Milling

Israel Martin likes machines but prefers to work with hand tools. To avoid the tedium that can accompany working with hand tools, he simplifies his designs, using mostly straight lines and square corners.

Peter Galbert learned a method for riving parts from sawn and dried planks. It has changed his perspective, and it might change yours, too.

Darryl Jones demonstrates how he finds, collects, processes, and seals “curbwood” into woodturning blanks.

Despite initial doubts, the CNC has quickly become an indispensable tool in the Fine Woodworking shop.

All it takes to make a perfectly flat board is a jointer plane and some patience.

Continuing with the jointer plane, Michael squares the first two edges to the face of the board.

Michael's jointer plane is the tool of choice for finishing off the milling of this perfect board.

Michael planes the facets of the octagon using—you guessed it—the jointer plane.

In order to create a perfect octagon, the last edge of the board is sawn and planed to be perfectly square to the face, and the other edges—a difficult task.

Michael demonstrates how to lay out a perfect octagon using only a compass and straightedge.