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In this installment, Publisher Steve Shanesy reassembles the restored Unisaw and sets it up for its second lifetime of use. See them all: Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6…

XMAS NUTS, THE WALNUT BOX . UNIQUE ???????? EASY TO DO JUST TIME AND PAITENCE.USE KNIFE TO OPEN WALNUT AND MINI BRASS HINGED. UNUSAL GIFT FOR SOMEONE…

Shooting the photo for the cover of a magazine is as unpredictable as my second girlfriend, Kym Harper. Sometimes it’s impossibly fast. You put the project down, take a photo of it and [...]

THESE ARE SOME OFF CUTS I HAVE WHICH I HAVE GLUED TOGETHER.NOW THEY ARE DRIED I WILL MAKE SOMETHING FROM THEM NOT SURE WHAT AS YET!! BUT ONCE I HAVE MADE SOMETHING WHICH COMES TO MIND WILL SHOW [...]

Every time I bend over in the shop, I feel like I’m being just a little disemboweled. By that, I means that all the important stuff , 6″ rule, pencil, tape measure, small square , [...]

After years of development, Lie-Nielsen Toolworks is planning on making a No. 51 chute-board plane that should be released in the first quarter of 2010, Thomas Lie-Nielsen says. Tool collectors [...]

THESE ARE IDEAL FOR YOUR TREE PLASTER MOULDS. YOU CAN MAKE 12 EVERY 15 MINUTES. X 48 AN HOUR. OR EVEN BUY A MIXTURE OF MOULDS TREES, SNOWMEN,XMAS STOCKINGS,SANTA CLAUSES?? SO NEXT TIME YOUR [...]

MDF XMAS DECORATION USING THE SPIRO GRAPH.USING 3MM MDF AND USING YOUR IMAGINATION TO CUT OUT WHAT YOU THINK IS BEST.!!THE SIZE IS UP TO YOU. I MAKE MINE AT 3 INCH DIAMETER. THESE XMAS [...]

  I install this shopmade support on my workbench to raise the face frames to be cut.     I use the jigsaw with a coarse blade to cut the curves on the lower part of the face [...]

HAVE YOU NOW GOT YOUR 6 PIECES ID TIMBER?OAK IS THE BETTER BUT PLY WILL DO TO MASTER THE PUZZLE.AND WHEN PER-FECTED YOU CAN MAKE IT FROM OAK.IF YOU NEED TO MAKE THE PUZZLE BIGGER ALL YOU DO IS [...]

At long last, Roy Underhill has launched his new web site with a complete list of classes and online registration for his school in Pittsboro, N.C. If you were shut out of his classes next year, [...]

With the holidays fast approaching, we decided to share our Christmas wish lists, in the hopes that someone (mom, are you reading this?) would be looking for last-minute gifts. And because a [...]