Extracting Screws from Reclaimed Wood, Part 3: Cutting Around Stubborn Fasteners
After the more surgical extraction methods fail, your last resort is to cut around the fastener and remove it with the wood surrounding it.
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Make Your Own Copper Hardware
It’s surprisingly simple to make your own Stickley-style pulls. The simple lines and honest joinery of the Arts & Crafts period have always appealed to me. The fumed quartersawn white oak and the warm patina of the copper hardware …
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Mechanical Drawer Slides
Furniture maker Mark Edmundson explains the differences between the three basic slide options: basic bottom-mount slides, side-mount slides, and undermount slides.
Read moreExtracting Screws from Reclaimed Wood
Yoav Liberman demonstrates a few tried and true methods for removing stubborn screws in reclaimed lumber.
Read moreReplacing an old Hope Chest Lock – Part 3
After reducing the volume of the original half-mortise using two strips of wood and addressing the crack in the shallow recess of the catch plate (read part two of the story here), I decided to fill the old screw …
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