Sometimes you do something and wonder: “what took me so long to do that?” Well, yesterday was one of those days for me in the workshop. For years, I have been working with the standard table on my drill press. As you can see in the picture, I simply clamp a straight board to the [...]
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I buy virtually all of my lumber for furniture projects in the “rough”. By rough, I mean that the lumber has not been processed in any way since it was sawed into planks and then dried. The bark is gone, but the faces and the edges are rough and in need of surface and edge [...]
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Recently there has been a lot of buzz in the woodworking community about the new Festool Domino joinery system. If you have not yet seen this system, it’s kind of like a Biscuit Joiner on steroids. However, different from the small circular blade on a Biscuit Joiner that cuts a football-shaped groove, the Domino cuts [...]
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This weekend I was doing a bit more straightening in the workshop and I came across a box of older Fine Woodworking magazines that I had temporarily stored there and were in need of a better home. While sorting through the issues so that I could file them, I came across Issue #168 from February [...]
I spent some time this past weekend starting the process of cleaning up the workshop. I say starting because there is still a ways to go! I don’t want to give you the impression that the shop was a total mess or anything. It had the usual areas of clutter and things that did not [...]
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