Chippendale Console
Chippendale Console: Steve Bisco carves a console bracket from Chippendale’s Director. To commemorate Thomas Chippendale’s 300th birthday I thought it…
A Furniture-Quality Custom Frame
A Furniture-Quality Custom Frame: Cutting joints by hand challenges your skills. Charles Mak illustrates the technique of cutting a half-lap…
Woven Top Stool – Part 2
Woven Top Stool – Part 2: Lee Stoffer weaves the seat for his stool. To ensure the seat weave was…
Perfect Pieces with a Shooting Board
Perfect Pieces with a Shooting Board: Before laying out joinery and assembling a project, it’s important to ensure the ends…
Ornamental Turning Made Easy – more
Ornamental Turning Made Easy – more: Chris Hart uses his Petal pattern to decorate a trinket box. I attempt to…
Butterfly Relief Carving
Butterfly Relief Carving: Andrew Thomas demonstrates how to produce a low-relief carving of a butterfly on a leaf. The butterfly…
Tricks of the Trade – Perfect Veneer Seams
Tricks of the Trade – Perfect Veneer Seams: No guillotine? No problem. Ramon Valdez uses a dedicated crosscut jig to…
Cleaning and Testing a DeWalt 735 Planer
Cleaning and Testing a DeWalt 735 Planer: The last in the series about checking out a used DeWalt DW735 planer,…
Woven Top Stool – Part 1
Woven Top Stool – Part 1: Lee Stoffer tells us how to make our own comfortable stool. Having a comfortable…
Workshop Tips
Workshop Tips: Kurt Hertzog gives some top tips on safety and efficiency in the workshop. Over the years turners usually…