Techniques

Hand-carved wooden canoe in workshop.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

How to Make a Travisher

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

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Woodworking tools on a wooden workbench.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Edge-To-Edge Joinery

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

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Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Historical Furniture Finishes. Part 1

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

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Wooden dovetail joint with brass screws in corner.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

A New Twist on Dovetails

Dovetails. A byword for carpentry perfection. Mastering them has long been considered a rite of passage for those reaching the

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