#263-Sep/Oct 2017

Articles

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  Try a Bleached Finish

  You can remove the color from wood without taking away its personality.
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  Handwork: Make a Coopering Plane

  Clark Kellogg shows how he made his version, which is based on James Krenov’s classic bench plane design.
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  Floating-Top Table

  This table could easily serve as a sewing table, a side table, a small writing desk, or even a TV tray.
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  Add Bushings to Your Router Kit

  These inexpensive accessories increase control and make the router even more versatile
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  2 Options for Lipped Drawers

  Clever construction tips for both
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  Wall Cabinet with Curves

  A combination of old techniques and new machinery makes working with curves less painful
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  Furniture, Nailed

  Old-fashioned cut nails make furniture that’s strong, stylish, and a pleasure to build
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  Carve a Greenwood Bowl

  Pleasure in the making—and every day thereafter
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  Master Class: Decorative chip carving

  The piece-de-resistance on David Fisher’s hand-carved bowl is the decorative chip carving around the rim
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  Design by a thousand kerfs

  Silhouette of the Past within the Present

Online Extras

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  Cut nails, a family business

  Gary Franklin is a fifth-generation nailer at the Tremont nail factory in Mansfield, Mass. His great-great-grandfather started working there shortly before the Civil War, and he carries on the tradition to this day.
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  FW360: Tremont Nail Factory - Mansfield, Mass.

  Take a look around (literally) the last factory producing cut nails in the United States.
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  Axes and adzes for bowl carving

  Green woodworker Dave Fisher shows you exactly what he looks for in his go-to carving tools for making chips fly.
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  How to Wrap a Handle with Cord

  To make the wrapping of the handle on his table flawless, Mike Pekovich uses some tricks borrowed from his days building fly rods in California.