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ShopNotes No. 28
Features
Jigs & Accessories
4 / Vertical Glue-Up Station
Gluing up solid wood panels is easy with this shop-built jig. And it doubles as a storage rack for your pipe clamps.
Shop Project
8 / Shop Stool
Comfort and strength. Two reasons why this may be the only stool you’ll ever build for your shop.
Shop Project
11 / Routing Tenons on Dowels
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.
Technique
12 / Gluing Up Panels
Tips and techniques for gluing up an attractive solid wood panel that’s perfectly flat — and stays flat.
Feature Project
16 / Drilling Guide
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.
Departments
Great Tips
14 / Sharpening Tips
A roundup of our best sharpening tips that will keep your chisels and plane irons in top shape.
Small Shop
20 / Small Shop Layout
Make a small shop work “big” by planning workflow, tool groups, and infeed/outfeed requirements.
Selecting Tools
22 / Portable Thickness Planers
Our team tests six popular, portable thickness planers and offers practical suggestions on the best one to buy.
Readers' Tips
28 / Shop Solutions
ShopNotes’ readers offer their own solutions to some of the most common woodworking problems.
Lumberyard
30 / Crotchwood
The dramatic grain patterns of crotchwood can turn an ordinary project into something special.