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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

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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"

• 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,…