#281-Mar/Apr 2020

Articles

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  Online Extras from FWW Issue #281

  Links and videos mentioned in Fine Woodworking issue #281
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  A Stunning Milk-Paint Finish

  Elia Bizzarri shows how to layer black milk paint over red to create a rich, layered look on his Windsor chairs.
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  Designer's Notebook: Playing with angles

  Design inspiration could strike at any time, so furniture maker Jamie Herman makes sure to keep a sketchbook handy to record his ideas while they're still warm.
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  Arts and Crafts Chest

  Nancy Hiller builds a time-tested and versatile chest originally designed by Ernest Gimson.
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  Veneered waterfall edging

  Craig Thibodeau demonstrates how to create crossgrain banding that starts on the face of a panel and flows outward, away from center, and over the edge.
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  Breadboard Ends: 4 Ways

  Gary Rogowski demonstrates, step by step, four methods for keeping tabletops and wide panels flat.
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  Elegant entry table

  With tapered legs, split aprons, and profiled top, Mason McBrien's table was designed to showcase the lightness and straight grain of the American white ash.
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  How to Cut Coves on the Table Saw

  Instead of turning to a router or a shaper, Will Neptune produces various deep, wide coves using the tablesaw.
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  Build a Saw Bench

  Megan Fitzpatrick builds a pair of versatile saw benches to make it easier to crosscut and rip boards, drill, finish, help support workpieces, and more.
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  From the Bench: The carpenter's son

  A carpenter's son and his father share a lifelong love of woodworking, and in the process learn from each other.

Workshop Tips

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  Sheet Goods Table with Built-in Panel Lifter

  Adding a pivoting lift bracket and locking wheels amps up the value of this big rolling table.
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  Workshop Tip: Reversible planing bar works two ways

  A toothed stop stabilizes awkward work, while a flat bar on the other side makes changing and repositioning boards easier.
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  Workshop Tip: Silicone baking mat secures waterstones

  Nonslip surface keeps diamond plates and waterstones from slipping.
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  Workshop Tip: A simple wingnut improves any toggle clamp

  Replacing the top nut with a wingnut makes adjustments easy
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  Workshop Tip: 1-2-3 block for crosscuts and more

  Machinist's tool serves as crosscut stop on tablesaw and also as a quick and precise setup device elsewhere in the shop.
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  Workshop Tip: Reverse your rubber sanding block for curves

  The curved back of a regular sanding block makes a great tool for smoothing concave surfaces.

Tools & Materials

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  Tool review: PantoRouter

  Rollie Johnson reviews this powerful tool that creates perfect joinery.
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  Tool Review: DFM Dowel Plate

  Mike Pekovich takes a look at a great dowel plate that's sold at a great price.
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  Tool review: EZtension Bandsaw Tension Gauge

  Rollie Johnon reviews a clever bandsaw tension gauge.
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  Tool review: EHK KL Trigger Clamps by Bessey

  David Douyard reviews Bessey's new one-handed clamps.
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  Tool review: Morakniv 162 and 164 Hook Knives

  Dawson Moore takes a look at the much-anticipated update of two classic hook knives.

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