Surviving Glue-Upsby Gary Rogowski
It’s the most stressful 15 minutes of woodworking. You’ve spent weeks of careful work and preparation in building a piece of furniture, and it all comes down to ...
Fortify Your Joineryby Garrett Hack
Corner blocks are a simple way to add strength to a piece of furniture. Often you’ll find these small blocks glued behind bracket feet and crown moldings or under ...
Frame-and-Panel Doorsby Lonnie Bird
Detailed directions in this article guide furniture makers through the sometimes tricky process of building frame-and-panel doors. The author shows how to set up ...
Uses for Hot-Melt Glueby Mark Schofield
Prompted by a reader suggestion, Fine Woodworkings Mark Schofield takes on the task of finding uses for hot-melt glue. He found the weak-bonding glue useful in ...
Gluing Up Tabletopsby Gary Rogowski
Making large-panel tabletops doesnt have to be intimidating. Gary Rogowski explains all the steps needed to mill, match, glue up, and properly clamp your work. ...
Master the Miterby Gary Rogowski
Gary Rogowski explains how to make miters that will serve you well in frames for veneered panels, applying wrap-around molding, or picture-frame construction. He ...
Tackling Large Tabletopsby Kim Carleton Graves
The boat-shaped table featured in this article, if built of solid wood, would be unstable and too heavy, so the author made a torsion-box tabletop instead. A torsion ...
Keep Track of Your Progress with Squiggles and Linesby Philip C. Lowe
If you don’t mark your parts as you progress through a job, you’ll waste time trying to remember what goes where and what you have already done, says author Philip ...
Making Tabletops Without Coming Ungluedby Anatole Burkin
Getting a nice flat tabletop with tight joints isn’t a snap. Anatole Burkin interviews several woodworkers on their experiences and strategies for gluing up large ...
Strong, No Clamp-Up Corner Jointsby Steve Latta
Steve Latta calls this tablesaw technique the key to making perfect miters without tilting the blade. He rips and crosscuts all stock to finished dimensions, with ...
Strategies for Clampingby Jim Tolpin
Jim Tolpin learned the hard way -- in the middle of making a spiral staircase with two laminations – that it’s important to have all the necessary materials on ...
Clamping Panels the Easy Wayby Jim Tolpin
Jim Tolpin built a vertical press to hold large pieces during clamp-up to free his bench and prevent racking in the piece while it cures. The press is made from ...
Forming Curves from Layers of Blocksby Kirt Kirkpatrick
Kirt Kirkpatrick glues together segments of wood like a mortared wall for strong, stable curves. The method is called bricklaying, and it can be a full circle, ...
Dovetailing Large Carcasesby Charles Durham, Jr.
Accurately fitted and squared dovetail corners are crucial to the success of large projects. Here, Charles Durham Jr. details the problems that beset furniture ...
Just Plain Drawersby John Lively
John Lively of Fine Woodworking prefers the strength and durability of dovetails when he makes utility drawers, without spending the time it takes to do them by ...
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