Ralph Bagnall

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Articles from Ralph Bagnall

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  How to Make Moldings for Card Table with India Ink, Router and Table Saw

  Making small moldings is a delicate and precise task, executed with your table saw, router table, and if you want a darker tone for the card table plan, India ink.

  
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  How Do You Cut Fluting or Reeds on a Lathe Jig with an Indexing Wheel

  Accurately cutting fluting and reeds on a lathe without indexing can be difficult, but even a paper indexing wheel and a shopmade jig can make these cuts easy.

  
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  Envelope Card Table Project

  Perfect for family card and board games, this envelope card table has a drawer to store your games and folds up into an attractive end table when you’re done.

  
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  Plane and Simple Woodworking: Handplane Stock Prep

  Hand planes can take on a key role in your workshop, from planing large panels too big for standard planers to evening out the smallest parts.

  
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  Plane and Simple Woodworking: Why Scrapers?

  Rather than sanding a project down, one easy to use alternative is a scraper, which works like a fine hand plane to smooth out most any wood

  
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  Plane and Simple Woodworking: Jack Planes

  Jack planes are mid-sized hand planes perfect for planing doors, panels, and creating and paring down joint edges before you start glue-ups.

  
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  Plane and Simple Woodworking: Block Planes

  Block planes might seem like a antique from a different era of woodworking, but hand planes have a place in almost any modern shop for multiple tasks.

  
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  Back to Woodworking Basics: Do Your Tape Skills Measure Up?

  Exploring the intricacies of your shop’s tape measure and the difference between different measuring tools can help you understand your projects better.

  
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  Back to Woodworking Basics – Mark Your Mark II

  From antique furniture construction to modern handcrafting in a workshop, the marking gauge is an invaluable tool for laying out construction.

  
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  How to Mark a Multi-sleeve Rolling Pin with a Box Router Jig Instead of a Lathe

  Just because you don’t have a lathe doesn’t mean you can’t turn, the author creates a multi-sleeve rolling pin with a simple box jig and his router.