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ARTICLES
Books Adventure: Old Ken's Tools
32 Quick and Tricky Little Boxes by Jim Cummins
How I bookmatch scrap wood into Christmas gifts
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39 Splitting Out a Firewood Tote by Wayne Ladd
This project gets you started with green wood
42 Plans for a Swiss shaving horse by Drew Langsner
Shop-Testing Five Jointer-Planers by James A. Rome
Combination machines solve some problems, have drawbacks too
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how to read the grain by R. Bruce Hoadley
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Bandsawn Dovetails by T age Frid
Tilt, saw and chop
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Cutting Dovetails With the Tablesaw by Mark Duginske
A versatile way to join a stack of drawers
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Goats Get Jim Pritchard by Deborah Navas
How a homebuilder became a figure carver
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I;:uropean-Style Cabinets by Bill Pfeiffer
types,
Frameless carcases, hidden hinges and continuous veneers
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Improving the Fretsaw by Ed Kampe
Cover: A tableful of small-to-medium boxes,
Pivot guides handsawing of marquetry veneers
most of them quick to make on the tablesaw,
62 Motor makes fretsawing fly by Scott Littleton
with enough design variations to keep anybody
busy with new combinations. As shown
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Which Glue Do You Use? by George Mustoe
above, you begin by resawing a piecefscrap.
Chemical not brands, make the difference
Where to go from there is ex plaine in the
article beginning on p. 32.
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Disc Sander Sculpts Turnings by William Hunter
A way to cut spirals without an ornamental lathe
Spoon Bits by David Sawyer
Putting 17th-cenrury high technology to work
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