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If you’re going to invest the time and effort to make a high-quality piece of furniture such as the heirloom dresser on p. 31, you’re going to want to put the same kind of care into making the drawers as you do into making the rest of the piece. To me, this means dovetail joinery: half blinds at the front, and through at the rear. 

Some years ago, I had the good fortune of having a tall dresser I designed and built appear in Bill Hylton’s Chests of Drawers (Taunton Press 2002). Ever since, I’ve wanted to build a companion piece to complement it. Recently, after my wife hinted that her aging, hand-me-down dresser had seen better days, it seemed a good time to revisit that desire.

Powermatic has introduced its new ArmorGlide Technology. It is an industrial-grade coating used in their bandsaws, table saws, and jointers, giving them more durability, rust resistance and low friction work surfaces. Learn more in this article and video! 

Traditional steel turning tools work well for a lot of applications. But when I absolutely need a razor-sharp edge and want to reduce the risk of a catch, as when turning the spindle of the Inside-Out Cake Stand (Oct/Nov 2023), I turn to carbide-tipped scrapers.

I love cake. Whether angel’s food, devil’s food, coffee, carrot, or cheese, cut me a slice. And no matter the occasion, if cake is involved, it usually means something special is going on. So whether your cake is store-bought, homemade, or from a box, it ought to be the center of attention. I designed this stand to elevate any cake to its rightful place.

As every schoolchild and budding physicist knows, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line—or is it? This wooden desktop demonstration is one of a series I call Gravitational Illusions.