Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Yes, a Moisture Meter is Essential Equipment

A moisture meter is a device that lets you see the future. It allows you to avoid mistakes where your furniture will – literally – fall to pieces. But convincing woodworkers to buy one is like trying to push water uphill. This weekend, Brendan Gaffney and I were each working on some chair projects and got on the topic of moisture meters. Brendan has an idea for how to make […]

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Monday, August 14, 2017

No Surprises

Your responses to the last blog came as no surprise. As people accept the ever more mundane of mass making, skills automatically become dumbed down. Manufacturers that once had loyalty on a more local level have gradually sold out and what we thought was still being made domestically by local skills was hidden behind bland …

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The ‘Dugout Chair’ Begins With a Rotted Stump

For as long as I have been writing about woodworking, I have wanted to build a dugout chair. I first encountered the form in one of the many furniture books we had a Popular Woodworking Magazine. Soon after I started working at the magazine in 1996 I began poring through the books whenever I had a spare moment – attempting to get up to speed with all the different furniture […]

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How to Install Blum Tandem Slides with 2 Jigs

Blum Tandem slides being installed with jig

Blum Tandem slides are a fabulous innovation for built-in cabinetry with drawers and pantry pull-outs. They’re smooth, silent, invisible and they come with a little person inside who pulls the drawer shut for you. (OK, not really, but there might as well be someone in there considering how well they shut themselves.) As with most innovative hardware, there’s a range of accessories you can buy to ease installation. When I […]

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Dying Crafts. What to Do?

I listened to a BBC Radio 4 programme with a presenter named Jenny Murray talking about 17 crafts on the ‘Red Endangered List’, where certain crafts are in danger of disappearing. Of course we have seen crafts disappear because there was no use for them anymore. John Seymour wrote a book about the Forgotten Crafts …

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Sunday, August 13, 2017

The One With Cremona -Friday Live

We have a special guest for today’s Friday Live PM Edition: Matt Cremona. Be sure to check out Matt’s website for more details and who he is and why his hair is so cool! Here’s the topic and Q&A rundown:

0:34 – Special Guests
2:21 – Beers of choice for tonight
3:56 – Denver area maker meetup
6:01 – Presents from Jen
8:37 – Dust collection alert adapter
10:35 – What did you use to remove the coating on your new chisels?
12:18 – Can you tell me about a brand of panel saw or what TPI to get?
13:29 – What brand of sandpaper do you use/does brand matter?
16:18 – Do you have any tips for replacing jointer knives?
18:06 – On your Blacker house chair, did you use a pattern for the inlay or do it free form?
20:48 – Where do you see your business 5 years from now?
25:39 – Can Matt describe what hair products he uses to grow 4″ of hair in one night?
26:49 – What advantages do floor standing planers have over benchtop models?
28:44 – What species is referred to as ironwood?
29:09 – Are dominos strong enough for a trestle table?
29:30 – With dado zero clearance inserts, do you just make it as wide as possible, or buy multiple inserts?
34:21 – Do you trust your taps in knotty pine and plywood? What size of tap do you recommend for 4/4 stock?
36:41 – What skill or technique are you working toward improving the most?
40:38 – What’s the deal with square drive screws?
42:00 – What’s your favorite woodworking feature?
48:05 – Where can I get some good online instruction for a handplane?
49:10 – Is there something you continue to do but know there is a better method?
51:29 – Advice for a hand tool cabinet?
52:52 – Should I sell my kapex since I generally use my carvex?
55:00 – How do you know the correct grit to sand up to?
57:15 – When will we see Nicole using the lathe?
59:05 – What’s the best way to reduce a fuzzy surface coming off a benchtop planer?
1:00:41 – Does endgrain always take stain darker than the edgegrain?
1:03:30 – Can I use 1/4″ wood as a back panel to a cabinet?
1:05:27 – Why aren’t you doing a roubo tool cabinet with Matt?
1:09:02 – Would sycamore or red oak be good for a roubo?
1:10:00 – Is a hot dog a sandwich or not?
1:10:33 – Is the market for artisan chisels and hand tools already saturated?
1:14:38 – Can you offer advice to use a tablesaw to edge joint material?
1:15:47 – Do you know any youtubers who sell mallets?
1:17:55 – When are some instances you’d choose water based finishes over oil based?
1:20:44 – New Patreon supporters
1:21:13 – Guild project winner

coming soon

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Week in Review – August 7-12

This week we released a brand new episode of I Can Do That! In this episode, Chad Stanton walks us through a hall table build using lumber purchased at the local home center. The project is stunning and we hope that it encourages our viewers to leave their excuses behind and to build something incredible! You can watch the video and download the plans on the I Can Do That […]

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