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Bandsaw Dovetail Fixture
October 25, 2005

To cut dovetail joints, I start with the pins, cutting everything on my bandsaw. One problem that I ran into was that the table on my bandsaw like that on…
Cutting Board Router Table Insert
October 25, 2005

When I wanted to build a router table, I checked out the phenolic and acrylic inserts in the mail-order catalogs and decided they were too expensive. Then I came up…
Jig for Hand-Chopping Dovetails
October 25, 2005

This jig puts your chisel exactly where you want it when chopping dovetails. It guarantees that shoulder lines will be perfect on both sides of the pins and tails and…
Router-Cut Pocket Holes Revisited
October 25, 2005

I liked Michael Csontos' idea for making pocket holes with a router and a sliding ramp (Fine Woodworking #134, p. 20). But the fixture seemed complicated to build, and it…
Shopmade Steady Rest
October 25, 2005

In the process of turning dozens of spindles for a bed I was making, I found I needed a steady rest to stabilize the thin spindles during the later stages…
Fence-Setting Jig
October 25, 2005

There are times when you need the fence and the miter-gauge slot on a router table or a shaper to be perfectly parallel with each other, such as when you…
Routing Dovetails on Turned Posts
October 25, 2005

When I finally decided to make Christian Becksvoort's round Shaker stand (Fine Woodworking #110, pp. 70-73), I used a different technique for cutting the sliding dovetails into the base of…
Shaping Curved Molding
October 25, 2005

For the past two years I've been working on a Queen Anne highboy similar to the one described by Randall O'Donnell in Fine Woodworking #117-119. When the time came to…
Two-Fence Router Mortising
October 25, 2005

By adding an extra fence to your router, you can cut mortises quickly and accurately, and you virtually eliminate the risks of the router wandering or tipping into the cut.…
Avoiding Planer Snipe on Short Stock
October 25, 2005

When you need to put a short piece of wood through the thickness planer, here's how to eliminate snipe at each end of the workpiece. Cut 1-in.-wide wood strips about…

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