In saw sharpening, generally anyway, two file strokes per gullet will deliver a better cutting tip if you understand what you are doing and the reason behind why your are doing it. Until I began teaching others the art of my work the subtle nuances I generally took for granted remained hidden away. Most of […]
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1:07 – Marc’s glue caddys for IWF
3:02 – Why doesn’t IWF ever come to the west coast?
4:25 – Mail time!
6:37 – New glue roller – https://amzn.to/2NbuDk3
8:51 – Prescription safety glasses
13:05 – What do you use for countersink bits for plugs? Do you cut your own plugs? Marc’s Countersink
Plug Cutters
18:38 – Any advice on how to convince my wife to let me spend lots of money on woodworking tools?
20:20 – What’s the best finish to keep my maple white and not yellow?
21:45 – How do you remember the direction and orientation for your handplane irons?
25:25 – Any idea on where to buy router templates?
26:56 – If you could go back in time and rename your business, what would you change it to?
28:25 – Do you think the Festool plunge router is worth it?
32:13 – How do you handle dust collection for handheld tools? Is a dust extractor that much better than a shop vac? Oneida Dust Hood
36:52 – What plunge router bits do you consider must haves?
38:20 – Why do you need a router bit to flatten the benchtop if they’ve already been planed before?
42:03 – What about a beginning set of bits for a router? Nice bit set.
45:00 – Can I put a wedge under my track saw to cut a bevel that isn’t sufficient for a tablesaw?
46:55 – Any ideas on how to control humidity without an AC?
48:40 – How do you and Nicole combat Youtube burnout?
54:20 – How do you like your Blue Spruce vs Japanese chisels?
56:11 – Is it official that you miss the shop help from AZ most of all?
57:20 – Do you still play WoW?
59:06 – Guild project winner – Chuck Thompson!
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It’s not confusing to me, but it could be for some. Go through my history and you’ll see my life journey begin in Stockport, England, near Manchester. It was from there that I migrated to a new life in the USA and built my Texas home, continuing my lifestyle as a woodworking furniture maker designer. […]
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By: Bob Rozaieski Learn how to work with brass and make an indispensable tool for hand work. Wood and brass …
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Here’s how I made the pair of urns in last week’s post. Step 1: Choose your material My client wanted to use maple for one of the urns because she’s from Canada. She also liked the idea of walnut splines. She chose the other species — cherry for one of the boxes and burly ambrosia maple...
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I decided to try my hand at making band saw boxes. I’ll have a slower and more serious video later showing you the details of the technique, but for now, enjoy the making of this very impractical box.
By the way, the music is a direct reference to the movie Deadpool 2.
The dye stains I used in the video are:
Empire Red
Ebony
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After about two years of planning and building and then six months of internal construction and organising, the day came to open the doors to guests, visitors who love woodworking as much as we do. It can be quite a drain getting this point, builders never quite seem to match their presentation but you put […]
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A cat’s paw driven under the head of a nail destined for extraction. This is just one of many original …
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If you’re reading this, then you already know: We’ve launched our new website and rebrand of Popular Woodworking. The biggest …
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Designing a piece of furniture with multiple spindles – or even working with someone else’s plan – can be tricky. …
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We’ve officially wrapped the 34 Days of Dad contest and I have a list of daily winners for you! All of our winners have already been notified. Thanks for participating! – David Lyell Round Date Day Sponsor State First Last 1 5/15/18 Tue Mirka NE Paul N. 2 5/16/18 Wed Bessey KY Scott H. 3 5/17/18 Thu Fuji Sprayers NY Bill C. 4 5/18/18 Fri Teknatool AB Gord H. 5 […]
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This wall piece is made of alligator bark Juniper wood put together like a jigsaw puzzle held together by eight gallons of epoxy. Ten pounds of turquoise, a few granules of glow-in-the-dark sand, and a color changing strip of LEDs are included into the epoxy. Inspiration came from the oddly shaped pieces that were leftover after milling a root burl. I started playing with them like a jigsaw puzzle and realized I needed to join them into one piece.
The finish is a thinned down varnish which I prefer for pieces that aren’t going to live exposed to UV light, usually about ten coats to get this sheen. Too beautiful to not share. I feel blessed that I enjoy working with live edged Juniper so much and hope you all enjoy it just as much. Check out my Facebook page Mountain Juniper Gallery of Handmade Furniture for pictures of more of my art.
