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Video: Advancing Your Skills, Ep3 – Bedside Cabinet – Introduction
In this episode of Advancing Your Skills, Ian Kirby introduced you to the featured bedside cabinet project and explains the frame and panel construction that was used to build it….
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Video: Advancing Your Skills, Ep4 – Fitting a Door and Choosing Hardware
In this episode of Advancing Your Skills, Ian Kirby demonstrates how to fit a door in a cabinet, install the hinges, and hang the door. Advancing Your Skills is the…
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Video: Advancing Your Skills, Ep5 – Standing Desk – Introduction
In this episode of Advancing Your Skills, Ian Kirby demonstrates how to fit a door in a cabinet, install the hinges, and hang the door. Advancing Your Skills is the…
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Gluing Ivory over Wood?
…glues work well on it, provided the mating surfaces are clean and true. Ian Kirby: Sand the pieces on the side you are going to glue to remove all the…
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Maximum Width for Edge-gluing Boards?
Is there a maximum width for each board if you are edge-gluing them together to make a panel? Ellis Walentine: Nope. Ian Kirby: There is no maximum width of board…
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What Is It Like to Work with Ginkgo?
No, not for memory, but for woodworking. What is it like to work with? Ian Kirby: That’s the vernacular for ginkgo biloba, an atypical timber. It grows in China and…
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Best Ways to Light a Workshop?
…more issues well worth considering (though often ignored). Ian Kirby: Can you see OK to work? Is it too dim or too bright? Yes there are guidelines, but at the…
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Back in the Saddle
…weeks) is just full of great woodworking related stories from front to back. Two articles will explain what I mean. The first is Ian Kirby’s article on single-lap dovetails. It…
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March/April 2014
…task. It involves several duplicate pieces: the builders encourage you to “jig up” every chance you get during construction. Bedroom Valet: Master woodworker Ian Kirby walks you through the thought…
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Wooden Shoes
As my friend Ian Kirby has told me, there was a time that we used wood for nearly everything we needed. Buckets, kitchen utensils, wheels, sidewalks — you name it….