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  All the face frame pieces being cut, I temporarely stabilize them with a clamp.     Now I clamp the pattern guide I made earlier and I draw all the decorative curves on the lower [...]

If you find your shop-made jigs are a bit sloppy in the miter track as you work, you need to grab a hold of Micro Jigs new “Zero Play” Guide Bar System (this is the same company that [...]

Legendary English craftsman Alan Peters used a Stanley No. 7 for every bench plane operation. David Charlesworth uses a No. 5-1/2. Joseph Moxon says you need a fore, jointer and smoothing planes. [...]

Tablesaw Picture Frame Safely make shaper-quality molding on your tablesaw without fancy jigs. By Eric Smith and Richard Tendick This how-to story has a picture-perfect ending. In fact, you might [...]

Speaker Stand with Hidden Storage By Gary Wentz Don’t you love hearing great sound with your movies at home? A pair of these oak stands puts today’s small speakers at the ideal height—3 ft. above [...]

Today most of the magazine’s staff spent the day with Ron Herman, a seventh-generation housewright in Columbus, Ohio, who has spent the last 29 years building, remodeling and restoring [...]

A SIMPLE TRICK MADE FROM A SOLID WOODEN CUBE WITH A CORD RUNNING THROUGH CENTRE OF CUBE.,THERE IS A KNOT AT EACH END OF THE CORD SO IT DOES NOT COME OFF THE CUBE.! CORD IS 16 INCHES LONG,AND CUBE [...]

          I use air tools for sanding, nailing and finishing. I usually work in my garage, but when the weather is nice, I often grab my sawhorses and move outdoors. I [...]

by Eric Smith People give me strange looks when I tell them I don’t mind sanding. Yeah, it’s dusty and a bit tedious, but I enjoy watching the fine detail in the wood grain pop out as I go [...]

Useful and Convenient — These sanding blocks belong in any shop. by Dave Munnkitrick Isaac Fischer, Jr., of Springfield, Vt., patented sandpaper on June 14, 1834. Shortly after that, [...]

BASIC OAK BOOK STAND FROM THE OFFCUTS. IDEAL FOR THE CHEF / COOK TO USE IN THE KITCHEN TO PUT HIS OR HER COOK BOOK ON. SIMPLE PIECE FROM OFFCUTS. OAK WAS USED AS ITS MOISTER RESISTANT FOR [...]

Hi. I’m a long-time reader and a first-time caller. I really want to start using handplanes in my work. I’ve been looking at some of the premium handplanes from Veritas and [...]