Why Wood Warps
Most warp takes place as green wood dries, but the potential for movement remains after lumber is brought into your shop. By Glen D. Huey Pages 6-10 From the Summer 2009 issue of Woodworking [...]
The Way Wood Works: Birch
The Way Wood Works: Birch This affordable wood is great for both high-end and utilitarian cabinetry. By Tim Johnson Birch is a hot item at the lumberyard these days, and birch veneer is the [...]
School’s Woodworking Awards: Mark Greensburg, KS Tornado Recovery
School’s Woodworking Awards: Mark Greensburg, KS Tornado Recovery Lavergne, TN – In his own words, Industrial Technology Instructor Peter Kern was blown away when his students at Kiowa [...]
The Way Wood Works: Reading Grain Direction
The Way Wood Works: Reading Grain Direction By Tom Caspar “Going against the grain” is a familiar phrase. It means doing something the wrong way.When you’re talking about wood, [...]
Design in Wood: The Winners, part 2
Selecting "Best of Show" awards at the San Diego "Design in Wood" exhibition on behalf of Woodwork and American Woodwork was a challenge. As I described in my last blog, the [...]
Workbenches: Balancing the Base and Top
On the first day of my woodworking classes at Dictum GmbH in Bavaria in June, I began with a confession. “I’m afraid that after three years, my German language skills are still crap,” I told the [...]
Knocking Together a Workbench
On the final day of a workbench class, the students either assemble all their benches or pack up the parts in their cars to assemble things at home. Assembly is easy. I usually do it by myself, [...]
My Assembly Tricks for Old World Workbenches
When I build a workbench in the old style, the rules for joinery change a bit for me. The strength of the bench comes from the top – not the base. And the amount of contact surface between all [...]
Mafell Chain Mortiser. Dang.
My least-favorite joint to cut by hand is – hands down – a deep mortise. But when you build a French-style workbench, you need to make about a dozen of them. And if you do it by hand, you are …
American Woodworker #161 August/September 2012 Preview
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Keyed Mitered Box SketchUp Model from ‘4 Boxes, 4 Ways’ in the August 2012 Issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine
This is a SketchUp model of a box featured in “4 Boxes, 4 Ways” from the August 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. View the SketchUp Model. View all of the Woodworking [...]
Stickley No. 74 Book Rack SketchUp Model from August 2012 issue Popular Woodworking Magazine
This is a model of a reproduction of a Gustav Stickley No. 74 Book Rack from the August 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. View the SketchUp Model. View all of the Woodworking SketchUp [...]
