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Greene & Greene (G&G) breadboard ends are never flush with the edge or top of a table top.  This proud look is then capped with a polished Ebony spline embedded in a mortise between the breadboard end and the table top infield. The spline profile is lifted (often called a cloud lift) to accentuate the proud look of the breadboard end relative to the infield.  Furthermore, the spline is pillowed […]

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We had some great videos this week, thank you all for submitting the best woodworking videos! I’d like to draw special attention to Simple Cove’s video series on building a cherry wall cabinet. He adapted the build from plans that appeared in the pages of our magazine and has shared the entire series in an easy to follow along format on his site, simplecove.com. Thanks, Sean! Here are the best […]

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There are a lot of people who don’t see the point of having a panel-cutting sled, which is a sled that has its fence on its leading edge instead of on its trailing edge. The better solution, I’m told, is a giant sliding table that can handle a 4×8 sheet of plywood and have a stop system for repeatability. That approach is correct if you make kitchen cabinets for a […]

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I recently finished a fun serving tray project with shop scraps. It features a decorative bottom covered with a bar top finish. You can pretty much build this to any dimensions you’d like, but take into account how deep your tray needs to be to accommodate whatever you use to decorate the bottom – in my case I used halved wine corks. My dimensions ended up at 3″ x 15″ […]

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I’ve enjoyed building Arts & Crafts furniture for a number of years. The look of the quarter-sawn oak after finishing has always been a strong selling point – a common approach is a historical finishing process called fuming. In a nutshell, the idea is to expose the finished piece of furniture to the fumes of ammonia. The tannins in the wood react to the fumes and darken. Pretty cool. But […]

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No, you have not entered an alternative dimension. Today – on this blog that focuses on handwork – we are going to talk about table saw sleds. When I do production work – processing hundreds of board feet of lumber for a class, for example – the table saw is an important machine. Table saws are great for ripping, but they are kind of crappy for crosscutting. Manufacturers have devised […]

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