Techniques

Clamps: A Continuing Saga

Let’s face it, clamps are not the most glamorous of woodworking tools and knowing how to clamp is not usually thought of as an important woodworking skill. Perhaps that is because most clamping seems fairly straightforward, as in the photo on the right, where three c-clamps and their attendant glue-blocks work with four small bar-clamps … [Read more…]

A False Accuser Gets the Brush Off

As custom woodworkers, we often find ourselves having to make templates, cutters, jigs, or models that we use only once. Some special projects, however, require recycled tools. During our restoring of the reredos in Duke University Chapel we were faced with many elaborate and very dusty carvings too small to be cleaned except by the … [Read more…]