April 2022

Woodworker's Journal

“America’s leading woodworking authority”™

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ROB JOHNSTONE Publisher ALYSSA TAUER Associate Publisher CHRIS MARSHALL Senior Editor JEFF JACOBSON Senior Art Director DAN CARY Senior Content Strategist COLLEEN CAREY Video Production Assistant NICK BRADY Project Builder MATTHEW HOCKING Internet Pr
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From Our Readers
AN UNBROKEN CHAIN OF WOODWORKING LORE “It is never a mistake unless you can’t fix it.” This important piece of woodworking advice was shared with me by Warren Nelson, the foreman in the woodworking shop owned by my dad and uncle. Warren offered these
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A Cleaner Purpose
Perhaps our December issue’s tool specimen — a double-hooked wire gizmo with a spring-loaded clip on the bottom — truly has you stumped, because only a few have weighed in on its purpose. Or it could be that our usual posse of diligent guessers were
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Tricks Of The Trade
While helping me with a big glue-up task, my nine-year-old grandson Caleb — an avid woodworker — suggested we put a clamp onto the glue bottle to help squeeze out the glue when his little hands got tired. Turns out, his idea worked great! I only wish
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Fundamentally … Power Tools
In this issue you’ll find the second article of a new six-part series for 2022: Power Tool Fundamentals. Our goal is to provide great basic information about the most commonly used power tools in woodworking shops. This time, it’s band saws! Power to
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Building More than Boats
When I walked into the workspace of the Urban Boat-builders (UBB) Saint Paul, Minnesota, headquarters, I felt instantly at home. Urban Boatbuilders began in 1995 with a goal of introducing youths to working with their hands as a path to employment. T
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Dale Barnard Woodworking School
Dale built four student workbenches for the Barnard Wood-working School’s shop in southern Indiana after another school that had hired him as an instructor went defunct. “I found out through teaching that I really have a lot to teach,” he said. As bo
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Choosing a Four-jaw Scroll Chuck
It is quite possible to turn about anything imaginable with a set of centers (drive and live) and a faceplate. That being said, a four-jaw scroll chuck can be a highly useful addition to your turning toolkit and can save immense amounts of time in ma
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Outdoor Love Seat
Building outdoor furniture has proven to be extremely popular. Enjoying your yard while seated in a chair or bench that you’ve made is a fine thing! Adirondack-style outdoor furniture reigns supreme as king of the open-air world with chairs, benches
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Roycroft-style Taboret
While this little taboret was a popular product coming out of the Roycrofters’ furniture shops back in the early 20th century, it doesn’t appear as a project plan very often these days. So we thought it was about time to offer our version with a uniq
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Universal Clamping Table
If you often could use a third hand like me when gluing and clamping larger components and panels together or carrying out routing and sanding operations, this clamping table might just be the ticket! Made from a sheet of ¾" MDF covered with high-pre
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Butt Joint Variations
If you took shop class in school or have been making things from wood since childhood, a butt joint is likely the very first wood-to-wood connection you ever made. And it’s one that we all continue to make throughout our woodworking careers. In fact,
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Benchtop Drill Press Table
Every so often it’s fun to spoil yourself with a new tool, and buying that tool usually means making a couple of new jigs and fixtures for it. For example, I came up with this pretty fancy table for my new benchtop drill press. You could opt for a pl
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The Band Saw
Over 200 years ago, the idea of the band saw was born. A patent in 1808 was approved in England to William New-berry. Although another 40 years passed before a French woman, Anne Paulin Crepin, invented a welding technique that made manufacturing ban
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Brushless Rotary Tool, Versatile Task Light
Even with ample overhead shop lighting, a well-placed task light can still brighten shadowy machine tables or bring more focused light wherever you need it most for seeing fine details. To those ends, Rockler’s Magnetic LED Task Light (item 68061; $4
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Rockler 4-Piece Digital Measuring Kit
Sure, there are manual and analog options for taking careful measurements in the shop. Digital technology has only been around for the blink of an eye compared to woodworking! But if you’ve ever scratched your head trying to figure out the exact angl
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Installing Undermount Drawer Slides
Drawers in cabinetry and other furniture projects will be opened countless times over decades of use. So mounting them on durable metal drawer slides just makes good sense, regardless of the initial hardware cost. These days, there have never been mo
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How Can I Un-weather Old Redwood?
Q I have some 20+ yearold redwood. I am planning to build an outside bench for my grilling station this spring and would like to restore the wood to its original unfinished color. I would prefer not to run the boards through the planer, since it’s al

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