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Now available at ShopWoodworking.com: The February 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, in either print or digital (PDF) format.
Our cover story is a gorgeous tiger maple serpentine chest from Glen D. Huey, contributing editor. Make these curvaceous drawer fronts, and you’ll also have learned the technique to make a block-front chest and an oxbow chest (and with a well-tuned band saw, it’s not as tricky as you might think).
Woodwright Roy Underhill shares the story of the last passer drill – and his reproduction thereof – in his article on period pattern routing (watch him in action here in a free video).
In “Just Plane Round,” Charles Bender teaches us the same exercise in dowel-making one of his first instructors taught him: how to make a perfect dowel using only a handplane.
Mark Arnold, the editor of the Society of American Period Furniture‘s journal American Period Furniture, shows us how to make a “crossetted frame” – a mirror or picture frame that has bold projecting corners inspired by architectural mouldings that also deliver a lovely, eye-catching grain pattern.
In “Mirrors in Multiples,” Robert W. Lang, executive editor, not only teaches us how to make a handy hand-held mirror (a great gift project) but also how to plan for production runs of an item. (The project was one he made for years as he traveled the woodworking/craft fair show circuit.)
Gary Rogowski shares his methods for designing, making and installing custom handles to complement – not compete with – your doors and drawers in “Handle With Care.”
Plus, Arts & Mysteries columnist Adam Cherubini tells us “There’s No Shame in Nails” (the first in his series on 18th-century-style nailed furniture projects); Bob Flexner gives us the low-down on “Green Solvents”; Steve Shanesy, senior editor, builds a handy message center for this issue’s I Can Do That project; Christoper Schwarz, contributing editor, gives us an inside look at Jeff Miller and his Chicago shop in “Designs of Note”; George Walker teaches us that Sketching is “All in Your Mind” in Design Matters; Eric Heydorn tells us how his woodworking has come “Full Circle” in End Grain and in Tool Test we review Festool’s new ZOBO bits, a new precision square from Veritas/Lee Valley, BLOKKZ Universal Clamping Blocks and a new steam generator for bending wood from Earlex. (Plus Tricks of the Trade and Letters, of course!)
Order your copy of the February 2012 issue now, in either print or digital format – and consider subscribing, too, to save almost half off the cover price for seven issues (subscriptions are available for either print or digital delivery).
p.s. Our free online extras for the February 2012 issue are available at popularwoodworking.com/feb12.
