. I drilled out the broken tenon from the mortise and plugged [...]

Safer Small-Parts Routing By Paul M. Jayko When I have to rout a small part on my router table, I reach for a hand screw clamp. It holds the workpiece securely, keeps my hands a safe distance [...]

The new Stanley No. 4 smoothing plane. Stanley Works will release five premium-grade handplane models this year that are designed to compete with planes from Veritas and Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, [...]

In a move that will surely tighten the competition in the table saw market, SawStop announced plans to introduce a less expensive version of its cabinet saw that will use the same blade-stopping [...]

I think I was in the DeWalt booth when I suddenly felt the tide turn. One of the company’s product managers was explaining the new guard on the DeWalt jobsite table saw. It was one of the [...]

I’ve spent a good deal of energy investigating through-tenons. When I started collecting Arts & Crafts furniture in 1990, I quickly became attuned to spotting the joint in pieces for my [...]