Moxon’s Technique
Bill Pavlak helps us get past the hard-to-read parts of Joseph Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises” to discover a great way of cleaning up miters with a hand plane.
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Finding new ideas in old furniture
Bill Pavlak proves that the sit/stand desk fad is centuries old.
Read moreCutting side beads
Bill Pavlak provides four hand-tool approaches to classic molding.
Read moreMistakes are stories
Whether the goof-up happened today or back in Colonial times, the real story lies in how the woodworker recovered from it.
Read moreBuild a frame-and-panel door with hand tools – Part 2
Having created the frame in Part 1, Bill Pavlak now focuses on making the raised panel.
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