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Come on down to the Woodworking in America Marketplace – filled with 60+ world-class toolmakers and vendors – and save $2 off the admission fee by downloading, printing and filling out the PDF [...]
In the October and November issues, Adam wrote a two-part article on Sharpening. To go with them, he provided a short piece to tell you just what an oilstone really is. To download the PDF, [...]
Bamboo is one of the best renewable plant-base composites I can think of. I call it renewable because it can grow, be harvested, germinate, and grow again and [...]
11 Tips for Using Epoxy By Brad Holden Epoxy is a specialty glue that does more than simply stick wood together. It also fills gaps. That makes it ideal for tackling loose joints, hard-to-clamp [...]
10 Tips for Gluing Miters By Bruce Wiebe Every woodworker faces their share of miter joints, whether framing a mirror, edge-banding a coffee table or assembling a jewelry box. And even for [...]
With less than a week before Woodworking in America commences, I’ve been scrambling to gather enough benches for all the classrooms – and I thought I had them covered without hauling my [...]
Whether you love them or hate them, the English form of the infill plane has remained almost unchanged since it was invented in the 19th century. An infill plane is a metal shell that is stuffed [...]
WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH OFF CUTS EASY TO DO ,AND CAN BE NATURAL OR PAINTED.EVEN MIXED TIMBERS CAN BE USED.THIS IS 4 X 1/2 INCH OFFCUTS. CUT INTO STRIPS 9 INCHES LONG. THEN A HOLE DRILLED DEAD CENTRE [...]
Like most Ohioans, I don’t need much of an excuse to scheme on making a trip to Southern California, especially at this time of year. It’s not just the fact that the days are getting [...]
Except for the impressive army of the 3D printers that I saw there, I encountered a few other fascinating machines. One of them is instrumental in the process of fabricating a plywood knock-down [...]
For most Americans, Lee Valley Tools is a catalog filled with objects of lust for the workshop. For Canadians, this lust also comes in the format of a retail store. And yes, this is worse. Lee [...]
The Woodworking in America conference is an opportunity to indulge in sensory overload, and for the third year in a row, I’ll be doing my part to keep your head spinning by teaching two [...]