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Although delicate, this graceful table should provide years of service in your home. Many years ago while teaching a chairmaking class at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking, I thanked Mario [...]

There are many things we do wrong but we don’t know they’re wrong. In woodworking there are two kinds of mistakes: There’s the garden-variety gaffe where we simply cut a board too short or botch [...]

Your joints will last for decades if you know how to apply your glue. Much of woodworking is joinery: An edge-to-edge joint is used to join two or more boards to create a tabletop, dovetails are [...]

Sometimes it’s a good technique for repairing damaged finishes. By Bob Flexner Pages: 102-104 From the November 2004 issue #144 Buy this issue now In the woodworking community, French polishing [...]

A simple and inexpensive accessory that will cut accurate joints. By Bill Hylton Pages: 94-96 From the November 2004 issue #144 Buy this issue now The mortise and tenon is one of those [...]

By Nick Engler Pages: 49-56 From the November 2004 issue #144 Buy this issue now Your table saw is the central piece of machinery in your shop, and the blade (or more appropriately – blades) is a [...]

By Christopher Schwarz Page: 31 From the November 2004 issue #144 Buy this issue now If you don’t have a splitter on your table saw, put down the magazine when you finish reading this review and [...]

By David Thiel Page: 31 From the November 2004 issue #144 Buy this issue now Every woodworker is aware of how important dust collection is for the safety of your lungs. But every one of us has [...]

By Robert W. Lang Page: 30 From the November 2004 issue #144 Buy this issue now The Kreg miter gauge system is well designed and nicely made, but a few elements in its construction keep me from [...]

By Christopher Schwarz Page: 30 From the November 2004 issue #144 Buy this issue now Though Lee Valley Tools describes this tool as a “plane” in its catalog, it actually has a lot more in common [...]