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Shop Class Lesson
Guiding Your Router, Part 2LESSON 3: Understand the systems available for guiding a workpiece past the bit of a router mounted in a router table. |
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Featured Technique
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Finishing 101
Wipe-on Finishes and MoreHere's a rundown of the various common finishes and some of the best application strategies for each. |
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Woodworking
Term of the Day
Edge GrainBoards 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. |
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Wood of the Week
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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 IntarsiaIntarsia 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. |
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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. |
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Carving
Treasures of the Sierra MadreFire-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. |
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Marquetry
Mastering MarquetryAnderson Ranch Arts Center has a "great atmosphere, to be with all these inspired and inspiring people," says Woodworker's Journal apprentice LiLi Jackson. |
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Turning
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! |
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Scroll Sawing
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