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Joe beat me to it.

I have three pieces of furniture with Knapp joint drawers. I love finding this when I examine a piece of furniture because, as Joe indicated, you can positively identify the...

Jon,

Don't sell your tools yet and don't give up on doing woodworking with a new baby on the way/in the house.

I only have 2 months and 2 weeks until my son (our first born) arrives. I'm not...

Something interesting a fellow member of the St. Louis Woodworkers Guild showed me is the technique he uses for making stringing material.

He takes a sheet of maple veneer (he has some older 1/32"...

Was a reference to glue being made by horse parts after they are dead (gluing after dying)...

My comment was going to be something similar, but Charles beat me to it.

I have two blue spruce marking knives in my shop (thus reducing the time spent searching for a marking knife by half!) and love them both.

Dave Jeske is a great businessman - communication and...

Tom,

I'm a fan of quality. I hate to see a box that someone spent several hours of hard work building get fitted with a $5 pressed hinge.

Quality shines through every time.

Go with...

I hear there's a pretty good jig for mortising hinges in the Tricks of the Trade section of the April 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine...

(sorry... I hate tooting my own horn, but in...

If you want a softer look, then rip the wood into the square sticks the thickness and width you want, but keep them long.

Take one end of the blackwood (I'm saying blackwood because that's what I...

Or you can always buy a block of ebony and rip your own pegs out of it. If you want round pegs, then rip and turn.

If you just want wooden pegs that are very dark in color, I wouldn't limit...

I'm confused. What did I do this past weekend? Or what will I have accomplished on the weekend before May 12th?

This last weekend, I did nothing in the shop and nothing to improve the home. I'm...

Ed,

I did a similar thing with a cabachon last year.

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The stone matched a stone inlaid into the pommel of the sgian dubh the...

Richard,

I tend to make smaller projects, as well, so it didn't take me very long to stumble upon the ice chest cooler idea as a fuming container. I've been using it for a few years now. The best...

Chris,

The Osage Orange was a bear to turn, but it's super solid and it has great heft and weight and I know it will last me a long time. I'm a big fan of it, though it was a difficult wood to...

Dang... that looks really good, Ryan!

At what point in the process did you actually fume the wood? (And what technique did you use for fuming? I'm always looking to improve upon mine, though I am fairly happy with where that is right...

Mike,

When I use my carving mallet, I don't wrap my thumb around the handle and across my first two fingers; I line it up with the handle, like I'm holding a Japanese pull saw. I think it gives...

The mallet is 9 1/4" long. The diameter at the widest part of the head is almost exactly 3" and the head itself is 4" long.

Hope that helps!

Ryan,

I'll measure tonight and throw you some numbers.

Ethan

James,

I notice you neglected to indicate what your response was! Or was that your response (i.e. silence)?

I guess the only concern with disassembling it would be if it turned out to be...

Hi, my name is Ethan, and I'm addicted to lignum vitae carver mallets.
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Eh... if I were to triple my money, I'd be more tempted to pick up the Veritas Small Plow Plane I'd been saving up for and then I would be back to having no vise.

When I talked to the guy, he...

Sometimes the story behind a project or even a piece of wood is just as interesting to me as the project itself!

Thanks for sharing.

Great tips, Ron! Thanks for the advice. I'll go download those install plans this morning.

For anyone who cares to read, I did a little write-up of my purchase in my blog...
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OK; now it's a gloat. :)

Condition: Some minor scratches to the plates here and there; missing most of the chrome on the guide rods (only there where the back plate sat over it for 25 years, very...

I agree with you, Brent.

The shop notes article was about replacing the cheap wrapped straight handle with a custom hardwood straight handle.