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Once rust starts on a cast iron tabletop, is it too late to stop it?

What’s the most important thing you need for woodworking? OK, that was a trick question meant to get you guessing about tools and supplies, but the real answer is much simpler: Without wood, you can’t do much woodworking. Having a ready supply of lumber in basic lengths and thicknesses is a basic shop staple. Lumber needs vary according to the type of woodworking you do, but how much you actually keep on hand depends on the amount of room you have in your shop and how efficiently you store it. !

Solid forms for steam bending or laminating on come in all different shapes and sizes and may be made for a variety of processes, such as bent lamination and steam bending. Forms come in two formats: a single bending form and two-part bending form. They can be made out of chip board, MDF, plywood or solid wood depending on the needed tenacity and materials on hand. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

> Let’s imagine for a moment that the old woodworking adage, “You can never have enough clamps,” isn’t true. If you really did have enough clamps, where would you put them all? Fortunately, that’s a problem none of us will have to worry about, but what about the clamps we do have? If you’re like me, even though you don’t have enough clamps, you do have quite a lot. And with a lot of clamps of varying sizes and types, the key to storing clamps is accessibility.Here are several clamp storage solutions.

In this Rockler demo we are sharing a video from Woodworker's Journal that demonstrates how you can use a plunge router and the Leigh FMT Pro Frame Mortise and Tenon Jig to cut strong, perfectly fitting mortise and tenon joints in no time. Easily rout single, double, twin, quadruple or even triple mortise and tenon joints, plus angled and compound-angled joints, in stock up to 3" x 5".

Is it safe to put your woodworking shop in an area with a pilot light?

A rub collar mortising template is used primarily for cutting mortises into odd, shaped components such as curved parts. You can use them to cut standard mortises as well but, sometimes other machines are better suited for that. How it works is simple. There is a template that’s made with a window that allows a rub collar to ride in the template. The rub collar attaches to the base of a router and allows a router cutter to come up through the top and cut a mortise into something. This video was produced for its free video library by The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. The Center is a nonprofit, international woodworking school dedicated to providing the best possible education in wood craftsmanship and design.

Whether you're planning to build your first workshop or you're looking for ideas to improve your existing workshop, our new Build Up Your Shop Guide has you covered. It's a collection of more than 50 articles, videos and free project plans that will help you make the most out of your woodworking shop space.

These innovative jigs make it easy to create beautiful and strong joints for your woodworking projects.

In this video, Michael Alm and Jason Hibbs complete their five day, no plan speedboat construction project.

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