#256–Sep/Oct 2016

Articles

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  Frame-and-Panel Cabinet: Get The Plan

  Give your joinery skills a workout
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  Fast Shellac Finish

  How to build an attractive finish in three easy steps.
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  Get Better Cuts With Your Planer

  With these tips you'll eliminate tearout, banish snipe, and get smooth results every time.
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  Gap-Free Through Mortise and Tenons

  Make your cabinets stand out with clean, attractive through-tenons.
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  Use vintage glass for cabinet doors

  Old panes bring vibrancy to new furniture
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  Build a Simple Stool

  Learn a fast, fun approach to making a comfortable, casual seat using hand skills.
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  Make Your Own Bandings

  Once you master the basics, the only limit is your imagination
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  Turn oak into lace

  Take a look at the painstaking process that goes into turning one of Pascal Oudet’s wafer-thin disks--from flattening, to turning, to sandblasting.
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  Lacework in Oak

  When Pascal Oudet turns vessels from oak, he takes the material down to its very essence -- the medullary rays and growth rings--revealing a beautiful portrait of one of the…

Fundamentals

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  Get started with your plunge router

  Given the choice between a fixed-base router and a plunge model, Jeff Miller will take the plunge router every time. Because it can plunge in and out of the work,…

Looking Back

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  40 years, thousands of authors

  Ever since Fine Woodworking was founded 40 years ago, we’ve been a place where a diverse group of woodworkers share their knowledge. We’ve welcomed all points of view, even conflicting…

How They Did It

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  Turn oak into lace

  Take a look at the painstaking process that goes into turning one of Pascal Oudet’s wafer-thin disks--from flattening, to turning, to sandblasting.

Back Cover

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  Lacework in Oak

  When Pascal Oudet turns vessels from oak, he takes the material down to its very essence -- the medullary rays and growth rings--revealing a beautiful portrait of one of the…

Workshop Tips

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  Wheeled lever mobilizes shop carts

  Like many amateur woodworkers, I use my garage as a shop, so tools and machines must be pushed out of the way when not in use. I bought commercial mobile…
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  Make round tenons with a router

  When a tenon loosened and broke on a favorite stool in our house, I wasn’t sure how to fix it. I don’t have a lathe, and it looked difficult to…
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  Double-Duty Drill-Press Shelf

  Shopmade shelf keeps parts and bits close at hand and is ideal for catching wood chips.
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  Curling Iron puts smooth curve in stringing

  When doing curved stringing, I lightly clamp a Teflon-coated curling iron in my vise and use it to bend the strings before gluing them into place. The curling iron works…

Online Extras

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  Straight Talk on Straight Bits

  Something as simple as a straight router bit can get confusing fast. Ben Strano helps you choose the right router bit for the job.
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  Tenons on the Bandsaw

  Tim Rousseau shows how to cut tenons with a bandsaw and a clever spacer-block trick.
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  Mix Your Own Shellac

  How to make a batch of shellac from fresh flakes.
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  Turn Your Planer into a Jointer

  How to use a shopmade sled to flatten boards in your planer.

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