One of the last steps before assembling a project is sanding. All planing, cutting, and forming should be completed before beginning to use sandpaper. Sanding is done only to finish the...
Category: Woodcraft Lessons
Would you be surprised to know that there are over a hundred different types of woodworking joints? Of course, there are many that are similar, but each is used to join two pieces of wood together...
You would find woodworking pretty dull if everything were made in flat, straight planes. Curves, geometric designs, and shapes in the form of animals and other representations of nature add beauty...
When you begin to make larger projects, one of the first things you are confronted with is the necessity for gluing up several pieces of stock to form a larger surface area. Sometimes this will...
Planing end grain is more difficult than planing the face or edge with the grain because, in planing the end, you will actually be cutting off ends of the fibers. This difficulty necessitates an...
The first surface that you choose to plane should be the best flat surface of the piece. It should be free of imperfections and should be the side with the most interesting grain, since it will...