Rob Johnstone
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It’s Woodworking! (Cabinetmaking That Is)
Thank you for all the comments and answers. I can always count on you to offer an answer to a difficult question. Last issue I asked if cabinetmaking was woodworking. (Specifically if you are using huge 1,000-lb sheets of melamine. I know that I said they were 90 lbs. in my last e-mail. After a couple of weekends of hefting and cutting them, I have to admit — I was just wrong.)
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The Real Wood Bible: from Firefly Books
Using full color photography, this book addresses how to identify 100 species of common and exotic wood, but it goes much further than that.
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Cabinetry: Is it Woodworking?
This weekend I was making sawdust … of a sort. Our laundry room will shortly be outfitted with melamine cabinetry, made by yours truly. I used a bunch of skills that are based on woodworking (measuring, sawing, gluing and clamping), but a question that I have is this: Should I call it woodworking?
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Ryobi Trim Router
For those of us in on the secret, trim routers have long been one of the handiest portable power tools in the shop.
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Hot Weather Woodworking
I don’t know where you live, but here in Minnesota recently it has been stinking hot. Now ordinarily, those of us, whom Garrison Keiller calls, “God’s frozen people,” don’t complain a lot about warm weather — we’re just happy not to have to shovel our precipitation at the end of a day. But the last hot spell has taxed even the fabled “Minnesota Nice.”
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Rockler’s Easy New EZ Clutch
When it comes to helping woodworkers glue and clamp-up their project with ease, the folks at Rockler are on a really good roll.
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You Asked…I Don’t Know Why
you may well imagine, I get a fair number of e-mails as a result of this eZine. I try to answer as many as I can, but often I am overwhelmed. (To answer 400 e-mails, if each one took, say, three to five minutes to read and answer, that would add up to … well — a lot of hours … maybe even days?
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Steel City Tools: A New Stationary Power Tool Company
A new power tool is all that it takes to get my attention – present 30 new ones all at once and you’ve earned my undivided “deer in the headlights” attention.
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Coming Soon: Tool Geek Nirvana!
Some exciting things are happening in the woodworking world, and I for one can’t wait to see the chips start flying. If you click over to our Tool Preview story, you’ll read about a brand new line of tools that will be launched this summer. (Made by some good old boys who know what they are doing.)
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Ryobi Drill Press DP102L and DP121L
A drill press is one of those woodworking tools that, once you buy one, you have a hard time understanding how you got along without one.
