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Furniture Project: The secretary desk has been a popular piece of furniture since the 17th century. Also called a 'slant top' or 'drop front' desk, this style of desk offers a great combination of storage space and beauty in a small amount of floor space.
Shop Project: Without a doubt, the router is one of the most useful tools in our shop and to really get the most out of this tool it is best to mount it in a table. Not only does this increase the utility of the router, but for many operations it makes it easier to rout smaller parts safely. With a table mounted router you can also use large panel raising bits.
Outdoor Furniture: Make gardening easier with this easy-to-build weekend project.
Tool Project: This marking gauge is handy to have at hand whether you are laying out joinery, using it as a depth gauge, or simply using it to transfer a measurement to another location. It’s a quick and simple project you could easily complete in a day.
Skill Builder: Dados and grooves are one of the most basic joints you can use when constructing furniture projects. They provide a mechanical connection that can be reinforced with glue and screws, making a structure much more rigid than had it been fastened together with butt joints. While not as decorative as dovetails or finger joints, they are much easier to cut and are ideal for housing panels such as drawer bottoms.
Craft Project: One of the pleasures of watching as the landscaping in our yard progresses over the years and the plants mature is the increasing frequency of visits by various species of songbirds. Watching them can be an amusing and entertaining way of passing the grey winter months here on the west coast. Aside from their entertainment value they really pull their weight when it comes to the yard work. They eat insects as well as seeds from the various weeds that seem to plague every garden.
Skill Builder: While hinges may look different from each other, they all have the same basic function.
Carving Project: Many carvers believe that to carve, they need dry wood, but I ask, "How long are you prepared to wait?"
Woodchuckle: Some days it doesn’t pay to get out of bed and if anyone ever invents a machine to notify you as to which days those are, I’ll be first in line to buy one. Heck, I’ll even buy the prototype if I have to.
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