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Turning
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Shop Class Lesson
Guiding Your Router, Part 2
Guiding Your Router, Part 2
LESSON 3: Understand the systems available for guiding a workpiece past the bit of a router mounted in a router table.
Featured Technique
Making Straight Cuts with a Circular Saw
Making Straight Cuts with a Circular Saw
Every shop should have a circular saw. A couple of simple jigs will keep it cutting straight and true.
Finishing 101
Coloring Redux: Glaze and Toner
Coloring Redux: Glaze and Toner
Another common method of adding color to wood after it has been sealed is with glaze. You can use glaze to highlight carvings or flutes, create sunbursts and cameos, turn a painted surface into antique white, add age to wood, or even create patterns like fake wood grain and marble.
Woodworking
Term of the Day

Rubbing Out a Finish
The process of using ultrafine abrasives to produce a highly polished surface
Wood of the Week
Padauk
Padauk
Pterocarpus dalbergioides

Woodworking Blog
Satisfaction from the Simplest of Tools
Cleaning up the surface of his workbench with a scraper was a good chance for Chris Marshall to get back to basics with one of woodworking's simplest tools.

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Featured Woodworker
Robert McRay: From Ventriloquist to Hollywood and Back to Ventriloquism
Applying his love of woodworking and sculpting to a uinque craft, this one-time actor carves his wood into ventriloquist dummies.  Read more ...
Carving
Organized Graffiti: (Carving) Knives to the Walls
Organized Graffiti: (Carving) Knives to the Walls
Since 1923, over 3,000 students at the Belmont Hill School have picked up a chisel & created the 12" x 12" carved panel that's part of their graduation requirements.
Marquetry
Around the World in 80(+) Veneers
Around the World in 80(+) Veneers
A Wooden Vision of Places Called Home: Minneapolis Marquetarian Has It All Mapped Out

Turning
Drilling on the Lathe
Drilling on the Lathe
A drill chuck makes a sweet addition to your lathe.
Scroll Sawing
Twelve-piece Scroll Sawn Puzzle
Twelve-piece Scroll Sawn Puzzle
This beginner's puzzle is sturdily made and simple enough to keep a little one engaged but not frustrated. You can choose any image or photo for your puzzle's theme, provided it can be trimmed to a final 8" x 10-1⁄2" size.

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