Category: Techniques

Things I've made and what making them taught me

Surfacing and Thickness Planing with a Router

Fine Woodworking recently ran an article about surfacing live edge slabs with a router.  I have to admit, that got me thinking about doing a live edge table.  So I got out the router sled that I built to surface my workbench and I decided to snap some pictures of the process. I drove an …

Bent Lamination

A project I’m working on incorporates a 40″ diameter arch as a key design feature.  This being the first bent lamination I’ve tried, I took some pictures I figured I’d share here.  I chose to use epoxy for the lamination because I couldn’t seem to find urea formaldehyde glue anywhere around here, and I figured …