December 2013 #208

Turn a Platter

December 2013 #208, Kitchen Projects, Projects, Turning, Turning Projects, Woodworking Gifts, Woodworking Posts / Enthusiast

Shop scraps and a few simple techniques will get you spinning along. Large turning projects can be daunting. A large bowl, for example, requires gluing up a blank or sourcing…
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Promise to a Professor

December 2013 #208, End Grain, Shop Blog, Woodworking Posts / Enthusiast

Mr. Sheffield’s two-year writing slope. About a decade ago, I walked into my English professor’s office for advising and couldn’t take my eyes off of his homemade writing slope. He was talking credits and prerequisites; I was thinking this …
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Pick the Perfect Lock

December 2013 #208, Hardware, Lock, Techniques, Woodworking Posts / Enthusiast

The key to selection is knowing the terminology and how a lock works. Locks protect our worldly goods from outsiders who wish to take those goods from us. In earlier days, the use of furniture locks had a somewhat …
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