#247–May/June 2015

Articles

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  User's Guide to PVA Glue

  We’ve sorted through the formulations to help you choose the right yellow glue for any situation
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  How to Make a Shaker Box

  Master the basics, and you’ll be building these iconic boxes in bunches.
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  Juice Up Your Joinery

  Artistic tenons pack structural power with visual punch
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  How to Build a Nightstand

  Housed tenons deliver strength, and tapers create a refined appearance
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  How to Build Beautiful Cases from Plywood

  Smart joinery turns eye-catching panels into sturdy furniture
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  How to Make a Double Bridle Joint

  Twin tenons maximize strength and add decorative flair
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  File Joints for a Perfect Fit

  Finesse parts after handplaning to create snug joinery.
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  Out of Nakashima’s Shadow

  A chest designed with deference and difference
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  Machinist’s Calipers

  When you need an exact measurement, nothing beats precision calipers.
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  Side-Hung Drawers

  Build smooth-sliding drawers that survive the seasons
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  Asian-Flavored Apprenticeship

  Aaron Levine's quilted Western maple and lacewood tansu chest offers lessons in veneering, NK-style drawers which are screwed together, and adding wheels, which are traditional on certain tansu. He picked…
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  Traveling Tansu

  This rolling tansu chest by Aaron Levine is based on a traditional Japanese furniture form, but when he designed it he was serving an apprenticeship and was at the very…