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Grandpa's Workshop

Stories from
Grandpa's Workshop:
A Well-travelled Road...
By Bob Rummer

One of the glorious things about woodworking is the long and rich history of our craft. As I reflect on ancient Romans and Egyptians, my Grandpas and Great-great-great grandpas, and all the woodworkers who have gone before us and produced so many beautiful and useful things - I get an overwhelming sense that when we start woodworking, we are stepping out onto a well-travelled road...

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Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
Aspiring Woodworker
Book Review: Build 25 Beautiful Boxes
Women in Woodworking
Poll: How Do You Get Your
Woodworking News?

Stories from Grandpa's Workshop
Finishing: Flattening Agents
Turning Figurines
Taunton Press Book Specials
Show Us Your Woodworking
Show Us Your Woodturning


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Women in Woodworking

Women in Woodworking:
Meet Material Curls
By Char Miller-King

This month's Women in Woodworking column features a duo of woodworkers known as Material Curls, who collaborate together on their projects and don't mind pointing out their woodworking mistakes and pitfalls.

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Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

Roger Kugler discusses his 440 square foot 'garage' shop, located in Bloomington, IN. Despite it being a garage, there has never actually been a car in the space.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

Show Us Your Woodworking

We're featuring Simon Brace's dining table project that he repurposed from the wooden stage his church was removing from their Church Hall.

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Show Us Your Woodturning

Show Us Your Woodturning

Diana Pueppke started turning after being gifted a Shopsmith and focuses on segmented turnings which take more time, precision, and patience than ordinary turnings.

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Aspriring Woodworker

Learning the Craft of an Aspiring Woodworker
By Marshall Knox

In years past, people acquired skills through a slow process of apprenticeship. Long hours under the watchful eye of a master craftsman. Today some may still follow that path though traditional apprenticeships are not as plentiful. But there are many other paths...

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Build 25 Beautiful Boxes

Book Review:
Build 25
Beautiful Boxes

By J. Norman Reid

Perhaps you're looking for ideas about small things you can build as gifts. Like many of us, you may have an abundance of leftover scraps just too good to burn but too small for furniture. Whatever your motive, Build 25 Beautiful Boxes may be a great way to meet your needs.

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Woodturning Figurines

Meet the Oak Family
A Demonstration of Woodturning
By Temple Blackwood

Demonstrating woodturning is an excellent way for woodturners and woodworkers to further develop skills and to share the learning experience. One of Temple's most popular demonstrations is turning various wooden figurines based on the person
or family who is watching the demo.

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Poll: Woodworking News

Poll: How Do You Get Your Woodworking News and Project Ideas?

Back in the day, woodworking project inspiration mostly came from magazines and public television. Once the internet came along, we now have a variety of sources including YouTube channels, blogs, forums and how-to websites. This month we want to know how you get your woodworking news and inspiration?

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Flattening Agents

Finishing:
Flattening Agent
Mistakes and Remedies
By Alan Noel

Alan recently learned that when you wet sand a satin finish you can level the flattening agent, which can actually be very beneficial when you've made a finishing mistake.

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