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Recently one of the leg vises in my shop cracked. The vise chop snapped and the garter on the wooden screw gave way. While I could repair the damage, I decided to replace the entire mechanism with a Benchcrafted Classic vise and a Crisscross Retro. I have this setup on one of my other benches and it is, without question, my favorite woodworking vise. The Classic moves swiftly. I never […]
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For the many-hundredth time last week, I explained the virtues of simple workbenches to a skeptical audience of 10 workbench builders. They weren’t having it. Their benches were sketched out with complex tail vises, multiple rows of dogs, twin-screw vises, quick-release vises and other assorted bench appliances. As always, I shrugged my shoulders and smiled when I finished my speech. Woodworkers at the beginning of their career will always – […]
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This folding bookstand starts out the size of a smartphone and opens to make your reading (or cooking) easier. How-to books, cookbooks and sheet music are inconvenient to use while you’re in the workshop, kitchen or concert hall. That’s why bookstands (and music stands) were invented. These, however, can be bulky. And so the mechanical minds of the 19th century devised several clever ways to fold up a bookstand so […]
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Two things off the top of my head. The Open House day is Saturday and that’s going well. Everyone here is excited to meet everyone coming and share their experience, show you around and explain things. I am going to give a presentation we will be filming to send round after the day, alongside a […]
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Adding a main shelf underneath my bench is a questionable addition except this time I am going to take control of it. Over the years it proved useful more as a catchall for stuff that just does not fit elsewhere rather than an organised system of storage. It did hold my electric grinder, my metal […]
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It’s fitting for a workman to establish things. As a boy I watched men do this from time to time. People then didn’t flit, they stayed. By that I mean from job to job, place to place, change homes, such like that. They simply established themselves and stayed. Sometimes a new man came. There were […]
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Making a workbench drawer is a good way to familiarise anyone for drawer making. It’s certain to demolish anyone’s fear that half-lap dovetails are hard to deal with. The system I developed and use almost every time for half-lap dovetails guarantees good fitting dovetails and an outcome designed to last for a century of daily […]
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We are happy to announce the winner of our Workshop Makeover sponsored by Jet, Woodpeckers and Bessey! Roy B. from Louisiana was working on an oil rig when he got the news. Here’s what he had to say when he got home! I am a new Popular Woodworking Magazine subscriber, but I have been getting and enjoying their emails with new products and woodworking tips for a little over a year. […]
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Many of you on a more local level said that you hoped to come by and visit us when we were more settled and that’s just about where we are. Next weekend, Saturday 23rd, we are opening up the garage workshop and the studio in Abingdon, UK and we will be here to talk about […]
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Sometimes it’s fun to dive deep into a topic. I recently had to cut a large rabbet using a rabbeting bit which resulted in rounded corners. Unfortunately, I need the corners to be square so it was time to break out the chisels. While this process may be common sense to some, the actual steps taken to achieve a perfect continuation of the rabbeted edge without mangling the integrity of the lines requires quite a bit of attention to detail. So this is a step by step review of my process.
Stuff mentioned in the video:
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Many years ago, I found a great little Limbert desk while researching Arts and Crafts furniture. I admired its lines and economy, and filed it in my ‘to build some-day’ folder. When my youngest daughter went back to school and my wife picked up some freelance writing jobs, we needed a desk to support her new endeavor. We live in a smallish two-flat in Chicago, and this desk with a […]
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Storing my wood Our economy’s different than business economy, more sort of domestic, kitchen-like, gardening-like economy. We work in different realms of domesticity and woodworking has always been part of my family and domestic life. Never distinctly sawn off as somewhere I go to from. Oh we still have constraints, but it’s not so much […]
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0:00 – Welcome to Friday Live
0:50 – Thanks Patrons! Question link will be up next week!
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1:18 – Marc was sent a draw knife wrapped in underwear
2:43 – Dema sent Marc a very nice brass hammer
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4:43 – The next guild giveway is some Walrus Oil!
5:25 – Does anyone make plywood drawers using dovetails?
6:25 – Should I get a round or flat spokeshave?
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8:45 – What do you think of Incra Miter Sled now that you have used it for a while?
10:20 – Marc is teaching at Marc Adams – Gaming Coffee Table
15:15 – Can you give an example on preventing tearout?
18:03 – Now that GeekChic is gone, would you do the gaming table differently?
20:02 – Have you ever seen anyone use lilac wood in small projects?
20:16 – What’s the best bet for deglossing a lacquer finish?
22:29 – What’s with Marc’s new glasses and eye protection?
24:05 – With a full bridle joint, do you need to account for expansion in a face frame?
25:14 – Did Bob Ross inspire any of your woodworking projects?
26:12 – Would white oak, straight grain, on its face be too unstable for a face to face laminate workbench top?
27:20 – Do you find more enjoyment in building a project or in teaching?
29:10 – Did Marc do a meeting on the Incra 5000? (It was done as a Guild Meeting)
30:24 – Any ideas on putting wheels on a workbench?
32:48 – Do you have a favorite brand of shoe for the shop?
35:27 – Is the Incra box joing jig worth buying?
37:16 – Would Marc collaborate with Ron Swanson?
38:25 – What’s your favorite marking gauge and knife?
40:35 – What degree chamfer bit did you use for the scrapwood jewelry box?
