Author name: Enthusiast

In early July I had the pleasure of returning to Peters Valley School of Craft in New Jersey to teach a class on live edge furniture. Live edge furniture, also known as natural edge furniture is furniture that celebrates wood in its most dramatic, organic and irregular way — by showing off bark, spalted areas and cracks. When designing a live edge piece, one has the luxury of stepping back from the […]

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Joe Zeh is a lifelong woodworker and an engineer with experience in the computer and graphics industry. He is author of “SketchUp: A Design Guide for Woodworkers” and also teaches SketchUp in video and live courses. This September Woodworking in America will feature two sessions by Zeh on the program and how to utilize it for woodworking. He was kind enough to spare a few moments from his busy schedule to answer […]

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Download the Puzzle file used in this project.

Tools and Supplies

Full Spectrum Laser
Spray Adhesive
Art Board
Grr-ripper Pushblock
Painters Tape
Titebond CA Glue
Plywood
Festool Random Orbit Sander
Camera Used
Lav Mic Used

Download the Puzzle file used in this project.

Tools and Supplies

Full Spectrum Laser
Spray Adhesive
Art Board
Grr-ripper Pushblock
Painters Tape
Titebond CA Glue
Plywood
Festool Random Orbit Sander
Camera Used
Lav Mic Used

When I bought my first Stanley No. 5 in the mid-1990s, I regularly used the lever cap as a screwdriver to adjust the tension screw in the center of the frog and to tighten and loosen the cap iron screw. Then one of my fellow employees dressed me down. You should never do that, they told me, because that illicit activity could chip the lever cap. This is advice repeated […]

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I recently stopped by the Lost Art Press shop to chat with Christopher Schwarz for a few minutes about Roman workbenches. He’s in the midst of building two of these in preparation for his talk on that subject at Popular Woodworking in America 2016 (Sept. 16-18 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center). I was curious as to why, after so many years of championing the “Roubo Bench,” he’s become interested […]

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