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Thank you, Frank. I just sent Trent a request.

Hello all, I bought a Sawstop PCS a few months ago but am only getting into setting it up now. Aligning the table to the blade is simple enough, but in checking the alignment of the tilt axis (i.e.,...

Brian, what stunning, beautiful work. A lovely design, lovingly executed. I think for my next walnut piece "own the sapwood' will be my mantra.

I use a garland split-head mallet with rawhide faces:
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Thank you, Derek. Very helpful!

+1 for the LN #62 low-angle jack (with the "hot dog" attachment).

Derek, beautiful work as always. A question about your glue-up sequence: When gluing up a carcass with drawers, do you glue up the four sides first, then add blades and runners, or do you include one...

LOVELY work, Brian. Makes me long to start working in walnut again. I like how you "embraced the sapwood' in your drawer fronts (those are drawer fronts, right?). Also, very nice proportioning of...

Brian, thanks. I like the 4 1/2 on panels precisely for its mass. Obviously it's too big for some things, but with beeswax on its sole it's sweet. I think my problems really do lie in all the usual...

More tabletop tribulations. Unfortunately, my labors with this now finally flat hunk of wood were not over. After I had worked the panel into submission, it was time to apply a finish. I naturally...

Thank you, Barry. I'm glad my fun and games on this piece could be helpful to you in some way.

Brian, modifying a #5 into a scrubber as you suggest is exactly what I did after learning the lessons...

Very nice, Howard. I've never done drawers with inset side runners before. Do you find it fairly easy? Any tips and tricks you care to share about that?

Greg, that's a lovely piece and will mean so much to your children over the years. Nicely done!

That damned tabletop. After all the joinery and harrowing glue up of the legs and carcass, I thought this would be the easy part: glue up a board of cherry, cut some curves around the edges, maybe...

Thank you Brian--high praise considering the beauty of your own work that I've seen here.

Thank you Christopher! I never sing in the shop, but the lowly shower is always good, especially while getting walnut dust out of your bronchi. My family marvels at the noises I make.
I wanted to...

Drawers: I am not an expert at them, but even for those who are, making an imperfect dovetailed box fit snugly into another imperfect box contains innumerable chances to get things wrong. Here is...

After all the joinery on the show parts was completed, I turned to the many M&T and other joints that make up the heavily engineered guts of the carcass. These were in maple and less aesthetically...

Brian and Joe, thank you for your kind comments!

The center partition is housed in a dado with a dovetail out front, kind of an abbreviated sliding dovetail. It turned out OK, but I let myself get...

One of the masters of drawer making, Alan Peters, used nothing but wax. If you think you need more protection I would shellac the outside sides, and top and bottom edges, then wax, then for the...

After the tricky joints in the front legs came the comparatively simple task of tapering all the legs on two faces and rounding them over on their outside corners. For tapering I immediately thought...

In addition to the mortises for the right and left aprons, the front legs require twin mortises for the tusk tenons in the lower drawer blade plus a dovetail socket on top to receive the upper drawer...

Next come the tenons in the aprons. No pictures of the ripping here, which I did with an LN 16" tapered (after some hesitation I ended up really appreciating the length and weight of this saw for...

This might have to be thrown into the Neander Valley, for I used handtools for everything except rough dimensioning of stock. The engineering of this coffee table with two drawers was based on Will...

This was my first time making mortise and tenon joints (and there were a lot of them) and also the first time building anything with legs and aprons. Overall I'm pleased with the result, as is my...