- How-To
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- Drilling
- Shaping
- Joining and Fastening
- Gluing and Clamping
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- Installing Hardware
- Making Repairs
- Tips and Techniques
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How-To
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Carving Texture and Patterns into Bowls
One of the design limitations you run up against as you turn a bowl is that you end up with absolutely circular details. Unless you take a spin at adding a bit of shape and texture by carving
Woodworking Skills
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PROJECT: Steamer Trunk Dresser
When is a wooden trunk not really a trunk? When it’s actually a four-drawer dresser. Wood slats and reproduction hardware add to the attractive design.
Project Design
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PROJECT: Making a Ladderback Chair
Building a chair is always a challenge regardless of your shop’s size. This ladderback is a classic project that will make you proud.
Milling
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Portable Sawmills: Lumber from Local Trees
Tired of paying high prices for lumber at the lumberyard? A portable sawmill could be your ticket to getting quality wood for your next project at a more affordable price.
Cutting
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PROJECT: Shop-Made Band Saw Fence
Make a low-cost band saw fence with this free plan from the magazine.
Drilling
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PROJECT: Cylindrical and Round Object Drilling Jig
A jig to steady round objects, and let you successfully drill holes in them.
Shaping
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Create Your Own Drawer Pulls
The author’s clever set of production techniques creates a line of bow-shaped wooden drawer pulls in a hurry!
Joining and Fastening
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Today’s Wood Screw Technology
What kind of screws should you use on your project? From heads to drives, points to threads, platings to coatings, we show you everything you need to know about the world of modern screws.
Gluing and Clamping
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Veneering with a Vacuum Pump
A vacuum pump and veneer bag is a fully portable system that can be used anywhere. Here, learn some simple veneering techniques.
Finishing
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Milk Paint: An Ancient Finish for the Modern Age
As old as the pyramids and as modern as the “green” environmental movement — milk paint may be an old-is-new finishing option for your woodworking shop.
Installing Hardware
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PROJECT: Silverware Chest
This classic walnut silverware chest employs solid brass catches and hinges to help create an heirloom project in a small shop setting.
Making Repairs
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Working Turning Into Your Daily Life
The lathe should be a go-to tool for home repair and improvement, as woodturning expert Ernie Conover explains.
Tips and Techniques
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Cleaning Blades Is Easy as Pie
Cleaning saw blades is a necessary, but messy, chore. One of our authors has a simple solution to keep things a little bit neater.
Woodturning
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Making Spindles From “Riven” Green Wood
Turning spindles from green wood is a time-honored tradition. So is riving blanks from a tree trunk … our expert explains it all.
Tricks of the Trade
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Keep Track of Dull Cutter Edges
This reader found a good way to tell at a glance which of his carbide-insert cutting tools were still sharp and which ones needed replacing.
Workshop Organization and Storage
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Setting Up a Turning Shop
If you’re thinking of getting started in woodturning, here are some great guidelines. Our expert breaks down the “must-have” tools from the “nice to have” and even includes a few of his “dream shop” favorites.
Jigs and Tools
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VIDEO: Cutting Dado Slots with a Plunge Router
Learn how to make a simple router jig for cutting dado slots. This simple jig makes it easy to cut accurate dadoes with a router.
Safety
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A Quick Look at the SawStop Model JSS Jobsite Saw
Now, the company’s blade brake technology can protect end users wherever they need to cut wood — in the workshop, on the jobsite or out in the yard.
Tools & Supplies
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TTS Tooltechnic Systems Acquires SawStop
SawStop under new ownership; management and operations to continue in Oregon headquarters.
What's In Store
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Bosch Multi-Grip Brushless Reciprocating Saw
Advanced handle design, brushless motor and orbital action deliver maximum comfort and corded performance from a cordless recip saw.
Tool Reviews
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What’s New in Connected Tools?
Five mobile device apps let you tap into the latest batteries and tools like never before.
Industry Interviews
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Festool Begins Guide Rail Production in America
Festool USA launches new production line to manufacture track saw guide rails at its Lebanon, Indiana, headquarters.
Blogs
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Titebond Expert Discusses Chemistry of, Uses for Quick and Thick Glue
Bob Behnke, technical service manager for Titebond, shares the chemistry and best uses for Titebond’s newest PVA wood glue option, Quick and Thick.
