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The Cheap, Good Wood
The words cheap and good usually aren’t used together when the subject is wood for woodworking. But in the case of the Southern yellow pines, this wording is well-suited.
Satisfaction from the Simplest of Tools
Cleaning up the surface of his workbench with a scraper was a good chance for Chris Marshall to get back to basics with one of woodworking's simplest tools.
Tile-Topped Coffee Table
This reader-submitted coffee table features hand-made joinery and a clever use of tile for the tabletop. I wanted to share this project that I'm so proud of: a custom built coffee table with marble stone tiles on top. To use stone tiles for the top of a table is a great way to give furniture [...]
The Sad State of Workbenches (Part 2): What’s Wrong Nowadays
Most woodworkers think they are buying what they need and have never used a proper workbench. Ernie Conover explains why.
Airplane Bed
This reader's project incorporates some clever "interactive" functionality and plenty of storage.
Roads and Fences: How Adventurous Are You?
Recently, a reader wrote in to get some advice about building a chair. Our answers took decidedly different approaches to a larger and broader topic of building chairs.
The Sad State of Workbenches (Part 1): What Used to Be Right
The second half of the 20th Century has seen a gradual decline of the workbench. Here's a look back at the zenith of bench design.
Gifts from the Woodworker’s Journal Staff
Woodworker's Journal staff members turn to a certain favorite hobby when the holidays come around. Here are some of our projects given as gifts this year.
Be Careful What You Wish For…
Over this past year I found myself orchestrating the filming of DVD series. I also nearly had a nervous breakdown. How did this happen? It's a long story...
Christmas Wood and the “Poor Man’s Ebony”
Tim Knight shares how American holly came to be known as the Christmas Wood and Poor Man's Ebony
MicroFence’s Rich Wedler and Friends “Sawing” Holiday Tunes
With the holidays in full swing, here are a couple of holiday tunes we recently ran across on Micro Fence's website to help keeps spirits bright.
January/February 2012 Issue Preview
Here's a look at what you'll find in our January/February 2012 issue.
Skill Builder: Hand Cut Mortise and Tenons
Deepen the Mark
If you're doing woodworking on a shoestring budget, you'll be happy to know that the only tools you need to cut tight-fitting mortise and tenon joints are a square, knife and marking gauge, a fine-toothed saw, and couple of sharp chisels and mallet.
Wipe-on Finishes and More

Paint Pads
Most coatings are formulated to work best with a particular type of applicator, but some work nicely with more than one. Knowing which coatings favor which application techniques can help you get better results. To that end, here's a rundown of the various common finishes and some of the best application strategies for each.
Staining and Dyeing


Although color change is its primary function, stain can also intensify or diminish the grain of the wood, depending on the type of wood and the type of stain you use. Therefore, it is important to understand how different types of stains work.
Skill Builder: Miter Joints

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There are lots of different ways to cut parts for a basic miter-joined frame: with a handsaw and miter box , with a table saw and miter gauge or special miter jig, or using a dedicated crosscut saw, such as a radial-arm saw, compound-miter saw or sliding compound miter saw.
Sealers and Pore Fillers

Sanding Sealer
Strictly speaking, any finish that forms a film on wood can be used as a sealer. Some coatings are so good at this task by themselves that they are called "self-sealing" finishes. Other finishes are not, and they benefit from special sealers.
Coloring Redux: Glaze and Toner
Antique-looking panel
Another common method of adding color to wood after it has been sealed is with glaze. You can use glaze to highlight carvings or flutes, create sunbursts and cameos, turn a painted surface into antique white, add age to wood, or even create patterns like fake wood grain and marble.
Skill Builder: Dovetail Joints

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Although it's an involved process, few woodworking tasks will bring you the sense of pride you'll get from hand cutting a dovetail joint. Like most operations, there are lots of different ways to cut these joints.
Making the Most of Your Router Bits: Glue Joint Bit

