Popular Woodworking 2005-08 № 149, страница 6

Popular Woodworking 2005-08 № 149, страница 6

PROJECTS, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

38 Norm Abram's Adirondack Chair

During a two-day visit with Norm Abram, we spent a day building (an improved!) Adirondack chair in The New Yankee Workshop. Here are plans to build your own. by Steve Shanesy with Norm Abram

45 Advanced Table Saw Techniques

WOODWORKING ESSENTIALS

Here's how to get the most from your table saw. This chapter covers everything from cutting coves and odd-shaped boards to pattern sawing and kerf bending. Plus, learn how to build a coving fence. by Nick Engler

53 Learning Curves

Create a cambered cutting edge on your hand planes to improve your edge joints and to plane boards without leaving plane tracks. by David Charlesworth

60 Leaning Shelves

After numerous experiments and revisions using CAD software, we came up with a desk and shelves that are sturdy, curvy and easy to build.

66 A Woodworking Miter Saw

A miter saw needs some tweaking before it can be used for precision woodworking. We show you how to do this quickly with only a little material and a few pieces of hardware.

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$5 Router Plane

A block of wood, an Allen wrench and a thumbscrew is all you need to build a traditional hand tool that excels at cutting dados and cleaning up hinge mortises.

by John Wilson

Power-assisted Dovetails for Drawers

A hand-held router is the perfect helper when cutting a dresser's worth of half-blind dovetails.

by Scott Gibson

August 2005

Norm Abram, host of "The New Yankee Workshop," is a woodworking icon. After spending two days on the set of the show we offer plans for his improved Adirondack Chair and share some surprising truths about how he works.

Cover photo by Al Parrish

DEPARTMENTS

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Out on a Limb

What is the Value of Wood working ?

10

Letters

Mail from readers

86

Flexner on Finishing

Fixing Finished Surfaces by Bob Flexner

90

At the Lathe

Solid Roots for Good Design by Judy Ditmer

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Out of the Woodwork

Woodshop Pest

Control

by Peter Sieling

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Popular Woodworking

August 2005