Innehållsförteckning för December 2016 från Woodworker's Journal

Rounded sides plus a wedge fulcrum create tongs that can be adapted in length to serve a variety of functions. Isometimes have a hard time getting things out of a toaster. Full-size pieces of bread are usually OK, but smaller pieces (and just about all English muffins) don’t seem to pop up high enough to grab without burning my fingers on the toaster. Of course, if you don’t let the toast cool for a few moments before grabbing it, you can burn you fingers on the hot toast, too. An easy-to-make pair of grabbers like these “toasty tongs” will fix all that. And there’s no need to relegate them strictly to toast duty, either. The tongs presented here also go perfectly with a veggie tray, and by changing a few…

Grand Marais, Minnesota, is one of those magical little towns that seem almost unreal. Driving through pea soup fog on the way to get there and on the way back made it seem even more as if I was actually being rocketed through some sort of portal to an amazing place on another planet. Once I arrived at the North House Folk School, the community and dedication to craft magnified the dreaminess of this breathtaking setting. My goal of this trip was to learn how to make Scandinavian Shrink Boxes, which are Viking technology! Thanks to instructors Jim Sannerud and Paul Linden (who made the boxes shown above), that goal was easily attained. These shrink boxes could be constructed using just a saw and a knife, but the steps laid…

Contact Information BORA Tool (Affinity Tool) 866-588-0395 Hitachi 800-706-7337 Infinity Cutting Tools 877-872-2487 JET 800-274-6848 Milwaukee 800-729-3878 Powermatic 800-274-6848 Rockler 800-279-4441 Trend 877-918-7363 3 (3hp, $1,799.99). Two versions of the 18" saw include: JWBS-18 (13.4hp, $2,099.99) and JWBS-18-3 (3hp, $2,299.99). JET–fs 2" options are: JWBS-20-3 (3hp, $2,999.99) and JWBS-20-5 (5hp, $3,249.99). JET®’s new 15", 18" and 20" Steel Frame Bandsaws feature the largest resaw capabilities and table dimensions in their classes. Resaw height of the new JET 15" band saws has been increased to 14", which is 4" taller than previous models. The 18" and 20" band saws boast a full 16" resaw capacity, a 33⁄4" increase. The 15" band saw’s table measures 211⁄2" long x 16" wide, while the oversize table of the 18" and 20" saws measures 271⁄4"…

Don’t Get Stuck Dry-fitting Dowel Joints Dry-fitting a dowel joint is a must before you glue it together, but the dowels are made to such tight tolerances that they can get stuck in their holes. To prevent this problem, I sand pairs of dowels of different sizes down a few thousandths, then I.D. them with markers or dye to set them apart from the rest of my dowel supply. I save these marked sets for dry-fitting. They don’t get stuck, and once I know things fit properly, I switch to regular dowels for the final glue-up. Dean Ross Missoula, Monana Bar Clamp as Planing Backstop Holding a box or drawer for final planing can be a challenge if your bench doesn’t have a vise or bench dog holes. I find…

Master the challenge of turning a cylinder, and you’ll be able to create either a baguette style or a handled rolling pin. For videos on making baguette, American and pasta cutter style rolling pins, please visit woodworkersjournal.com and click on “More on the Web” under the Magazine tab. Any cooking store sells wooden rolling pins and most kitchens still sport one. Unfortunately, modern examples are puny and of poor workmanship compared to the ones our grandmothers turned out pies, pastry and cookies with. Rolling pins make a nice gift and are a good seller at craft fairs. While most hardwoods will make a serviceable rolling pin, I overwhelmingly recommend hard maple. Most of the antique American examples I have seen are made from this wonderful wood, which is stable, durable…

Don’t spoil a near-perfect project with poorly chosen or mounted hardware. Here are some expert tips to help ensure that pulls, hinges and other metal accents will highlight your hard work. Just like in every other aspect of woodworking, there are tried-and-true methods for making hardware installation an easier, cleaner and more precise process, as well as reducing the chance of running into problems. In this article, I’ll present some of the procedures I’ve found particularly useful for installing some of the most common types of cabinet and furniture hardware, including pulls and knobs, hinges and drawer slides. I’ll also offer some general tips for mounting just about any hardware that’s screwed or nailed on. And, just in case you run into problems, I’ll show you a few good tricks…

Leave it au naturel, or go for a bit more dazzle. Michael Dresdner is a nationally known finishing expert. He shares his expertise on the DVD The Way to Woodwork: Step-by-Step to a Perfect Finish, available through the store at woodworkersjournal.com. Tis the season to make gifts, and kitchen items are always a favorite. They’re easy to make, are welcomed by cooks and can often be made of scrap wood. So what finish should you put on this ideal gift? While “nothing at all” is a perfectly valid option for any kitchen treen, there are a range of finishing options that are safe, simple and stunning. Let’s look at a few of my favorite kitchenware finishes. Just Leave It Raw Spoons that constantly go into hot soups and stews, and…

This project was originally published in The New Bandsaw Box Book: Techniques and Patterns for the Modern Woodworker (ISBN 978-1-940611-32-7) by David Picciuto. That book and the author’s new book, Make Your Own Cutting Boards, are published by Spring House Press (springhousepress.com). Band saw boxes are what really got me started in woodworking years ago, because they’re not that difficult to make. If you’ve got a handful of clamps, a band saw and some attractive scraps, you’re pretty much all set to make any number of different box styles. Plus, compared with more involved woodworking projects with lots of parts or complicated joinery, band saw boxes provide almost instant gratification: you can make many simple designs in just a day or so of shop time. If you’ve never made a…

I enjoy making kitchen projects for my own use as well as for gifting to family and friends, and there’s nothing I like better than creating wooden versions of classic utensils. I’ve made several pasta servers like the one presented here, but this time around I thought two complementary pasta utensils would make for a fantastic matched set. Although they are different sizes and have different uses, these utensils share the same basic pattern: The shape of the handle ends as well as the curve of the front ends are identical on both pieces. The only difference is that the server is long and narrow, while the measure is shorter, with an extended wider portion on the business end. Any hardwood is fine for this project, but avoid open grains…

Picture frames are often simple projects, but that doesn’t mean their style has to be humdrum. We’ll make sure that doesn’t happen here! This 8x10 frame features an eye-catching inlay that you can make with a mixture of wood dye and two-part epoxy. Once it’s poured into a saw kerf in the frame parts and planed flush, you’ll have the look of a colored pinstripe with very little fuss. So, grab a piece of special stock from your scrap bin that measures at least 3/4" thick, 21⁄4" wide and 24" long. Ordinary epoxy and either a water- or alcohol-based dye will work fine for the inlay. Milling the Frame Parts Start by surfacing your frame stock to 13/16" thick; we’ll plane it down to 3/4" after the inlay is poured.…

When used for shipbuilding, the wood from the Southern live oak was so strong that cannonballs bounced off the sides of the ship. There is no such thing as white dye or true black dye; white is only available as a pigment. Black pigment exists, but black dye is actually very dark green, blue or purple dye. The addition of a small amount of orange dye makes it appear blacker. The Pacific Yew tree produces “taxol,” a common chemotherapy drug used against solid tumor cancers. What Does It All Mean? A quick guide to terms from the world of woodworking. Live center: One of two mounting points on a lathe for spindle turning, it spins on its own bearings and is installed at the non-driven, tailstock end Dozuki: Thin-bladed Japanese…