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I’ve hosted PopWood Playback every week for five months and I’m ready to experiment. The format has been largely the same. I present five of the best woodworking videos of the week on YouTube after a couple of announcements – with just a couple exceptions where I tied in a tool review into the video. It has been a lot of fun to engage with the YouTube community each and […]
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Woodworkers love their routers, and it seems they love to learn new ways to use their routers. Yes, I will admit to being one of those woodworkers. I’ve used a variety of replacement router bases over the years (decades, ack!), for trimming laminate, for making circles, for flushing plugs. Some were store-bought, many were shop-made, so it very much surprised me when I found a router plate option that I hadn’t […]
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This is pretty basic, but here goes anyway. When you have a situation of peeling paint, you have to remove it before applying fresh paint, or your efforts will be ineffective. Scraping usually works best, but in these situations, it’s pretty clear that the wood has deteriorated due to the exposure to sun and rain, so paint isn’t going to hold well unless you sand first. A few passes with […]
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Whenever I have a day off when I’m traveling, I gorge myself on museums. Yesterday I had a free day in Munich, Germany, and spent the whole day in three museums. The highlight was getting to see work by Richard Riemerschmid in person. Riemerschmid (1868-1957) was one of the leading designers of Germany’s Art Nouveau movements (Jugendstil) and was heavily influenced by the English Arts & Crafts movement. I’ve found […]
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Knew concepts fret saws belongs to a small group of truly revolutionary tools such as Tite-Mark Marking Gauge and the veritas® PM-V11® Bench Chisels. Whether they were the brainchild of a maverick innovator or an outcome of a long process of a company’s teamwork, these newcomers rightly joined a pantheon of inspiring tools whose material, mechanism or shape were truly novel, and who potentially could launch, once a mundane tool […]
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I’m interrupting the garden gate series to delve into a matter that arose in the comments on a previous post, where I mentioned that I sometimes use a black Sharpie felt-tip pen to make the stripes on inlaid bees. A couple of readers responded that applying shellac on top of the marker would dissolve the ink, leading to smudges. Having used this technique many times over the years without producing […]
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For my Executive Desk build, I needed to employ knock-down hardware where the center panel connects the two pedestals. Traditional knock-down hardware would work just fine but I wanted to explore a new option from Festool. If you have a Festool Domino, their connector system is a no-brainer way to make sturdy non-permanent connections, or at least if the ads are to be believed. Like anything Festool, the system isn’t cheap. But this Executive Desk is actually going to be my “lifetime” desk and build quality is a big priority, so I decided to give them a shot. The DF 500 Connectors have several configurations but I only needed one for my desk, and that’s what I’ll show you here.
From my limited experience with the connectors and this project, I have to say that these are the best/highest-quality knock-down connections I’ve ever seen. The parts aren’t likely to come loose any time soon, which is something that’s all too common with traditional cam-lock hardware (think IKEA). If you find yourself producing a lot of knock-down furniture or need this kind of joint for whatever reason, I think the system is a pretty solid investment.
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Both fast- and slow-growing wood present good opportunities. by Peter Follansbee Pages 26-28 Wood selection is an important part of any woodworking project. I sometimes feel like I take it to an extreme, like I’m some kind of oak snob. Sometimes people see pieces I reject and they can’t understand what’s wrong with me. Too much twist, a bow here or there. Not straight enough grain. I’m spoiled from decades […]
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Hand routers come in a wide range of types and sizes, wood and metal ones work the same and there are advantages as always to wood on wood. You shouldn’t think that the ones with adjustable depth control or superior to the pinch-adjust types nor that metal routers are better than wooden ones. They each […]
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We’ve made it three seasons without building a workbench for I Can Do That. It’s been requested and we’ve wanted to make one for a while but we just hadn’t gotten to it. But now it’s here. It features torsion boxes, unique joinery and home center materials – a perfect recipe for someone who wants to grow in their skillset. In this build, took full advantage of the table saw […]
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When I was 14 I made my first keyhole plate (pic here). Well, four of them actually. I used them to hang the wall shelf I was making for my parents. They are not hard to make and at 14 they would be considered especially fun. I replicated my schoolboy project recently for a video […]
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This week on PopWood Playback, I took a quick look at the Bosch GKF12V-25N palm router. My initial impressions are good. The unit has an impressive fit and finish and I found no trouble in edge routing simple chamfers and roundovers. I will conduct a significantly longer test for an upcoming review on the tool, but I was just too curious about this router and wanted to get my hands […]
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One thing I’m learning about more modern ways is that we should reconsider how we actually consider things rather than just accept or dismiss them. I suppose I am asking myself, “What lens are you looking at this through, Paul?” In times past I have changed my drink from say coffee to an alternative hot […]
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Editor’s note: If you have a trick of the trade that we can share, email me at david.lyell@fwmedia.com! This one comes from Andy Rawls, a furniture maker in Texas. You can find his work on his website, YouTube channel and Instagram. I recently shot a video for my Youtube channel showing how I restored a Stanley No. 4 hand plane. The process requires the clean up of several bolts and […]
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