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Close Grain: Building A Townsend Document Chest
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Woodworking in the digital age. Sunday, September 25, 2011. Building A Townsend Document Chest. Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes it gives you gold bars. This is one of those gold bar moments. It started with an email from reader and fellow SAPFM. Member Dave Macrae. He's also a member of the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers. And said their Period Furniture Group had a program I might be interested in. Even though Guild programs are open to non-members, I promptly joined, because this is clear...
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Close Grain: Building A Bench On Bench
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Woodworking in the digital age. Saturday, April 23, 2011. Building A Bench On Bench. I fine-tuned the height of my workbench for planing. However, many other operations benefit from a higher work surface. Moxon's double-screw vise. Is one way to elevate and hold pieces for dovetailing. I first stumbled onto the idea of a benchtop mini-bench last year on Alf's blog. She had built one based on Jeff Miller's 2005 Fine Woodworking article. Then I saw this one. Ripping the first piece. Since this board is...