#256–Sep/Oct 2016

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Fast Shellac Finish

How to build an attractive finish in three easy steps.

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Frame-and-Panel Cabinet: Get The Plan

Give your joinery skills a workout
Fast Shellac Finish

How to build an attractive finish in three easy steps.
Get better cuts with your planer

Eliminate tearout, banish snipe, and get smooth results every time
Bold joinery for casework

Make your cabinets stand out with clean, attractive through-tenons
Use vintage glass for cabinet doors

Old panes bring vibrancy to new furniture
Build a Simple Stool

Learn a fast, fun approach to making a comfortable, casual seat using hand skills.
Make Your Own Bandings

Once you master the basics, the only limit is your imagination
Turn oak into lace

Take a look at the painstaking process that goes into turning one of Pascal Oudet’s wafer-thin disks--from flattening, to turning, to sandblasting.
Lacework in Oak

When Pascal Oudet turns vessels from oak, he takes the material down to its very essence -- the medullary rays and growth rings--revealing a beautiful portrait of one of the…

Get started with your plunge router

Given the choice between a fixed-base router and a plunge model, Jeff Miller will take the plunge router every time. Because it can plunge in and out of the work,…

40 years, thousands of authors

Ever since Fine Woodworking was founded 40 years ago, we’ve been a place where a diverse group of woodworkers share their knowledge. We’ve welcomed all points of view, even conflicting…

Turn oak into lace

Take a look at the painstaking process that goes into turning one of Pascal Oudet’s wafer-thin disks--from flattening, to turning, to sandblasting.

Lacework in Oak

When Pascal Oudet turns vessels from oak, he takes the material down to its very essence -- the medullary rays and growth rings--revealing a beautiful portrait of one of the…

Wheeled lever mobilizes shop carts

Like many amateur woodworkers, I use my garage as a shop, so tools and machines must be pushed out of the way when not in use. I bought commercial mobile…
Make round tenons with a router

When a tenon loosened and broke on a favorite stool in our house, I wasn’t sure how to fix it. I don’t have a lathe, and it looked difficult to…
Drill-press shelf holds parts and catches wood chips

When using the drill press, I never have a good place to set aside multiple parts I am working on. So I made an adjustable shelf that mounts on the…
Curling Iron puts smooth curve in stringing

When doing curved stringing, I lightly clamp a Teflon-coated curling iron in my vise and use it to bend the strings before gluing them into place. The curling iron works…

Straight Talk on Straight Bits

FWW Drawing Board
Tenons on the Bandsaw

There's more than one way to skin a tenon... huh?
Mix Your Own Shellac

How to make a batch of shellac from fresh flakes.
Turn Your Planer into a Jointer

How to use a shopmade sled to flatten boards in your planer.