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Tag Archives: drawbore
Building A Frame-and-Panel Interior Door
If I had a backup career in woodworking, it would be making doors and windows for historic homes. It’s not that I especially enjoy making such objects more than others. (I’ve never even made a window sash.) It’s that it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Build-Alongs, Home Improvement, Kids, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged brace and bit, cat, dog, door, drawbore, frame and panel, frame and panel door, handplane, handtools, hang a door, hang interior door, interior door, mortise, mortise and tenon, plow plane, tenon, veritas small plow plane
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Building a Dining Table, Part 2: Clamps and Pegs
The majority of my time on this project was spent surfacing the boards for the top. I hand-planed all the boards from the rough-sawn stock, and I must have carried out four or five garbage bags of wood shavings in … Continue reading
Posted in Build-Alongs, Furniture, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged draw bore, drawbore, mortise and tenon, oak, tusk tenon, tusked tenon
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A Window into Fifteenth-Century Woodworking
You can learn a lot about period woodworking at the art museum. Robert Campin’s Merode Alterpiece, a triptych painting of the Annunciation, is well-known in the art world, but it ought to be better know to woodworkers, especially those interested … Continue reading
Building a Half-Door (with What I Had On Hand)
As tomorrow is the 12th day of Christmas, and the next day we celebrate the gifts of the Magi to the infant Jesus, I thought I’d show off my big gift to my wife this Christmas: a door. My wife’s … Continue reading
Posted in Build-Alongs, Home Improvement, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged blind mortise, design opportunity, door frame, drawbore, frame and panel, inlay, mortise, plywood, rabbet, router plane, through mortise
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Confessions of a Clamp Minimalist
Whenever somebody on a forum asks, “how many clamps do you need?” the usual answer is, “just a few more than you have.” I have a confession to make: I have almost never felt that way. I am a clamp … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Wood and Woodwork
Tagged clamps, dado, drawbore, glue up, mortise and tenon, pipe clamps, sliding dovetail, sprung joint
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