Log cookies, or rounds as they are also know, can be the beautiful foundation for your next woodworking project. Add hairpin legs, and just like that...
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How To Make Hand-Cut Bowties
Bowties (also called butterflies) provide a great way to stabilize cracks. Creating your bowties from scratch allows you to make them any size you...
Continue ReadingGet Professional Results with Wipe-on Polyurethane
You’ve poured your heart and soul into a woodworking project, and demonstrated your proficiency in the craft. Now it’s time to put apply a finish,...
Continue ReadingMeasuring Tablesaw Dust Collection Efficiency
If you’ve ever wanted to improve dust collection at the tablesaw, knowing how to measure its current efficiency is a great place to start. Obviously,...
Continue ReadingHow to Install Inset Drawers with a Perfect Gap
Sometimes a furniture project calls for inset drawers, and it can be a humbling experience to try to install the drawer fronts with a consistent gap...
Continue ReadingHow to Make and Install Great Face Frames the Easy Way
Face frames are a great way to create a professional look for your cabinet, tying together the cabinet carcase and providing visual continuity...
Continue ReadingTurntable for Spray Finishing
I like to spray my finishes for all sorts of woodworking projects. Whether the topcoat is shellac, lacquer or polyurethane, spray finishing gives me...
Continue ReadingFive Tips For Better Panel Glue-Ups
Gluing multiple boards together to form a larger panel is one of the core, essential skills that every woodworker should master early on in their...
Continue ReadingFairing Strip with Ruby Twine
A bandsaw is the perfect tool for cutting curves for all sorts of woodworking projects. I like to build arts and crafts style furniture, and many...
Continue ReadingHow to Prepare Square, Straight Lumber
Many woodworkers build their first creations with a misguided belief that the lumber that they buy from the home center or lumber yard is square and...
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