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This article was inspired by a question from Steve. He writes: I have recently embarked on building bookcases and I have run into an issue. I decided to use a cabinet grade birch plywood that I picked up from the hardwood dealer here in Dallas. Everything was fine until I started the cross-cuts...
o do is take a couple pieces of scrap that are the same thickness as your workpiece, and butt them up against the ends. Its a good idea to clamp them into place. The scrap pieces will essentially sandwich the workpiece. So when you start and finish the cut, the fibers of the workpiece will be com...
s but in due time I’d like to get into Cabinet making, etc. For now though until my skills are honed, it’s going to be lots of pine boxes, plywood, small items such as outdoor planters, indoor planters, Jewelry boxes…bookcases…bookshelves…you get the idea.” “...
The tablesaw has really come under fire in the last few years in terms of its overall safety. As a result, some folks are going sans tablesaw in their wood shops. This is a little hard for me to imagine since I use my tablesaw of pretty much every project, but to each his/her own right? If you are...
obliged. So in the video series, we’ll be showing BOTH techniques. So here is how the router method works. The router sits inside a very simple plywood sled and rides along two parallel rails. As you move the sled back and forth, a big honkin’ router bit chews up any high spots. The bes...
en he told me, “If you want to make good joinery, use a pencil. But if you want to make great joinery, using a knife!” Marking gauges come in several forms but they are all fundamentally similar. They consist of a post, a moveable fence, and a blade or scratch pin. My personal preference...
o shelves around the legs. I remembered how to utilize sticks to wrap around the legs and then using a flush trim bit cut a pattern out of 1/2″ plywood. After cutting the corners of my pattern square with a flush cut saw, I tried a fit around the legs…perfect tight fit. I then set the...
I saw this video on GardenFork.TV recently and thought you folks would get a kick out of it. Its a video by our friend Eric Rochow that shows you how to build a boat from a single sheet of plwood. I wouldn’t count on making any long ocean voyages in it, but it looks like a fun DIY project. Ju...
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y two-car garage is available for woodworking, with that space ?shared? either by a car or F450 pickup when one is pulled in for servicing. A sheet of plywood on sawhorses just wasn?t tolerable any longer. Taking a clue from a long-ago city apartment, I built a ?Murphy bench? with end vise, which s...
s next. I wanted the bottom piece and center sections to be lighter in color so I found a piece of light colored mahogany for the bottom, and veneered plywood for the center section. 1/4″ ply is not thick enough to allow for the glass, picture, and cardboard backer, so I added 1/16″ to t...
I was working on a simple cabinet recently and I started thinking of all the different ways there are to cover the exposed edges of plywood. Veneer tape, solid edge banding, oversized edgebanding, and even joinery itself all do a fine job of hiding this unsightly side-effect of using plywood. And...