Rob Johnstone
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It’s Show Time!
Every summer all the cool kids in the woodworking world get together for a big woodworking trade show somewhere or another. This year, it is the AWFS [Association of Woodworking and Furnishings Suppliers®] in Las Vegas, and your intrepid woodworking editor will be there with bells on. (The bells are how my staff keeps track of me — I am easily distracted and tend to get lost.)
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Pushing Your Limits
Last time out, I asked all of you which woodworking style rang your bell, and it did not take long before my email bell was chiming away. As usual, you were free with your opinions: you can peruse a sampling on the Feedback page. While the variety of answers is no surprise, it is inspiring.
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Which Style is Yours?
Somehow I got on a clothing email list called “Your Style.” Now, I don’t want to be hypercritical, but none of the clothes that I’ve seen there actually are my style (such as it is), and most of them don’t look like they’d fit in any case. It makes you wonder why they send me the email at all. But in the convoluted workings of my mind, it did spark another question that I have for you all. What style of woodworking do you find the most pleasing?
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How to Cut Dovetail Keys
How to create attractive and useful dovetail keys on a router table with a simple dovetail jig and dovetail bit.
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Outdoor Woodworking
It’s warming up outside, and I’ve got a couple of hot projects on my list of things to build. The first is a stand for my little gas grill. I live alone and often grill my dinner out on my deck during the short summer season. My kids bought me a really small gas grill that is perfect for those gastronomic episodes — but it needs a stand to get it up to counter height. That’s number one. The second is a picnic table.
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Woodworkers Who Lend a Helping Hand
In this issue’s Industry Interview, Chris Marshall profiles a program from Craftsman Tools wherein woodworkers use their skills and tools to help out people in need. Woodworker’s Journal often donates tools used in our magazine’s tool tests to Habitat for Humanity. Woodworkers, it goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway), are good people.
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Relief at Last
This has been — and I say this without the least bit of reservation — the most miserable, drawn-out, bone-chilling, mind-numbing and just plain icky winter I have experienced in my 57 years on this planet. Every time it looked like we were done with the snow and ice, we were sucker punched to the tune of 8 inches of wet, heavy snow. Spring could just not beat the winter back.
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Staying Power
Last time out, I asked you, the eZine faithful, what was the oldest tool you had lying around in your shop. I thought to myself, “Self, I bet they have a few oldsters lying around.”
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Buying Lumber from a Local Sawmill
Woodworker’s Journal editor-in-chief Rob Johnstone visits a few of the sawmills in his neck of the woods to show a glimpse of the milling process and give you an idea of the quality of wood you can receive from these small businesses.
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Build a Slab-Topped Sofa Table Using Loose Tenon Joinery
Thick pieces of wood sourced from a local sawmill provide a sturdy base for a large slab-topped sofa table, put together with loose tenon joinery.