Q & A
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Best Finish for Spalted Maple Outdoor Bar Top?
What finish can protect and strengthen my spalted maple bar top for outdoor use without changing its color?
Editor's Blogs
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Join Our Social Media Communities
Everyday we share a mix of new videos, expert answers, tool updates, reader projects, and plans.
Contributing Bloggers
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Saving Bees with a Seed Skep
Bees don’t actually live in this wooden beehive or skep, but it does hold something that will help sustain a healthy bee population.
Today's Woodworker
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Owain Harris: Serious Furniture (with Whimsy)
Owain Harris builds built-ins and studio furniture in New Hampshire, where he adds asymmetry and whimsy to furniture that is “serious but doesn’t take itself too seriously.”
Reader's Project Gallery
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Musical-Themed Model Projects
A reader finds success building a model piano for a music school, so he takes the lessons learned into making another music-themed project.
Plan Library
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Making an Artist’s Pencil Box
This project, originally featured in Today’s Woodworker back in 1994, will make a perfect gift for an aspiring young artist. The design holds a collection of pencils and an eraser, and the top locks everything in place.
eZine Latest Issue
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Wooden Boats: eZine Readers’ Builds and Dreams
eZine readers respond to Rob’s editorial on wooden boats with their boat builds and their dreams.
Magazine Latest Issue
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Woodworker’s Journal – July/August 2017
A Prairie Style Box and an Odds and Ends Cabinet can both fulfill a variety of functions, while our Picnic Basket — with wheels! – is ready to hit the road.
Feedback
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Problems “Fixed” with Wood
Woodworking readers share stories of fixing all sorts of problems with wood. (As the saying goes, if your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails.)
eZine Editorial
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All is Fair
Rob visits county and state fairs, judging woodworking and eating fair food.
Issue Information
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Woodworker’s Journal – July/August 2017 Issue Preview
Find projects for your home, your shop and your summer excursions in the July/August issue of Woodworker’s Journal.
More on the Web
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July/August 2017 What’s in Store Round-up
Whirlpool Gladiator GarageWorks EZ Connect Rack Shelving MicroJig MatchFit Dado Stop Cutting Half-Laps: Crosscutting: Magically Mother of Pearl and Crystal…
Trade Shows
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SuperMax Tools Launches 16-32 Drum Sander
Sporting a patented Quick Adjust Lever that raises and lowers the drum assembly without cranking, a built-in digital readout and newly designed turbo vented dust port to increase dust collection efficiency, SuperMax’s new 16-32 model will sand panels or slabs up to 32 in. wide in two passes.
Issue Preview
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July/August 2017 Issue Preview
Find projects for your home, your shop and your summer excursions in the July/August issue of Woodworker’s Journal.
Readers' Projects
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From Oak Trees … to Lumber … to Projects
Herb Brodie builds woodworking projects from oak trees downed on his property: trees to lumber. Click through to read more…
Not yet categorized
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VIDEO: Plow Planes
Ernie Conover introduces you to plow planes. You learn how to set up and correctly use a plow plane to cut grooves for drawers and panels.
AWFS 2015
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American Fabric Filter – AWFS 2015
Get the best performance from your dust collector by upgrading to a custom filter bag.
Premium Content
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PROJECT: Make a Dovetailed Puzzle Box
This dovetailed puzzle box is challenging to make and fun to solve! Our expert’s scrap stock turns into a baffling dovetailed box challenge.
Woodworker's Journal Back Issue Archive
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Woodworker’s Journal – May/June 2017
Projects Include: Porch Swing, Hanging Herb Garden, Barrel-shaped Birdhouse, Graceful Bar Cart and Dehumidification Kiln.
Premium Plans
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PROJECT: Workshop Odds and Ends Cabinet
Store small assortments in this handy-dandy shop helper. (Who doesn’t need a bit more organization in the shop?) Building it with a specialty blade that cuts a hinged miter joint adds some extra fun to this simple weekend project.
IWF 2016
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Three Innovative New Products from Titebond
Titebond introduces three new products at IWF 2016 in Atlanta. Learn more about Titebond Quick & Thick Glue, TiteWrap, and Titebrush.
AWFS 2017
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GREX Boosts Pinner Power, Launches New Brad Nailer
GREX’s Raymond Wong discusses updated and more powerful P650LX 23-gauge pin nailer, ideal for smaller compressor use.
