July 1996
Issue 28

Gluing up solid wood panels is easy with this shop-built jig. And it doubles as a storage rack for your pipe clamps.

Comfort and strength. Two reasons why this may be the only stool you'll ever build for your shop.

A core box bit and a simple jig. That's all you need to rout tenons on the dowels used for the legs of the stool.

Tips and techniques for gluing up an attractive solid wood panel that's perfectly flat -- and stays flat.

A roundup of our best sharpening tips that will keep your chisels and plane irons in top shape.

Building a cabinet with adjustable shelves? A unique indexing system on this drilling guide lets you drill identically-spaced holes for both rows of shelf pins.

Make a small shop work "big" by planning workflow, tool groups, and infeed/outfeed requirements.

Our team tests six popular, portable thickness planers and offers practical suggestions on the best one to buy.

ShopNotes' readers offer their own solutions to some of the most common woodworking problems.

The dramatic grain patterns of crotchwood can turn an ordinary project into something special.