Thrown for a Loop
Every once in a while, somebody creates a series that, for reasons unknown, really strikes something inside me. That’s the case with the furniture of bent-lamination wizard Kino Guérin. I’m…
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Grain Painting
Grain painting with beer, earth pigments and flaming shellac. When most people think of period furniture, they think of high-style carving or inlay. This hyper-focus on exceptional examples skews our…
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Monticello’s Stacking Bookcases
Thomas Jefferson’s book boxes became the foundation of the Library of Congress. I like to think of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library as America’s first “bookmobile.” When the British burned down…
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Made You Look: A cool Studley-inspired tool chest
Check out this marvelous tool chest which took Patrick Damiani 400 hours to build.
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More is Not Always Better
I’ve been low-key looking for a new tablesaw for about a year. We had a 14” Rockwell saw that for most of its life was a main saw in a…
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No Slip Clamp Guides
Guide clamps make it easy to position a straightedge for sawing or routing, because they clamp to both ends of a workpiece. I made my own, using a 5“ wide…
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