Oct 032012
 
October Wood News: Ready to Read!
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The newest issue of Wood News is out and ready for you to read! We’ve got a lot of great stuff for you to read this month, starting with a very entertaining Down to Earth Woodworking column about the beards of Woodworking, where Steve Johnson manages to equate the increase of facial hair in high […]

Oct 012012
 
The Plane Facts: The Lie-Nielsen #103 Block Plane
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The Lie-Nielsen #103 Standard-Angle Block Plane is the brother to the #102 Low-Angle Block Plane. The #103 plane has the iron bedded at 20 degrees, which along with the 25-degree bevel that comes on the iron, presents a 45-degree cutting angle to the wood (being a bevel-up plane). For those who aren’t hand-tool aficionados, this is the same cutting […]

Sep 282012
 
The Highland Woodworker: Moulthrop Bowls, Maloof Furniture and more!
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This all new episode of The Highland Woodworker is now available for you to view! In this episode, our host Charles Brock takes a look at an iconic woodturning family, the Moulthrops. This three-generation family of woodturners will amaze and inspire you. We’ve also got a great tour of President Jimmy Carter’s collection of Maloof […]

Sep 272012
 
Morton's Shop: Adding Support
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The underside supports (aprons and batons) are there to help keep the top flat.  I added them with screws and liquid hide glue. Unfortunately the batons couldn’t go straight across the full width because of table slides that need to pull out at each end. I made table slides for the leaves using Accuride Heavy […]

Sep 262012
 
The Highland Woodturner: An Afternoon With My Chainsaw
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In this month’s issue of The Highland Woodturner, Leslie Struthers tells the hilarious and all-too-familiar tale of working with temperamental tools. Ok – it’s Sunday afternoon – my chores are done, time to tackle sawing logs for natural edge bowl blanks. Add gas. Add bar oil. Set the choke to full. Pull…! Pull…! Pull…! Pull…! […]

Sep 252012
 
Morton's Shop: Adding an Edge (Using the Domino)
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I had a recent post about using the Festool Domino as an alignment tool when edge-gluing boards.  Here’s another shot of how I use it – this time adding a narrow 2″ border piece.  The long grain edge joint doesn’t need any additional strength, but the dominoes help keep everything aligned as I put on […]