This week I was in the shop working on an upcoming magazine article. On the case back there are two dados that locate and hold the drawer dividers of the project. For me, that generally means I pick up my router and get busy. This time, because I needed two matching slots, I decided one … Read more »
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As dawn broke, the sounds of heavy equipment filled the air. Today we began breaking down the dust collector from my shop in Pennsylvania. Tomorrow we’ll load it onto a trailer and it will head west to Ohio but it will not be going to my new shop outside Cincinnati. Frankly, it’s just too big … Read more »
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Now online: almost all of the online extras (we’re still working on a video or two) for the November 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. Visit popularwoodworking.com/nov13 for some videos, links to free articles, related blog posts and more – including our new Reader Gallery (more soon to come on that). The print issue drops … Read more »
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This week I’m in England doing research for my next book, “Campaign Furniture,” and spent today geeking out with Sean and Simon Clarke of Christopher Clarke Antiques – the world’s leading dealer of campaign antiquities. The Clarke brothers have handled thousands of pieces of campaign furniture built during two centuries of the peak of the … Read more »
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In the upcoming November 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I reveal five of my favorite jigs. The one I probably use the most often is pretty simple. It’s a stick. You’ll be able to read about how to make your very own stick in the issue but, if you’re impatient like me, you can watch … Read more »
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In the Saw Storage chapter for “Handsaw Essentials,” I would have liked to include this sawtill that Samuel Peterson built; it was featured in the August 2000 issue of Popular Woodworking. Alas, the files are so old that I would have had to send out slides for scans and rekey the text. And I guess … Read more »
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