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View ArticleRWW 94 Queen Anne Side Table Part 5: Drawer Details
Here is the final episode in my unplugged attempt to turn a simple Shaker side table into a low country Southern Queen Anne version. In this episode I tackle the drawer and fit it. I did not go into...
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Enlarging a Pattern
I know you have seen the occasional woodworking plan with a grid overlaid on the curvy parts and the publisher expects you to be able to enlarge that for your own project. There are a lot of ways to do...
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Little Things Make a Dreaded Task Fun
No one likes sanding, but I am the president of the non sanding fan club. That is probably what drove me into hand tools more than anything else. But as most will tell you (even the purists) at some...
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Scots-Irish Furniture Styles of Late 18th Century New Hampshire
The Wood Whisperer Guild is at is again and embarking on its summer group build. This time it is a chest of drawers. The “approved” plan is actually almost identical to the chest I built in July of...
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The Best Tool for the Job
I cut one of these feet by hand while working at The Steppingstone Museum using a turning saw. I cut the other 3 by band saw using a 1/4″ skip tooth blade. One took 4 hours with visitor interruptions...
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Welcome To Woodworking A-D-D: another new project arises…
I have always thought of myself as a pretty slow woodworker. I am constantly amazed by the time in which my fellows crank out furniture. I don’t attribute this to my penchant for hand tools either...
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Working With the Wood Grain for Greatest Strength
I am adding a French foot to the Hepplewhite bookcase that will be placed in my wife’s voice studio. In my last post about this little piece I teased you all with the pattern for the front apron and...
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The French Feet Start to Take Shape
Now that I have the grain aligned for the best strength it is time to begin cutting the feet to size and mitering them into the typical bracket foot. I need a 90 degree edge on this parallelogram so I...
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Completing the French Feet
I got to spend a lovely few minutes in the shop last night to finish up the shaping of the french feet for this Hepplewhite book case. When I last left off, I had just glued the mitered feet together...
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Sliding Dovetails Are the Epitome of Precision
So what good are some pretty French feet without a case to sit upon them? I had already started the casework before the feet but took a detour from it to build the feet because my set up for the...
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Hepplewhite Case Details Come Together
Enough of these ear drum smashing, dust spitting machines. The rough and tumble work is done on this book shelf so now it’s on the the work I truly love with my faithful hand tools. Maybe I will still...
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A Simple Square Case Gets A French Lesson
My Hepplewhite book case is out of the clamps and I have been playing around with my new scrumtrulescent Super Chute shooting board to miter the integral bead inlays. I took a break from that detail to...
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Reality is Not Square
Don’t you love when you are watching a woodworking show and the case comes together perfectly square with no adjusting at all? The host always gives tips for how to make it square but their work just...
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My Workbench is Officially Broken In
My Roubo workbench has given me so much joy that I finally decided to give something back and we became blood brothers last night. I guess I can say that I have finally broken in the bench with this...
View ArticleRWW #95 The Super Chute
Hello, remember when I used to make podcasts? I’m back and hopefully with a bang as I try out and review what I feel is the slickest shooting board on the market. Don’t know what a shooting board is?...
View ArticleTips from the Pros
I’ll be upfront and say that this post will probably get me in trouble but it is something that has been on my mind for a bit. I view fine woodworking to be in a renaissance of sorts as more and more...
View ArticleRWW 96 Avoiding the Planing Taper: Planecraft 101
This week I address a common problem when hand planing: inadvertantly tapering the board. This was something that Brian Meeks, @extremelyavg on Twitter brought to my attention. First off you should go...
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Dang Those Lie Nielsen Chisels Are Sharp…
…but not in the way you might think. Sure the edges are B-E-A-utifully sharp, but I’m talking about the sides of the blade that are ground down to a very fine edge. This is great for dovetail work as...
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The Sawdust Chronicles Build Challenge is Upon Us Again
The fall is here and that means cooler temps and fewer excuses to get out into your shops woodworking friends! Rick Waters and Neil Lamens are at it again with the latest Sawdust Chronicles Build...
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