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Arts and Crafts Style Queen Beds
Last summer I started building two queen sized beds, incorporating Arts and Crafts elements. I used quarter sawn white oak, using 6/4 thickness. I resawed and sized the panels myself.…
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Arts and Crafts Style Desk
My son loves to play computer games, and is reluctant to do his homework. He needed a place to do both tasks, however, so I designed and built this arts…
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Lonnie Bird Style Workbench
My new workbench is based on the ones in Lonnie Bird's shop, with a few alterations. The finished bench is 37" high, 8 feet long, and 26" wide. The vise…
Discussion Forum
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Bending Wood
I've been reading Michael Fortune's article on bending wood in the latest FWW, and I'm considering using his methods for an upcoming project--a bowfront sofa table. It seems more adventageous…
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Rotten Pumpkin Stain on Dresser
A friend of mine has a dresser with two 3-4" round stains where she let pumpkins sit and rot. She and her husband have cleaned the stains as best they…
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Mold on Stickered Wood
In mid November, I had a black walnut tree cut into 6/4 planks. The wood is stacked and stickered in my shed. I'm now beginning to see light gray/whitish fluffy…
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Norm then and now
I'm a long time fan of Norm Abram, even now as I wish he would have used and featured hand tools more in his show. This week I was browsing…
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LN 103
I've apparently bumped or dropped my LN 103 bronze block plane, because there is a raised bump at the very back edge of the sole. It's very slight, but it's…
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Good Fortune
A member of my church just dropped by and gave me his old copies of FWW magazine--from 1975 through 1995--every issue and they're in great shape. I'm thrilled but my…
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Chisel Problem
A while back I bought a Stanley 720 3/4" chisel on eBay. It needed to be ground and sharpened. My sharpening method is to hollow grind on my Tormek and…
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sound in the shop
Last Christmas, my sister in law gave me a CD player/radio for the shop. The CD player works just fine, but the radio will not receive any stations clearly (I've…
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Newest Dovetail Saw from Lee Valley
Checkit out! It even has an endorsement from Derek! Tom http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?p=62708&c=2 "Notice that at no time do my fingers leave my hand"
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Wren are you coming home
Over the last three weeks or so, every time I go to use the planer, and unfold the infeed/outfeed tables (Ridgid 13" portable) I encounter a pile of pine straw,…