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Shop Class Lesson
Guiding Your Router, Part 2
Guiding Your Router, Part 2
LESSON 3: Understand the systems available for guiding a workpiece past the bit of a router mounted in a router table.
Featured Technique
Making Tongue-and-Groove Joints
Making Tongue-and-Groove Joints
What do you get when you cross two rabbets with a dado? A simple, multipurpose joint you'll make again and again.
Finishing 101
Wipe-on Finishes and More
Wipe-on Finishes and More
Here's a rundown of the various common finishes and some of the best application strategies for each.
Woodworking
Term of the Day

Edge Grain
Boards cut from the tree such that the growth rings run perpendicular to the face and parallel to the edges; also called vertical grain. Quartersawn wood displays edge grain.
Wood of the Week

Woodworking Blog
This may be the most complicated woodworking project we’ve ever seen — but man, is it cool. (Just make sure you’re standing back when some of those secret compartments open!)   http://www.youtube.com/embed/MKikHxKeodA?feature=player_embedded

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Intarsia
Getting Started with Intarsia
Getting Started with Intarsia
Intarsia involves cutting, carving, and shaping individual pieces of a pattern, then gluing them together. Using different species of woods and varying their thickness, color, and grain can produce dramatic effects with depth and perspective.
Featured Woodworker
Nathan Hunter: Iconic Images in Fine Furniture
Nathan Hunter certainly got an early introduction to woodworking, and eventually became a designer and builder of fine furniture. However, that does not mean there was a straight path from his first exposure to his current love. Music and film both got in their licks before woodworking managed to lure him back.
Carving
Treasures of the Sierra Madre
Treasures of the Sierra Madre
Fire-breathing crocodiles and flying giraffes roam folk art museums and shops around the world. They are alebrijes - hand-carved wooden figures from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Marquetry
Mastering Marquetry
Mastering Marquetry
Anderson Ranch Arts Center has a "great atmosphere, to be with all these inspired and inspiring people," says Woodworker's Journal apprentice LiLi Jackson.

Turning
Chuck It!
Chuck It!
Investing in a good quality chuck will increase your options for making bowls, especially with all that free wood available from friends and family. Have fun, and remember ... keep your tools sharp!
Scroll Sawing
Adjust Your Scroll Saw Table for Square Cuts
Adjust Your Scroll Saw Table for Square Cuts
Try this simple alignment procedure to ensure that you get square cuts with your scroll saw every time.

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