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Router planes

Using Router Planes for Accurate Joinery
By Samuel Colchamiro

A router plane is an extremely accurate hand tool that has the ability to increase the efficiency of your hand and machine tool woodworking. Understanding how to correctly use router planes can help your woodworking in a variety of ways which are discussed in this article.

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Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
Mary May's Woodcarvings and Classes
Stories from Grandpa's Workshop
Finishing: Wait Time for Top Coating
Tool Review: Z-Saw Dozuki Saw
Taunton Press Book Specials
Using Router Planes for Accurate Joinery
Women in Woodworking
Show Us Your Woodworking
Poll: Your Woodworking Beginnings
Book Review: Setting Up Shop


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Ramia Workbench

Find the Perfect Ramia Workbench for Your Shop

A well-made workbench is essential for any woodworker who wants to succeed using traditional hand tools. Our line of Ramia workbenches are available in a variety of sizes and have a diverse range of capabilities to assist in your woodworking!

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Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

We're sharing the story of how Gene Adcock moved his old shop to a new 600 square foot back room when he and his wife moved to a 55+ living community in Ellicott City, MD.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking

We're sharing a variety of Dennis Devlin's woodworking projects including several different kitchen utensils which he makes out of leftover scrap wood from other projects.

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Show Us Your Woodcarving

Woodcarving with Mary May

We're excited to share a variety of carvings from well-known woodcarver, Mary May. We also have information on some of her events coming up, including a carving tour in London and another class at Highland!

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Setting Up Shop

Book Review:
Setting Up Shop

Starting out to set up a new shop? Already have one you want to update, enlarge or reorganize? Well, have I got a deal for you. Sandor Nagyszalanczy's Setting Up Shop, an authoritative guide to all things woodshop is just the ticket to guide you through the many things you'll need to consider. This guide thoroughly examines the full range of issues entailed in setting up and equipping a woodshop.

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Women in Woodworking

Women in Woodworking:
Meet Merissa Piper

This month's feature, Merissa Piper, hails from New Hampshire and is an incredible, knowledgeable self- taught woodworker. As a weekend woodworker, she holds down a full time job while managing to put out great content and share her greatest tips and information with fellow woodworkers.

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Paint Finish

Stories from
Grandpa's Workshop:
To Paint or Not to Paint - That is the Question
By Bob Rummer

When we build something and come to the question of how to finish it, we ask "to paint or not to paint?" Sometimes the answer is paint—sometimes the answer is not to paint. Bob explores this dilemma in this month's column.

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Poll: Woodworking Resolutions

Poll: How Did You First Learn About Woodworking?

This month’s poll asks “How did YOU first learn about woodworking?” Did you go into your parent or grandparent's shop at a young age and watch what they were making? Did you make your own projects in scouts? Did you take shop class in school? Did you just recently retire and want to learn something new in your spare time? Is it your career? Some other way?

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Top Coat Wait Time

Finishing: Wait Time for Top Coating Stains and Dyes

There are several types of stains and dyes for us woodworkers to use on our projects. The basic difference between stains and dyes dictate how they must be treated when applying a sealer or a top coat over them.

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Z-Saw Dozuki Saw

Tool Review: Z-Saw
Dozuki Saw

Last year I did a tool review of the Gyokucho Rip Dozuki Saw but the Z-Saw Dozuki Saw is specially designed to be used with hardwoods such as maple, mahogany and walnut.

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