
Power Tool Tips & Tricks
Over the years, I have used or developed many tricks or shortcuts on my shop machines for quicker, more accurate

Over the years, I have used or developed many tricks or shortcuts on my shop machines for quicker, more accurate

Rob Porcaro shares some handy tips for tuning your jointer. Jointer parallelism After writing blog posts on jointer-planer combination machines,

What is a travisher? In this article, I’m going to show you how to make my favourite tool for shaping

James Duxbury has a gripping idea for easy component sanding. The sanding of small wooden objects can be very difficult

If you want good strong joints the traditional mortise and tenon is the way to go. Here’s how to machine

Rob Porcaro shares his shop-proven techniques for producing accurate joint surfaces and aligning them for glue-up. The fundamental simplicity of

Yannick Chastang investigates 18th-century finishing techniques. Introduction The following two-part series examines the details of furniture finishes that were typically

In this article we will be looking at the polissoir. These were commonly used tools for applying finishes to furniture