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  1. Understanding Jigs and Fixtures

    Understanding Jigs and Fixtures

    Most woodworkers are familiar with jigs and fixtures, but in case you're not, they're handy devices that supplement woodworking tools and machinery, usually by helping guide stock or a tool through a cutting, drilling
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  2. Demonstration of planed board and board running through DeWalt Planer

    How to Flatten Lumber with the DeWalt DW735x Planer

    Lumber is not always flat and ready to use. Sometimes woodworkers must flatten a board before using it to build a project. Learn more about this planer's features and a couple tips that will help you get the most out of your planer.
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  3. Ready-mount dust fittings and blast gates

    Why Choose Ready-Mount Dust Collection Fittings?

    Mounting dust fittings to a wall can be a hassle, involving trips to the hardware store, a hodgepodge of parts, and shaky results that slide around when you need to attach or detach a hose.
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  4. Video: Building an Expandable Pedestal Dining Table

    Video: Building an Expandable Pedestal Dining Table

    In this video, Shaun Boyd designs and builds an expandable restaurant-style table. Shaun Boyd tackles a testing marathon build of a table for a friend's restaurant. This build
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  5. How to Make a Twelve-piece Puzzle

    How to Make a Twelve-piece Puzzle

    This fun little project puts together a few different woodworking techniques and only takes an afternoon to make.
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  6. Using a sanding drum to smooth the curve in a woodworking part

    Smoothing Out Curved Parts

    There are two popular methods for using a template to smooth out the edges of curved parts: a flush-trim router bit, and a sanding drum equipped with a template guide. Both have their advantages.
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  7.  The Basics of Wood and Water

    The Basics of Wood and Water

    There’s just no way around it: Moisture in the air causes wood to change in size and often in shape. Consider it an invitation to read up on the physical realities that make changes w
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  8. Build a Mobile Tool Storage and Sharpening Cart

    Build a Mobile Tool Storage and Sharpening Cart

    The sharpening cart is compact giving you a lot of tool storage and utility in a small portion of your shop. Sharpening your chisels, plane irons and turning tools is not the glamour
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  9. Fractional Calipers - Accuracy in a Familiar Form

    Fractional Calipers - Accuracy in a Familiar Form

    The more precise your woodworking becomes, the more precise your measuring tools need to be. And if you stick with woodworking long enough, in all likelyhood a time will come when you hear yourself say, "By gum, I need a caliper!"
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  10. Building an Arts and Crafts Style Bookcase

    Building an Arts and Crafts Style Bookcase

    This bookcase was developed in the classic Arts and Crafts style with quartersawn longleaf pine lumber.
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  11. Video: Quick and Easy Clamp Storage

    Video: Quick and Easy Clamp Storage

    In this video, April Wilkerson shows how she built a clamp rack to organize her bar clamps, pipe clamps, and quick clamps.
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