Woodworking Posts

My brother is remodeling his house, which is great for my blog because he’s a magnet for finish problems. Then he calls me. Here’s the latest: He hired a paint contractor to recoat his deck, which was worn in spots. The contractor pressure washed, let the deck dry, then brushed on a deck stain. The next day he brushed on an oil finish and didn’t wipe off the excess. (I’m […]

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Last week I showed the first part of Mark’s project that was completed during my live edge class at Peters Valley. This week I will show you how Mark finished building his table. Turning the legs After crosscutting the walnut beam into a portion that matched the approximate length of the legs, Mark resawed it into four parts. Then he placed each part in the lathe, and because he knew that […]

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The cutters in my bench planes all have cambered irons. The jack has the most – a 10” radius curve – follow by the much slighter curves of my jointer and smoothing planes. The curves do two things: They prevent the corners of the iron from digging into the work and creating “plane tracks,” tiny unsightly rabbets. And the cambered irons also allow me to remove material in certain areas […]

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Yoav Liberman’s work has been featured in several woodworking books – most recently in “Robin Wood’s CORES Recycled,” and in American Woodworker and Woodwork Magazine. He’s also a regular contributor to the PWM Shop Blog. Yoav teaches woodworking at the Rudolf Steiner School in Manhattan, frequently guest teaches in craft schools across the country, and between 2003 and 2011 he headed the woodworking program at Harvard University’s Eliot House. He […]

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Nancy R. Hiller earned a City & Guilds of London certificate in furniture making in 1980. She’s been a professional designer and cabinetmaker ever since and specializes in period-authentic work. Her work has appeared in Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Popular Woodworking Magazine, Old-House Journal, American Bungalow and many other publications. Hiller took few moments to speak to us about her work and her upcoming appearance at Woodworking in America. You’ve been a professional designer and cabinetmaker […]

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Create a thick, solid look for your cabinetry with a laminated plywood approach. This excerpt from “How to Build Bookcases and Bookshelves” covers a plywood sandwich construction technique that will give you the look of heavy solid panels for your furniture projects. Sandwich construction uses readily available thicknesses of plywood to create thicker panels. It also lets you produce a panel that has two very good-looking sides because the best […]

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