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| Cardio Woodworking or Frame and Panel Construction the Way Norm Doesn't |
| Building a frame and panel door using only hand tools, by Jamie Amrine of the SE Michigan Woodworkers. |
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| Making a Raised Panel Door |
| Using only non-powered hand tools, from the ilikerust website. |
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| Raising Panels |
| How to do this without any power tools – good write-up with plenty of illustrations by John Gunterman. |
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| Squaring Stock using Hand Tools |
| Good pictorial overview from Dave Chaynie's site. |
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| Thicknessing Stock by Hand |
| Once you've squared the stock, get it to the right thickness, from Dave Chaynie's site. |
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| Home Made Scroll Saw |
| Part 1 and Part 2. Nifty plans from Nailbender's website. |
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| Arts & Crafts Movement |
| Overview with links of this very important movement in furniture design. |
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| Angle Calculator |
| Galoot Christopher Swingly has posted all of the rise/run requirements for every integer angle from 0 to 90 for setting an adjustable bevel from a common carpenter’s framing square. Thanks, Chris. |
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| Making a Beaded Back Panel |
| Scott Post teaches this using wooden molding planes. |
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| Proportions and the Use of the Golden Section in Furniture Design |
| Interesting little article about this ancient design technique, from Pete Mullard’s website, The Saw Horse. |
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| Cross Grain |
| Techniques for handling this age-old problem from Stephen Shepherd’s ILoveWood website. |
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| Handtool Basic - Hammers and Files |
| Good overview of different types of hammers and files with photos, from toolnewz.com. Include usage tips. |
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| Making and Using a Maul |
| from Gerald Findley's Ropeworks website. |
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| Hand Tool Basics #4 - Clamps |
| Article overview of various clamp types, from toolnewz.com. |
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| The Clamp Guy |
| Very complete site for collectors and users of wooden clamps. |
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| Splitting and Riving |
| The how-tos of working with the wood, rather than against it, from Stephen Shepherd’s ILoveWood website. |
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| Riving Wood for 17th Century Joint Furniture |
| Everything you wanted to know, complete with copious illustrations, from the authority, John Alexander, the author of Make A Chair from a Tree, from the Greenwoodworking website. |
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| Pouring Pewter Rings |
| This relatively simple technique can liven up any turning project, from the OldTools archive. |
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| Period Productivity |
| Interesting article from conservator Patrick Edwards about how long pre-industrial craftsmen took to construct furniture. From the Journal of Society of American Period Furniture Makers, reprinted on the author’s website. |
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| Plowing a Stopped Groove |
| A short page about using a stair saw, chisel and router plane to make a
stopped groove for a panel in frame and panel construction. |
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| The Two-Legged Parser |
| This is how craftsmen removed small shapes from pieces of wood before
the advent of CNC routers. This page could benefit from a little more
explanation, and especially pictures, of the parser in use, but it's a
good starting point. |
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| Splitting a Log |
| Great description of the process from Aussie Galoot John Manners about this most basic of Galoot activities. Culled from the OldTools Archives. |
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| A Galoot Method for Stock Preparation |
| A Galoot primer and classic on using hand tools to four-square a board, contributed by Yorkshireman Richard Wilson. A must read. |
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| Using Dowel Plates |
| Woodworking instructor David Charlesworth gives tips on saving short offcuts and reusing them by driving them through a metal plate to make short dowels out of them. Galoot recycling at its finest. |
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| 18th Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture Making Trades in Newport, RI |
| Fascniating article about the workings of furniture-making shops in the 1700s, including numerous figures by Mack Headley. Reprinted from American Furniture. |
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