#289-May/June 2021

Features

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  Links from Fine Woodworking issue #289

  Online extras from Issue No. 289 of Fine Woodworking magazine. June 2021
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  Step-by-Step Guide to Tuning Your Block Plane

  Whether your block plane is new or vintage, follow these steps to get it running at full capacity.
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  Arts & Crafts Coffee Table with Story-Book Charm

  With an understated shelf, beveled through-tenons, and stretchers shaped at the ends to corbel-like curves, this coffee table evokes the traditional Arts and Crafts style without being too serious.
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  Seven tasks for a block plane

  One of the most versatile tools in the shop, the humble block plane is essential to Mike Korsak's production of accurate and precise work.
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  How to brush on a varnish finish

  A wiping varnish goes on easily and creates a tough surface ready for rubbing out.
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  How to rub out a varnish to a mirror shine

  Rubbing out allows you to adjust the sheen of a finish, while removing imperfections like dust nibs, runs, sags, or bumps from the surface.
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  A Deck Chair Built to Withstand the Elements

  Tapers, curves, and angles converge in a sleek, durable outdoor chair.
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  Continous grain, mitered door and drawer pulls

  Larissa Huff and Robert Spiece's smart construction techniques make fashioning their small parts safe and repeatable.
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  Faces of the Craft: Rosanna Coyne

  It was in a class at the North Bennet Street School where Rosanna Coyne discovered carving, and found the passion that changed the course of her woodworking journey.
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  From the Bench: A long loose end

  A nine-drawer dresser sat in mid-build for nearly 30 years, its drawers half-built, its pockets stuffed with student supplies, clippings, letters, and other stuff. Then David Welter retired, and the dresser came home, rose to the top of the "to-do" list, and found a new life.
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  The bowl is a bird

  Dave Fisher turned a branch into a bowl, and a bowl into a wren.

QA

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  Steel screw before brass?

  Mike Korsak weighs in with his thoughts on a common practice.

Workshop Tips

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  Workshop Tip: Simple splitter for an old table saw

  This method makes it easy to line up the tab perfectly with the blade.
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  Workshop Tip: Repair a bowl without taking it off the lathe

  Use the tool rest as a clamping caul to reattach broken pieces.
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  Workshop Tip: Sand moldings with sockets

  It's similar to using a dowel, but there are more size options.
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  Workshop Tip: Soup up your shop apron

  Make a place for your dust-collector remote and dust-proof the pockets.
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  Workshop Tip: Work backward with wandering hand tools

  Realign the tool for each subsequent cut.
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  Workshop Tip: Check and set hand tools with an angle finder

  This tip works great on sliding bevels, miter gauges, and squares.

Tools & Materials

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  Tool review: NGX Clamp Edge System from Bora

  Bora's new system turns your circular saw into a track saw.
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  Tool review: Bench Top DC from Oneida Air Systems

  Danny Kamerath reviews a new collector designed to sit on your workbench and collect dust as you sand.