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Shop Class Lesson
Understanding Wood DistortionLESSON 1: Learn to identify the four principal types of wood distortion and how shrinkage differential is usually the cause. |
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Featured Technique
Squaring a DoorClamping rail and stile joints closed doesn't automatically guarantee that the door you made is perfectly square. |
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Finishing 101
Rubbing Out: The Final Step to a Great FinishYou can rub out all types of film forming finishes, including shellac, lacquer, oil based varnish and polyurethane, waterbased coatings and catalyzed or conversion coatings. There are three strong reasons for doing so. |
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Woodworking
Term of the Day
CutterThe sharpened component of a tool that makes contact with and slices, surfaces, trims, or otherwise shapes the workpiece |
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Wood of the Week
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Woodworking Blog
Cleaning up the surface of his workbench with a scraper was a good chance for Chris Marshall to get back to basics with one of woodworking's simplest tools.
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Featured Woodworker
Sylvie Rosenthal: A New Voice in WoodworkingYou may not have heard of Sylvie Rosenthal yet, but you will. At age 23, she's already getting national attention for her creative woodworking & most recently at the Furniture Society conference in Madison. |
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Carving
Woodcarving InsightMy life is all about woodcarving, mostly relief woodcarving. I started when I was 18 years old and knew right off: carving was for me. |
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Marquetry
Mastering MarquetryAnderson Ranch Arts Center has a "great atmosphere, to be with all these inspired and inspiring people," says Woodworker's Journal apprentice LiLi Jackson. |
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Turning
Finishing On the LatheAsk a turner to show you what he or she uses to finish on the lathe and almost anything is likely to "turn" up. |
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Scroll Sawing
How to Make a Scroll Sawn, Flared BowlMost folks think of the lathe when considering a wooden bowl, but not this author! Laminated bowls are usually round, lathe-turned and made from large blanks. This rectangular bowl, with colorful stripes, is made on a scroll saw from a blank that is only 3/4" thick. |
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