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Cutting a Partial Sphere Safely

Cutting a Partial Sphere

Putting the final touches on an install that I did recently, I had to cut some bun feet to size.  The tile floor had been installed after the vanity cabinets, and the bun feet were now to tall to fit under the cabinet, about 3/8″ of an inch needed to be cut from the

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Installing Concealed Hinges

Installing Concealed Hinges

Installing concealed hinges can be a pretty simple process, even using a hand held drill, with the help of a jig.  The Rockler Concealed Hinge JIG works really well at positioning the Forstner bit, as well as holding it square to the door frame surface and finally controlling the depth of the hole.  Of

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Installing shelf edgebanding

Applying iron on wood shelf edgebanding

After drilling the shelf support pin holes, the next step was to prepare the cabinet shelving.  As the cabinets are to be painted, I just use 3/4″ plywood for the shelves and apply iron on wood edging to the edges to conceal the raw edges.

I like to apply the edge banding to the

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Router feed direction and bit rotation

I recently purchased a set of Rockler’s Bench Cookies.  I’ve been reading about them all over the internet and no doubt I’m probably the last woodworker in the world to have purchased a set   I was excited to try them out and thought I would combine it with an article about router feed

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Drilling for a handle on a drawer

I got this neat tip for marking out the holes on a drawer to drill for a handle from a recent issue of Fine Woodworking. In the course of my work I put a lot of hardware on cabinets. I have a jig for marking the doors and drawers. The typical distance between centers

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