The Way to Woodwork
Amateurs and experts alike will greatly benefit
from these step-by-step lessons!
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Woodworking Techniques
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Finishing Flow Chart
Coloring Redux: Glaze and TonerAnother common method of adding color to wood after it has been sealed is with glaze. You can use glaze to highlight carvings or flutes, create sunbursts and cameos, turn a painted surface into antique white, add age to wood, or even create patterns like fake wood grain and marble. |
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Wood of the Week
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Woodworking Glossary
Drawer SlideA system of tracks and rollers that attaches to the outsides of a drawer box and the insides of the drawer opening enabling the drawer to be opened and closed and maintain its alignment within the carcass; also called a drawer glide |
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Turning
Chuck It!Investing in a good quality chuck will increase your options for making bowls, especially with all that free wood available from friends and family. Have fun, and remember ... keep your tools sharp! |
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Scroll Sawing
How to Make a Scroll Sawn, Flared BowlMost folks think of the lathe when considering a wooden bowl, but not this author! Laminated bowls are usually round, lathe-turned and made from large blanks. This rectangular bowl, with colorful stripes, is made on a scroll saw from a blank that is only 3/4" thick. |
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Marquetry
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Carving
A Carver's One-stop Strop SpotThe variously shaped profiles of my woodcarving chisel blades require a variety of strops, and I used to have to mount them one at a time in my lathe, switching from one to the next. |
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