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For my early American reproductions, such as cobbler's benches and step tables, I have found that splaying the legs about 5¡ in two directions is just about right. I recently…

Crosscutting wide panels using the table saw's miter gauge is awkward at best. Faced with a project requiring accurate crosscuts on 2-ft. wide, 6-ft. long panels, I investigated commercial sliding-table…

Back in the days before I had a radial arm saw in my shop, I worked out a cutoff table to use with my portable circular saw. The fixture consists…

Round tabletops, lazy-Susan shelves and other large circles can be cut on the tablesaw with a simple jig. Cut a dado in the underside of a 3/4-in. high-density particleboard base…

To produce identical chamfers on matching edges of tongue-and-groove stock, I use an extra piece of stock with a nailed-on router fence, as shown in the sketch. Both the tongued…

Faced with the problem of jointing two 2x10 lengths of sugar pine for a carved sign, and not having a jointer, I used this method to produce an almost perfect…

I recently built a set of display cases that had tamboured doors with 1/4-in. thick edges. I wanted the grooves in which they ran to be 1/32-in. wider so the…

You can produce panels with beautiful long-tapered bevels on your jointer, provided it has rabbeting capability. Build an outboard table from 3/4-in. plywood about 12 in. wide and as long…

When I needed two 7-ft.-long fluted panels for the front entrance of my house, I made this simple angled fence and cut the flutes on my tablesaw. The fence is…

When I needed to miter a few dozen 1/8-in.-thick cock beads, I first tried a chop box, but found it produced severe chipping behind the cut. So I built the…