New This Fall: the Split-Top Workbench
The bench every other plan was built on is finally a plan of its own. Here is what took two years.
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Why Every Plan Here Gets Built Twice
The first build finds the mistakes. The second build proves the drawings are right. Only then does a plan go in the cat…
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Buying Lumber at a Real Lumberyard, the First Time
Board feet, 4/4 and 8/4, rough versus S4S. What the words mean, and how to walk out with what the plan asked for.
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Measure From One End: the Tape Habit That Fixes Half of All Gaps
Most gappy joints come from measuring each part separately. Mark parts from each other instead.
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Glue-Up Day: Clamps, Cauls and the Dry Run
A glue-up goes wrong in the first five minutes. Do the whole thing dry first, with every clamp set.
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