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Bob Rozaieski offers a guide to choosing a vintage dado plane, tuning up metal and wood-bodied planes, and using them to produce clean dadoes.

Replay! Join furniture maker Aspen Golann for a look at her painting process, including her techniques for airbrushing in details.

Improve your hand skills with a chest sized for travel and the shop

The visual language of chair design.

Taking a tip from boatbuilders, Chris Becksvoort demonstrates his use of patterns to build identical parts, whether he's making a set of dining chairs, a lamp, a Shaker trestle table, a stool, or a Shaker round stand.

Replay! Join furniture maker Steve Brown as he illustrates how the shapes, proportions, moldings, and other details of American period furniture were drawn directly from classical architecture.

Michael Mascelli demonstrates how to create a finished, professional-looking upholstered slip seat.

The Japanese craft of tekizami, hand preparation of timber by craftspeople, is not commonly seen in great detail by other than the masters who build with it.

Philip Morley's small wall cabinet has sides that curve inward at the top, with an asymmetrical arrangement of drawers, door, and open shelves.

Learn how these joints go together and why they were used