Simon Watts
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PROJECT: Occasional Table
Our author’s boat-building roots stay just below the surface during the construction of this attractive and sturdy little table.
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PROJECT: Mahogany Ladies’ Desk
Graceful curves and delicate inlay give this attractive, three-drawered desk immediate appeal. Build it in just a few shop sessions.
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PROJECT: Elegant Floor Lamp
Floor lamps are expensive to buy and are often disappointingly flimsy when you get them home. This lamp is stylish, solid and remarkably affordable.
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Easy-to-Build Benches
These easy-to-make benches are attractive and practical. Our author suggests you size them to fit your needs.
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Elegant Floor Lamp Feet Pattern
To help you create this project, we’ve provided the full-size drawing of the feet for the base of the lamp.
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Boatbuilding Books
Over the centuries boatbuilding terms have become an integral part of our vocabulary–although the origins may be obscure.
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Making Box Joints
This is a useful joint which can be made with four cuts on the table saw.
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Making Scarf Joints
Measure twice and cut once is still good advice for the novice woodworker, but having cut a board too short is only one reason to lengthen it by scarfing.
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Using Drift Pins
I recently made an outdoor picnic table, and deliberately left gaps between adjacent planks.
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Japanese Saws
Last summer a local fisherman, visiting my island workshop in Nova Scotia, picked up a new Japanese saw lying on the bench.
