I have a table saw (made a sled for it last week), various chisels, but rarely use them, a router, miter saw, an electric planer somewhere that I haven’t tried yet. You are right, I don’t know much about woodworking. As a kid, I was lousy at it to the point that I ...
I use a brayer (rubber roller used in printmaking) to apply a thin coat of stain to the piece, which still allows the grain to show through, but adds a dark finish to the surface, allowing the carving to stand out a different way. This was the finish ...
I was successful at flattening it out however; the router bit gave me a less than desirable surface that would take me an eternity to sand smooth. My solution was to put in my Dewalt 13″ planer and if it is wider than 13″ to make two cutting boards and glue them together. I love...
I borrowed my friend’s 13″ portable DeWalt DW735 planer to surface a 12′ piece of cherry for a built-in desk I was building. I was so focused on properly supporting the piece of wood on the outfeed side that I didn’t notice that the board exiting the planer was about to hit th...
Plunge router with edge guidehttps://amzn.to/2K7SsHG Step 2: Prepping the Workbench It feels so wrong to do it, but I start by cutting off the edge of my workbench top. This overhang off the top is a little shy of 3" and was designed for use as an easy clamping surface to hold...
the mortise and tenon. The real magic of the mortise and tenon joint is that it takes this end grain to long-grain union and converts it to long-grain to long-grain, simply by inserting one piece into the other. As a result, the joint has a great deal of glue surface and strength...