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Many of you may already know Chris Schwarz. He is an editor for Popular Woodworking Magazine and a self-confessed hand-tool and workbench enthusiast. His most recent work is a book called Workbenches, truly a modest title for what is contained within those 144 pages. Perhaps it was just great tim...
...chUp journey. And it all starts with Bob Lang’s Woodworker’s Guide to SketchUp. The guide is Bob’s self-published interactive PDF book. If you’ve never seen something like this, you’re in for a treat. The PDF opens up with a convenient index at the left. You can u...
I am happy to announce that the books have arrived from the printer! So that means we will begin shipping all the pre-orders this week. Since I promised to sign each and every one, it may take a few days to get through them all! But the “shipping department” is coming over for dinner to...
This project is particularly cool as it was inspired by the recent Chest of Drawers Guild Build. Ken did a great job of adapting the concept to a book case! Thought I would send you some photos of my most recently completed project. It was inspired by the latest Guild Build. As we didn?t need a ...
This is a blog post by guest author, Carole Rothman, Ph.D. She recently wrote a book called Wooden Bowls from the Scroll Saw and as you’ll see in her pictures, her work is unique and stunning! And there isn’t a lathe in sight! I’ve always had mixed feelings about lathe-turned b...
...ix that. I wanted to do a Greene & Greene project and I was inspired by an earlier viewer project – the Greene & Greene style display case for the Bible. I?m a very novice woodworker without many tools or resources for project wood and am always on a tight budget. I couldn’t a...
A unique slab top table incorporating a hay cart!...
Hey folks. The last time I mentioned the Woodworker’s Book Shop, the response was great. So great, in fact, they offered us an exclusive 20% discount for Wood Whisperer fans. Simply enter the code WoodWhisperer20ww at checkout. In addition to books, they also carry a bunch of plans and DV...
Last summer I finished up a toybox for my 2 year old son and wanted to build a book shelf to match. The design is by Kara Gebhart from Popular Woodworking magazine. It consists of all mortise and tenon joinery. It was also built from rough cut lumber. ...
s to use two species in his bench top. Do you foresee any problems incorporating a different species in places like an end cap, a vise chop, or in the case of the split top Roubo, the dog hole backing strip (in terms of wood movement)? The Hardware - What do you think of the Benchcrafted hardware an...
Dovetailing: Top & bottom case (router-cut), drawers (router-cut), drawer dividers (router-cut), base (hand-cut)…I wanted to experiment with both methods. The hand-cut definitely look more refined, but it was nice to have the router/jig since I had so many dovetails to cut on the rest of...
...Michael Fortune struck me as perfect. Lastly, the top molding. Trying to decide on basic size/proportions, I held a scrap of drawer runner against the case, below the top. Eureka. I modified the drawer runner with chamfer and round over and was very pleased. Two disasters: Just as the plinth was co...