Bob Van Dyke Archives - Page 2 of 11

I am about to make a cherry dinning table 60" round with two 18" leeves and the client wishes a hand planed surface with a minimum surface waxed finish. I…

Hi Chris Gochnour, in his latest interactive classroom installment, demonstrates in detail how to approach dovetails. Among the techniques displayed is the use of scribes and marking knives for establishing…

    I always understood never to use the rip fence when cross cutting on a table saw.   However, many times i've seen pros on TV use the rip fence…

Hi - I posted this on the KNOTS part of the site, thread 38996, but would like you to comment (or any other expert).  I am especially interested if sawing…

I aplogize if this is a duplicate of a question I asked last week but I'm not sure the email was sent. I connected a solid oak top to a…

I recently purchased a flush trim spiral router bit. I trimmed my work to about a 1/16 of the final finish then with my pattern used my spiral bit to…

Hi, Sorry if this has been asked before, I looked but could not find it, if it has. I am looking to use my Router for morticing and wanted to…

I'm having trouble ripping 8/4 maple for the workbench I'm making. As I'm ripping some of the boards (10 footers), the kerf wants to close...so tightly that it pinches the…

I have built some drawers for a cabinet and have discovered when I placed them in the cabinet that in the upper part of the cabinet when I place the…

I'm having trouble getting my drawer to fit squarely in the cabinet.  I'm using european drawer slides.  The cabinet is square and the drawer is square also.  I've secured the…