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Make Your Own Dowels

Make Your Own Dowels

Tom, member | August 3rd, 201136 comments

Don't bother with store-bought sticks. Making your own dowels is quick and easy and uses up those shop scraps.

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Getting Started In Woodworking Season Three: Build a Walnut Nightstand

Getting Started In Woodworking Season Three: Build a Walnut Nightstand

FineWoodworkingEditors, member | May 9th, 20113 comments

A new season of our Getting Started in Woodworking series for beginner woodworkers offers step-by-step instructional video to guide you through the process of building a Shaker nightstand.

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Baby planes

Baby planes

Vlad_S, member | January 28th, 20115 comments

A look at an instrument maker's standby, and some ideas for using them in furniture making

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Williamsburg Day 3: Phil Lowe is a woodworking ninja

Williamsburg Day 3: Phil Lowe is a woodworking ninja

AsaC, member | January 14th, 20112 comments

On Day 3 of "Working Wood in the 18th Century" Phil Lowe took the stage, and stole the spotlight.

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Singa me a Songa

Singa me a Songa

Vlad_S, member | December 1st, 20105 comments

Charlestonian musician and drum maker Adam Crowell designs great-looking and great-sounding wooden tongue drums. Check out his videos here.

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Built-in Buildoff Update

Built-in Buildoff Update

epirnik, member | February 18th, 201011 comments

As we near the finish line in our mudroom buildoff between woodworker and carpenter, the differences in working methods are becoming more and more apparent.

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Is Danish Modern the furniture style of our time?

Is Danish Modern the furniture style of our time?

AsaC, member | December 23rd, 200959 comments

While Maloof and Krenov certainly created the template for the modern studio furnituremaker, I think they they also shared an furniture style: an offshoot of Danish Modern. And recent makers have taken up that mantle.

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Nakashimas Leg

Nakashima's Leg

epirnik, member | December 7th, 20097 comments

The question of how to repair a broken chair leg takes on new meaning when it comes to super-fine furniture.

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Young woodworker wins again

Young woodworker wins again

moscowfield, member | October 1st, 2009

Vermont high school woodworkers showed off their pieces at an annual show.

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How I remember Sam Maloof

How I remember Sam Maloof

AsaC, member | June 1st, 20095 comments

I dialed Sam Maloof’s number timidly in 2005, just another writer calling for a piece of an icon. My idea was to do a twist on the typical Maloof homage, asking him instead to offer advice to...

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Maloof on Design

Maloof on Design

AsaC, member | June 1st, 20092 comments

Editor Asa Christiana interviews Maloof in 2005 on the subject of design. We weren't able to fit this material in the article in issue #179, but these thoughtful answers will be illuminating for fans of Maloof's work.

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Threat to American walnut

Threat to American walnut

moscowfield, member | March 9th, 20092 comments

A fungus is wiping out trees in the West, but it musn't be allowed to spread east

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Walnut Veneer for Your Internet Browser

Walnut Veneer for Your Internet Browser

MBerger, member | February 10th, 20091 comment

Cool add-on for Firefox makes your Web browser look like it's been veneered with walnut (well, sort of)

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Woodworking with Ugly Men

Woodworking with Ugly Men

MKenney, member | January 14th, 20092 comments

I've built things from wood most of my life, but it wasn't until I met Joe Mazurek, a self-proclaimed ugly man, that I really learned how to make furniture.

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