Wood Preparation
Your benchtop planer takes a beating in normal use. Give it routine maintenance for glassy-smooth results board after board.
There's no such thing as the perfect board. But you can salvage a lot of "challenged" lumber using these tricks.
The WOOD team spends the day at Senior Design Editor Kevin Boyle's home, milling lumber from logs.
Where can I get properly sized dowels? When I buy 3⁄4
" dowels, they always seem to be slightly undersized.
I tried to sand some pencil marks off plywood and ended up sanding through the veneer. Nuts! How do I remove pencil marks without ruining the plywood?
After epoxying a curved part nearly 8' long, I’m stuck wondering how to straighten the messy sides.
How do I know whether to use a bit with the bearing on top or a bit with the bearing on the bottom when making duplicate project parts?
It seems like every pine board I buy from the home center soon warps and becomes almost unusable. How can I stop this?
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