#281-Mar/Apr 2020
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Online Extras from FWW Issue #281
Links and videos mentioned in Fine Woodworking issue #281
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A Stunning Milk-Paint Finish
Elia Bizzarri shows how to layer black milk paint over red to create a rich, layered look on his Windsor chairs.
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Designer's Notebook: Playing with angles
Design inspiration could strike at any time, so furniture maker Jamie Herman makes sure to keep a sketchbook handy to record his ideas while they're still warm.
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Arts and Crafts chest
Nancy Hiller builds a time-tested and versatile chest originally designed by Ernest Gimson.
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Veneered waterfall edging
Craig Thibodeau demonstrates how to create crossgrain banding that starts on the face of a panel and flows outward, away from center, and over the edge.
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Breadboard Ends: 4 Ways
Gary Rogowski demonstrates, step by step, four methods for keeping tabletops and wide panels flat.
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Elegant Entry Table
With tapered legs, split aprons, and profiled top, Mason McBrien's table was designed to showcase the lightness and straight grain of the American white ash.
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How to cut coves on the tablesaw
Instead of turning to a router or a shaper, Will Neptune produces various deep, wide coves using the tablesaw.
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Handwork: Build a saw bench
Megan Fitzpatrick builds a pair of versatile saw benches to make it easier to crosscut and rip boards, drill, finish, help support workpieces, and more.
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From the Bench: The carpenter's son
A carpenter's son and his father share a lifelong love of woodworking, and in the process learn from each other.
Articles
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Sheet Goods Table with Built-in Panel Lifter
Adding a pivoting lift bracket and locking wheels amps up the value of this big rolling table.
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Workshop Tip: Reversible planing bar works two ways
A toothed stop stabilizes awkward work, while a flat bar on the other side makes changing and repositioning boards easier.
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Workshop Tip: Silicone baking mat secures waterstones
Nonslip surface keeps diamond plates and waterstones from slipping.
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Workshop Tip: A simple wingnut improves any toggle clamp
Replacing the top nut with a wingnut makes adjustments easy
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Workshop Tip: 1-2-3 block for crosscuts and more
Machinist's tool serves as crosscut stop on tablesaw and also as a quick and precise setup device elsewhere in the shop.
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Workshop Tip: Reverse your rubber sanding block for curves
The curved back of a regular sanding block makes a great tool for smoothing concave surfaces.
Workshop Tips
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Tool review: PantoRouter
Rollie Johnson reviews this powerful tool that creates perfect joinery.
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Tool Review: DFM Dowel Plate
Mike Pekovich takes a look at a great dowel plate that's sold at a great price.
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Tool review: EZtension Bandsaw Tension Gauge
Rollie Johnon reviews a clever bandsaw tension gauge.
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Tool review: EHK KL Trigger Clamps by Bessey
David Douyard reviews Bessey's new one-handed clamps.
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Tool review: Morakniv 162 and 164 Hook Knives
Dawson Moore takes a look at the much-anticipated update of two classic hook knives.
