Inlaid Dovetail Box
Boxes make great gifts and are extremely useful, but they can be decorative as well. If you’ve been reading woodworking magazines for any length of time at all you know just about everyone [...]
Better Start Building – Excellence Awards Deadline Fast Approaching
Just a reminder that the deadline is fast approaching for the 2014 PWM Excellence Awards; all entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on June 20. Winning work will be featured in the November [...]
Learn to Design Furniture – Build Reproductions
Early on in my woodworking career, I fancied myself a designer. I wanted to create new and exciting stuff and managed to have my work accepted in some pretty good arts & crafts shows. My [...]
Q & A: Square Drive vs. Phillips-Head Screws
The primary advantage to square-drive screws is they are much less prone to “cam-out.” Cam-out refers to the slipping of the bit in the screw head as the screw is driven.
AW Extra 5/29/14 – Folding Worktable
Folding Worktable This simple, roll-around worktable fits in tight spaces yet expands to a huge work surface. By David Radtke Here’s a work space that’s huge and accessible from all sides, [...]
Design in Practice: Stylin’
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the roots of Arts & Crafts furniture and, in the comments, reference was made to “what makes a particular furniture style?” From the first time [...]
Threadboxes: One More Song the Radio Won’t Like
Whenever I write about threadboxes, my personal blog gets swamped with spam from the Pacific Rim. So batten down the firewalls, mateys. I started writing about the Moxon double-screw vise in 2010 [...]
Modeling the Core Box Router Bit in SketchUp
A student emailed me and asked: “How do I model the cut a core box router bit makes in SketchUp?” At first glance you might think the answer is the usual – model the shape of the bit and use …
Chairmakers’ Roundtable at Woodworking in America
Because of the wealth of many excellent chairmakers who are teaching at Woodworking in America 2014 (Sept. 12-14, Winston-Salem. N.C.), among our session offerings is the Chairmakers’ [...]
About Me & Woodworking in America
It’s a strange world where I need to write a blog entry about this topic. Recently Editor Megan Fitzpatrick and I have been getting e-mails and phone calls with this basic question: “Why isn’t [...]
Friday at Brad’s Bench May 23rd
Let the Boxes Begin A couple weeks ago I wrote about some teak that I salvaged from an old Adirondack chair. I started a project with it today; a long, slender dovetailed box with a sliding lid. [...]
Not Just a Stuffed Dove
What’s really fascinating about this “Woodwright’s Shop” video excerpt is the way Roy Underhill expands the definition of dovetails and dovetailing. Woodworkers can get into a rut thinking only [...]
