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We’re pleased to announce our newest Woodcraft Magazine team member, Brad Weekley. As our art director, Brad will help blend words, photos, and illustrations into the engaging, easy-to-read woodworking articles you count on us to deliver. Brad brings

The 2010 Victoria’s Secret fashion show was the last straw for Megan Offner, who was helping to build the sets. She had been doing that kind of design/build work in New York City for the better part of a decade, but was increasingly uncomfortable wit

RIKON’s “new” saw featured in the April/May issue (p. 13) looks a lot like the Craftsman I’ve had for a few years. And I think Ridgid makes one too. But whether it is RIKON, Rigid, or Craftsman I can attest to the veracity of Mr. Snyder’s review. It

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For many woodworkers, cutting a perfect through dovetail joint is a rite of passage. Now, for an investment of about a hundred dollars and a couple of hours, even a budding woodworker can show off their dovetail skills to friends and family. Canadian

Author of Taunton’s Complete Illustrated Guide to Furniture and Cabinet Construction Q: Depending on the drawer opening I need to suit, I’m discovering that the fixed template on my new dovetail jig doesn’t always allow for terminating a joint at eac

Woodworkers have a way of collecting table saw blades. It starts innocently enough with an all-purpose blade or two, and before you know it, you’ve added a dedicated ripping blade, a crosscut model, a dado set, and specialty blades for cutting everyt

Like many woodworkers, I often pulled my old bevel-down Stanley #151 “gull wing” spokeshaves into play to help shape and smooth curved workpieces of all sorts, using the flat-sole version for straight or convex surfaces, and the radiused-sole model f

On August 24, 1814, the two year-old War of 1812 took a particularly ugly turn when British soldiers torched the U.S. Capitol Building. The conflagration turned marble columns to lime, reduced the new congressional library to ash, and decimated both

Ever wonder if your table saw blade does what it’s supposed to? Sure, it “cuts,” but is it costing you needless aggravation and added machining? Are you becoming a master at fixing poorly fitting joints and cleaning up rough, burned cuts and tear-out

What’s a counter without a stool or two to accompany it? Actually, this stool is more of a stool/chair hybrid with a curved back rest that provides a little support while serving as a convenient handle at the same time. The gently curved seat cradles

You don’t have to see a lot of canarywood to know where it got its name. The brightly streaked yellowish/orangeish/reddish /brownish heartwood is reminiscent of many Springtime birds. And like birds whose feathers lose those bright colors in the fall

Featherboards, also called fingerboards, are time-honored shop helpers for holding stock against a machine’s fence and/or down on its table. Primarily used on a table saw or router table, a featherboard is basically a body of wood or plastic with thi

TOP TIP I recently built a large slab table that required a lot of epoxy filling. I devised this router jig to help with the leveling of the hardened epoxy. The jig consists of four polycarbonate pieces screwed to a couple of maple risers as shown, c

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I was doing a little shop reorganization when I came across a coffee can with the label “MISC” written on its lid in my grandfather’s handwriting. It contained a jumble of odd hardware from his shop and some that I had added over the years before los