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Close Grain: Portable Workbench, part 3
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Woodworking in the digital age. Friday, September 3, 2010. Portable Workbench, part 3. Go back to part 2. Now that the workbench has been built, here's how to use it. Most people are more familiar with a bench that has some kind of built-in vise. Instead, this one uses a variety of simple work-holding methods. The dog holes and thick front skirt make it quite versatile. I highly recommend the Gramercy Tools holdfast. I also highly recommend the Veritas Wonder Dog. Ripping a piece to width, again with the...
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Close Grain: Building A Townsend Document Chest
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Woodworking in the digital age. Sunday, September 25, 2011. Building A Townsend Document Chest. Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes it gives you gold bars. This is one of those gold bar moments. It started with an email from reader and fellow SAPFM. Member Dave Macrae. He's also a member of the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers. And said their Period Furniture Group had a program I might be interested in. Even though Guild programs are open to non-members, I promptly joined, because this is clear...
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Close Grain: Building A Moxon Double-Screw Vise
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Woodworking in the digital age. Sunday, July 10, 2011. Building A Moxon Double-Screw Vise. My Moxon double-screw vise, based on Chris Schwarz's design. Chris Schwarz did several blog posts last year about building a version of Joseph Moxon's "double-screw vise". I immediately wanted to build one. He refined his initial design, resulting in an article in the December, 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking. I recently built a bench-on-bench. Another solution to the same problem. So why build this one? This map...
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Close Grain: Intro Hand Tools
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Woodworking in the digital age. Introduction (Skip to Table Of Contents). Welcome to the online version of my course, Introduction to Hand Tool Woodworking. This also serves as a supplement to the classroom course, which you can read about in this blog post: Fall 2011 Class: Intro Hand Tool Woodworking. The post also provides a little motivational background. Practice the basic skills separately. Once you're comfortable with them, you can integrate them into finished projects. This approach means...You a...
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Close Grain: "Dad, I want to build a box."
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Woodworking in the digital age. Sunday, March 4, 2012. Dad, I want to build a box.". And I want to use dovetails." Brings a tear to my eye! What more proud moment for a father? My daughter Shelby, a senior in high school, wanted to build a box to collect submissions for the school literary magazine. She had wanted to build the school box from The Joiner and Cabinetmaker. At least last year I was able to help out with her boat-building project. This was the first time Shelby had really used any of these t...
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Close Grain: Popular Woodworking University: Intro To Hand Tools
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Woodworking in the digital age. Friday, May 8, 2015. Popular Woodworking University: Intro To Hand Tools. Welcome to Intro To Hand Tools! I'm very excited to announce my new course at Popular Woodworking University. The new site for online classes from Popular Woodworking Magazine. The course is Intro To Hand Tools. For registration details and a 3-minute introductory video. The Fall 2015 session is now open, running through January 21. You can read some reviews of the now-completed first session here.
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Close Grain: Building A Queen Anne Foot Stool
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Woodworking in the digital age. Saturday, October 1, 2011. Building A Queen Anne Foot Stool. This past Spring, I joined SAPFM. The Society Of American Period Furniture Makers. In March, 2012, the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) in Hartford, CT, will be hosting a 6-month juried exhibition of SAPFM member work. The deadline for submitting pieces is this coming October 31. He, of course, was buying up the tools. Article "Upholstering a Slip Seat". In fact, this finally convinced me to sign up for paid ...
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Close Grain: Building A Gramercy Bow Saw
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Woodworking in the digital age. Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Building A Gramercy Bow Saw. Wow, summer's here and the time is right for . everything! Too many things competing for too little time. I'm a little behind on posting projects here. Back when I ordered the Gramercy holdfasts for my Roubo workbench. I also ordered the parts to build one of their bow saws. This consists of the blades and brass pins. Joel has all the plans and instructions. Posted on the website. Checking the Woodery website, I finall...
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Close Grain: Apartment Workbench
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Woodworking in the digital age. Monday, December 23, 2013. When I was demonstrating at the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event earlier this month. Talking to a number of people, I realized there's a whole class of potential woodworkers out there who are missing out due to some combination of severely limited space, funds, or skills. The prototypical example was the lady who was a grad student living in a tiny city apartment with her husband and knew nothing about hand tools. Introducing The Apartment Workbench.
