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Inside This Issue

Shop Submissions Wanted
A Tale of Three Boxes
Women in Woodworking
Sharpen This, Part 5
Show Us Your Woodworking
Poll: New Project Inertia
Video: Wood Slicer Resaw Blade
Show Us Your Woodcarving
Resources for Reluctant Woodturners
Book Review: Joiner's Work
Tips From Sticks-In-The-Mud
Wooden Boxes

A Tale of Three Boxes
By Bob Rummer

Bob has made a lot of boxes in his woodworking days. After all, a box is usually one of the first things you make when you're learning how to do woodworking. But in this article Bob explains that there is something else to making boxes that they don't teach you in shop class.

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Show Us Your Shop

Show Us Your Shop

We're looking for more woodworking shop submissions! We invite you to SEND US PHOTOS of your woodworking shop along with captions and a brief history and description of your shop. (Email photos at 800x600 resolution.) Receive a $50 store credit if we show your submission in a future issue.

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Show Us Your Woodworking

We're sharing John Koenig's puzzle table projects which he made when he had some downtime before welcoming a new baby.

View John's Projects 		Show Us Your Woodcarving

Show Us Your Woodcarving

We're sharing Nathan Ward's carvings for the altar, lecture, and corpus for the cross that he made for the school where he teaches, which took him a total of 5 years to carve.

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Resources for Reluctant Woodturners

Turning the Corner: Resources for Reluctant Woodturners

As a teacher, Temple often finds many students (even woodworkers) who are a bit reluctant when it comes to learning how to turn. In this month's article, Temple discusses some tips and resources to get you started in woodturning.

Click here to read more 		Women in Woodworking

Women in Woodworking
Meet Alma Villalobos

This month, Char introduces us to Alma Villalobos, a maker based in Chicago, IL who runs Pink Soul Studios and is best known for her personalized custom push sticks and mallets.

Click here to read more 		Sticks in the Mud

Tips from Sticks
in the Mud

Jim continues his panel-making project by prepping the reused oak wood flooring, and also shares a money-saving tip on homemade Painter's Pyramids.

Click here to read more 		Poll: Project Inertia

Poll: New Project Inertia

This month's poll asks "When it's time to start a new project, what's your response?"

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Joiner's Work'

Book Review:
Joiner's Work by Peter Follansbee

Joiner's Work will appeal to green woodworkers as yet another take on what's possible in the medium. But even more, it will appeal to those with an interest in 17th century carved furniture and those who fancy trying their hand at carving decorations on their oak and other pieces.

Click here to read more 		Broad Axes Explained

Video: Wood Slicer Resaw Bandsaw Blade Product Tour

The Wood Slicer Resaw Bandsaw Blade cuts straight and smooth on bandsaws of all sizes. In this resawing video we demonstrate just how effectively our blade resaws on 10 inch, 14 inch and 18 inch bandsaws

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Click here to watch 		Chris Schwarz

Sharpen This, Part 5
The Myth of Super Sharpnesss
By Christopher Schwarz

Chris Schwarz discusses the "Myth of Super Sharpness" and suggests an ideal edge sharpness that will allow you to get back to woodworking more quickly.

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