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Building boxes is probably one of the fundamental tasks in most woodworking. Want to build a chest? Its a box filled with other boxes. A dining table? A box on legs. A Morris Chair? A…
Take any joinery and throw in an angle and immediately people panic. Now up the ante and make that a compound angle and most woodworkers curl up into a ball and cry. The mortise and…
The best thing to do with a heavily twisted board is to put it back on the rack at the lumber yard and find a flatter one. This isn’t always possible though and into every…
There is a whole world of unusual joinery out there and this rising dovetail is one of the ones that seems impossible when seen assembled. The dovetail acts like a wedge preventing the boards from…
The dovetail joint is placed on a pedestal for so many woodworkers. The irony is that the Mortise & Tenon does most of the heavy lifting in furniture. However nothing holds together a corner joint…
The Fastest, Easiest Way I Know to Flatten a Board By Hand Every board is unique. Yet when you learn about how to hand plane a board flat you hear about a process of planing…
Hand planing a board flat and square on 2 faces is usually all that is needed for most projects. The opposite face and edge can usually just be made pretty (or not). But sometimes you…
Using a specific Resawing Frame Saw makes the process of resawing fast and efficient without the capacity limitations that come with the average bandsaw. Whether you need to turn a thicker board into 2 thinner…
Milling your lumber flat and square is a fundamental skill that is an essential step prior to any joinery. Squaring the edges of those boards may even be the most important aspect of the milling…
The Stanley #5 plane is colloquially called the Jack plane because it is a competent plane for many different tasks. I have often stated that it can be the only plane you use and this…
