#263-Sep/Oct 2017
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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
Articles
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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
Bowl carving is becoming very popular with green woodworkers, but it's hard to know where to start when looking for axes and adzes. Dave Fisher shows you exactly what he looks for in his go to 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.
