Good learning for designers: Linn from Darbin Orvar consistently tackles projects with a holistic approach, and does a great job of explaining her process. She's got her own aesthetic style, the hand skills to build across multiple materials, the tech brain to cobble electronics together, and she analyzes her projects honestly in order to uncover and correct mistakes. This project is no exception:
Matthias Wandel re-thinks the typical shop solution of having a centralized dust collector by creating some new inventions:
This week Jimmy DiResta breaks out a plasma cutter, a cold chisel and a welding rig to create this solid steel anvil stand:
Here Izzy Swan demonstrates an unconventional way to easily make dowels by cleverly hacking together a jig involving a chisel and a cordless drill:
Swan also shows us a technique for creating decorative corners for boxes using a drill press and dowels:
Another from Swan, who shows us how to whip up a popular-selling item: Large wooden spoons for cooking.
Marc Spagnuolo reviews Powermatic's updated tenoning jig. Might be overkill if you're only cutting conventional tenons, but surely looks useful for those of you doing them at angles:
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I think you missed the main feature on the tenoning jig. He said you can cut tenons without any measuring or marking, the jig self aligns. This would be great if your were cutting more than a few tenons.