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Freaky Friday

Freaky Friday

Woodworking in America is just a week away, so it’s best if you register for the conference (great woodworking information), or purchase your ticket for the marketplace (great tools) right away. For the editors of Popular Woodworking Magazine, this means we are all head-deep into preparation for our sessions, getting setups ready and dragging the … Read more »

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Pocket Screws with Fine Furniture

Pocket Screws with Fine Furniture

In the lowboy build that I’m working on for the February 2014 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I’ve decided to use pocket screws to attach the lowboy top instead of driving nails through the top into the parts below. When some woodworkers hear that I get the wrinkled-nose effect, as in “What the hell are … Read more »

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Tricks of the Trade & End Grain Contests – Win a Copy of ‘Handsaw Essentials’

Tricks of the Trade & End Grain Contests – Win a Copy of 'Handsaw Essentials'

We’re trying to get a few issues ahead (a girl has to have a dream), thus we need to beef up our files on our reader-sourced “Regulars” columns: Tricks of the Trade and End Grain. Not only will the winners and runners-up get paid and see their work in upcoming issues of Popular Woodworking, the … Read more »

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Another Way to Fold a Table

Another Way to Fold a Table

During the last two years my woodworking has been consumed with furniture in the campaign style from Great Britain. One of the many cool aspects of this style of furniture is that many of the pieces fold up for transport. Last week I finished building a teak folding officer’s field desk from about 1830. The … Read more »

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Highly Recommended: ‘The Practical Woodworker’

Highly Recommended: ‘The Practical Woodworker’

I was going to write about these books when they were first republished, but by the time I got around to it, ShopWoodworking.com had sold out. “The Practical Woodworker” edited by Bernard E. Jones is a one of the backbones of a good library on the craft of woodworking and is now back in print … Read more »

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Just a Little Shaker Lap Desk Mistake

Just a Little Shaker Lap Desk Mistake

Earlier this year (before becoming a member of the editorial staff) I teamed up with Popular Woodworking Magazine and presented one of my No BS Woodworking (my online subscription based woodworking show) projects in an online class format. With the impending release of the DVD of that class, “Build a Shaker Lap Desk, with Chuck Bender“, … Read more »

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