Gary Rogowski Archives - Page 5 of 43

In chair construction, what method do you use to measure and lay out shoulder faces on rails and stretchers when the stiles are rotated and angled? Thanks Malcolm G

I'm building a large kitchen table out of soft maple and it will be painted, it's 42" x 90" with the grain running the 42" length.It will have a large…

Dear Expert: I am about to begin a major project.  I plan on building an early American Bombe Chest.  I have researched the Fine Woodwoprking files and printed  all the…

In chair construction, with oblique and angled joints of the stretchers and stiles, the shoulder cuts become very strange (difficult) to scribe/measure. Are there techniques for this process? Malcolm G

Hi Gary, I was going to make a side table similar to the Greene and Greene side table you published an article on in 2004. You used mahogany and I…

Hi Gary, I just purchased some very cool walnut burl veneer and it is a little wavy. I was wondering how to flatten it and maybe even soften it a…

I am currently using hand tools for everything (it seems cheaper to get started with the best handtools than the best powertools - maybe I am wrong there, but that's…

I am planning to make a counter top from bandsawn cherry veneer over MDF. I would like to make the veneer thick enough so the normal abuse does not cut…

Hi I have done face lamination before when I only had 4/4 lumber. Like face  gluing 3/4 boards to make legs, bench stretchers, sawbench saddle and never got stability problem…

hello. I just bought a holdfast. (woodcraft). (wow they're expensive). I drilled a hole 1/16 oversized, and can not get a descednt amount of pressure. Any movement side to side…