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Gluing boards together to form larger panels is something of a mystery to novice woodworkers. Boards don't line up properly, and clamps can tend to force the edges out of alignment. Boards may have a slight bow along their length and just try to get a clamp into the middle of your panel to fix it. There is a wide array of joining systems out there to help, but my personal favorite is still the Glue Joint router bit.
Making the Most of Your Router Bits: Dish Carving Bit

Dish Carving Bit
There are many projects that require the milling of pockets. Antique game tables nearly always had dished-out areas for candles and game chips. Signmakers often raise letters by removing the background around them, and all sorts of serving trays, bowls and stands are dished out to provide a rim for keeping things in.
Making the Most of Your Router Bits: Multi Profile Bit

Multi Profile Bit
The Multi Profile Bit is the first in a series that will cover router bits made to help you perform difficult router tasks more easily, the proper ways to set up & use them, and tips for getting the best results.
Making the Most of Your Router Bits: The Butterfly Spline Bit
Butterfly-Bit
At first glance, the Butterfly Spline Bit seems like a very simple and limited use tool. But look closer and you can find a lot of useful applications for these splines. The bit cuts a butterfly profile, essentially two dovetail keys joined at the smaller width.
Making the Most of Your Router Bits: Not Just a Door Bit
Door Bit Beauty Shot
I used to teach router table classes and the most popular part was, hands down, making cabinet doors. Virtually every bit manufacturer offers door making bits in several profiles. These come in a set, where the mating profiles are two separate bits, and a single bit form, where both cuts are contained in one bit. The bit I'm using is the single cutter type.
Making the Most of Your Router Bits: Sash Bit

Many manufacturers make sash bits, but most are designed as 'stub' tenon bits, working more like a stile and rail door set. The Freud set is designed to make long tenons in the joint connections, making a vastly stronger window. Because of this, the bits require a bit more work, but the extra effort is well worth it.
Lamello Clamex P Offers Speedier Installation
Lamello Clamex P Offers Speedier Installation
Chris Marshall gets a walkthrough of the new Lamello Clamex P system.
Rockler Introduces Bench Cookies & Tapering Jig
Rockler Introduces Bench Cookies & Tapering Jig
LiLi Jackson talks with Rockler Woodworking & Hardware about some of their innovative new products at AWFS Fair in Las Vegas.
"No-Measure", Evenly Spaced Dadoes
"No-Measure", Evenly Spaced Dadoes
Chris Marshall shows a trick for perfectly spaced dados without time-consuming measurements. This trick applies to a table saw blade organizer featured in the September/October 2010 issue, but can be easily adapted for many other projects.
Making Tambour
Making Tambour
Sandor Nagyszalanczy talks you through - and shows you, too - the detailed how-to's of building tambour like the kind used in the Tambour-Topped Box from the April 2011 issue of Woodworker's Journal.
Amana Overviews In-Groove Insert Bits
In-Groove CNC insert cutters are overviewed by Amana Tool's Frank Misiti at the 2011 AWFS Fair. Woodworker's Journal Magazine takes a closer look at this innovative and cost-effective tooling solution.
Apollo Sprayers Makes Precision HVLP Finishing Possible
Apollo Sprayers Makes Precision HVLP Finishing Possible
LiLi Jackson talks with Apollo Sprayers about the features of one of their new products at AWFS Fair in Las Vegas.
Powermatic Fades to Black for 90th Anniversary
Barry Schwaiger introduces seven classic Powermatic machines with novel gold-on-black paint scheme to celebrate company's 90th anniversary year at the 2011 AWFS Fair. He discusses other anniversary benefits as well to Woodworker's Journal Magazine.
An Exclusive Look at Woodline's DadoMax Routing Jig
An Exclusive Look at Woodline's DadoMax Routing Jig
Chris Marshall learns all about Woodline's exciting new DadoMax Routing Jig at AWFS Fair in Las Vegas.
June 2011 Issue Preview
June 2011 Issue Preview
For a quick preview of what's in our June 2011 issue, here's a short video that covers the highlights.
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