#274-Mar/Apr 2019

Articles

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  Links from Fine Woodworking issue #274

  Online extras from Issue No. 274 of Fine Woodworking magazine. April 2019
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  Designer's Notebook: Draw, Draw, and Draw Some More

  Mike Pekovich explains how he gets from that blip on a page to a finished piece of furniture
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  Arts-and-Crafts Cottage Bookcase

  This classic Limbert design offers a unique twist on a traditional style
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  Tool Test: Honing Guides

  Models reviewed include the Lie-Nielsen, Veritas Mk.II Deluxe Honing Guide Set, generic side-clamping guides, the Kell No. 2, Nano Hone’s Sharp Skate 4, Trend, and the Veritas Sharpening System
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  How to Add Strength and Style to Any Slab

  Inlays transform a flawed slab into a sturdy work of art.
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  Make A Contemporary Swing-Arm Lamp

  Christian Becksvoort's wall lamp swivels on a wooden bracket and can be made to hold different types of shades.
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  How to Create Kumiko at the Table Saw

  Smart jigs simplify this complex design
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  Tapered Sliding Dovetails by Hand

  Specialty plane helps cut a self-locking dovetail joint.
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  From the Bench: The Family Violin

  My personal story is about endings and beginnings, father, son, and daughters, completing one circle and starting another. My father, Henry Finck, was a professor of anatomy at the University…

Online Extras

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  Peter Galbert's FWW Live 2018 Keynote Speech

  Unsurprisingly, the journey of a windsor chairmaker is rarely a straight line
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  Chris Gochnour's sharpening process

  Watch a hand tool aficionado who is always looking for new ways to be a better sharpener
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  Siosi Designs–Our Lives In Frame

  Our Lives in Frame is a glimpse into the enigmatic world of Siosi Design. Siosi is Audi Culver + Ivy Siosi, and they describe themselves as partners in life, collaborators in design, and women who make + fabricate

Workshop Tips

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  Depth Gauge for Chair Seats

  A workshop tip on how to make a simple depth gauge for hand-shaped chair seats.
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  Workshop Tips: Router-Table Jig Makes Perfect Rabbets for Banding

  I created this jig to rout ledges for edge-banding (called “binding”) on the curved sides of a ukulele, but it will cut perfect rabbets for banding or inlay on all…
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  Workshop Tips: Supercharge your clamps with a screwdriver assist

  When arthritis started making it harder to tighten and loosen clamps, I bored a 3⁄8-in.-dia. hole through the wooden handle of every clamp I own. Now I just insert a…

Tools & Materials

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  Tool Review: 16-32 Drum Sander by SuperMax

  Drum sander is a smooth operator
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  Tool Review: Ultimate Coping Saw by Blue Spruce Toolworks

  High-end coping saw is an impressive tool that does a great job on scrollwork, coping moldings, and removing waste while dovetailing
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  Tool Review: Roller Stand Model PM-5093 by Bora

  Support stand with multiple heads
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  Tool Review: Mega Flush Trim Router Bits by Infinity

  Infinity’s Mega Flush Trim router bits are well-made, double-bearing bits with compression shearing cutters made of carbide

Fundamentals

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  11 Mortise-and-Tenon Variations

  The tried-and-true mortise and tenon comes in many forms.

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