Archive: A couple more woodworking snippets from WoodSmith

| May 25, 2025

As with previous archived tidbits, I’m saving two more from WoodSmith magazine this month that I might want to try. The one above is using painter’s tape to cut more precise hand-cut dovetails. If I try again, this might help?  The tip below the break is for pocket dowels and screws, a technique that I […]

Woodworking Snippets: Bandsaw template tracker and Doweling

| October 20, 2024

There is probably a better way to archive tips and articles from online magazines these days (it was easier when I just cut it out of the monthly paper magazine), but until then, saving snippets and tidbits to my blog is what I’ll do, even though I have a few ideas saved in my MacBook […]

Posting way too many woodworking magazine snippets lately

| September 8, 2024

If you’ve been checking in daily, you’re likely tired of seeing woodworking ideas, tidbits and magazine clipping? I’ll try to promise that this is the last of them in my “to archive on the blog” folder for a little while.  First, the Rockler sled is something I sort of already have … but still worth […]

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