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With our compilation CDs, it’s easy to find exactly the magazine article or information you’re looking for. And now, the Popular Woodworking Magazine2010 Compilation CD is in the bookstore and [...]

For the last week or so I’ve been researching the science of smacking the snot out of things. I’ve been reading lecture notes from a Harvard course on “fracture [...]

One of my favorite pieces of Arts & Crafts furniture is the Morris chair. Strong, comfortable (for reading or relaxing), ample seat area for one-and-a-half people, and generally not all that [...]

The cover project for the December 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is a Line & Berry Chest built by Senior Editor Glen D. Huey. This chest is a traditional design from the Chester [...]

Picked up some boards that were thrown away at a remodel project down the street and I needed a railing for a front porch and ripped a few boards down for the slatsto make this railing just a [...]

Details of the end panels and the top's frame the 'wood pile', from old barn siding, most of this went into the end panels Drawer construction, just dovetails on the fronts, with a [...]

glue-ups, end view Top and bottom shelf added All the parts, but the plywood shelf from water bed frames, to this Which's Brew Walnut stain.   Size is 16" wide(top)  by [...]

Glue ups with some of the arms in place Parts, two top rails, a spindle shaped, a foot and an arm Fitted up, posts were turned on on my lathe Some stain and a coat of varnish…

Drawer parts, awaiting dovetails, face frames screwed in place with plugs over the screws. with some finish on them Back side of the drawers, the screw is a drawer stop, since these will be inset [...]

In place, will be stained to match tool kit, this is mostly what I used Locations marked out, showing the defects to be covered up A single one on an apron,   apron was on the back of [...]

"Front View" "Dutchman" on bottom apron, covering an old bolt hole shelving:  center divider is notched to the middle shelf, just a slip fit in a notch in the shelf [...]

end panels web frames details of the frames face frames and drawers.  Top in place Details of top's frame, showing a center stretcher.  Plywood top sits in the rabbet around the [...]