How-To

Recent How-To Stories

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  Webinar: Painted Furniture with Aspen Golann

  November 4, 2021

  Replay! Join furniture maker Aspen Golann for a look at her painting process, including her techniques for airbrushing in details.

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  How to build a Dutch tool chest

  November 1, 2021

  Improve your hand skills with a chest sized for travel and the shop

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  On Pleasing the Eye

  October 18, 2021

  The visual language of chair design.

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  How to tame curved parts with patterns

  October 11, 2021

  Taking a tip from boatbuilders, Chris Becksvoort demonstrates his use of patterns to build identical parts, whether he's making a set of dining chairs, a lamp, a Shaker trestle table, a stool, or a Shaker round stand.

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  Webinar: The Secrets of Period Proportioning with Steve Brown

  October 7, 2021

  Replay! Join furniture maker Steve Brown as he illustrates how the shapes, proportions, moldings, and other details of American period furniture were drawn directly from classical architecture.

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  How to Upholster a Slip Seat

  October 1, 2021

  Michael Mascelli demonstrates how to create a finished, professional-looking upholstered slip seat.

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  Japanese joinery in practice

  September 30, 2021

  The Japanese craft of tekizami, hand preparation of timber by craftspeople, is not commonly seen in great detail by other than the masters who build with it.

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  Kerf-bent wall cabinet

  September 29, 2021

  Philip Morley's small wall cabinet has sides that curve inward at the top, with an asymmetrical arrangement of drawers, door, and open shelves.

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  5 spectacular Japanese joints

  September 29, 2021

  Learn how these joints go together and why they were used

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  Using a dowel plate to peg a Shaker cat table

  September 28, 2021

  One chonk of a cat, one bedside table, and a great lesson in reinforcement and dowels.