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• FWW: VIDEO WORKSHOP SERIES #7 GARDEN BENCH

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  Design outdoor furniture to weather well. How to Build a Garden Bench opens with furniture maker Hank Gilpin offering seasoned advice on designing pieces to withstand the elements and age gracefully. Then, woodworker Matt Kenney guides you step by step through the process of constructing this gorgeous garden bench on this DVD, that includes a Bonus SketchUp Plan. Advance your joinery skills. Working on this project, you’ll learn how to make tight-fitting mortise-and-tenon joints that are key to sturdy outdoor furniture – a technique you can put to good use on future projects. Plus, you get an experienced woodworker’s take on the subtle art of shaping the curved elements that define this piece. Expert tips to work smarter and faster. Save time as you discover simple methods for turning out lightening-fast mortises, two great ways to tenon, and tips for no-fuss, no-muss gluing up. As you build this artfully designed bench, you’ll also increase your know-how and advance your skills. Order your How to Build a Garden Bench DVD now. About the authors Matt Kenney – Watertown, Connecticut A teacher of philosophy before he started working as an editor at Fine Woodworking, Matt Kenney started building furniture as a hobby. His first big project was a crib for his daughter constructed on a 2 ft. by 10 ft. apartment balcony. Then Matt met Joe Mazurek, a professional furniture maker in Camden, SC., who, according to Matt, “taught me almost everything I know about the craft.” Hank Gilpin – a Connecticut native Hank Gilpin has been designing and building fine art furniture for 30 years. A graduate of Boston University with a degree in photojournalism, he served in Vietnam as an army photographer. He was introduced to woodworking by Tage Frid at the Rhode Island School of Design. Hank is best known for the traditional, sturdy benches he builds in his home shop – a converted church.

• TURNING BOXES - DVD

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  Internationally acclaimed woodturner Richard Raffan demonstrates how to make turned boxes with suction-fit lids in this 55-minute video. Raffan reveals the tricks you need to know when turning boxes and shows you step-by-step how to make three challenging types. You'll learn how to: make a perfect suction-fit lid manipulate skew chisels and parting tools turn decorative top knots and finials back-hollow and chuck fix cracks and splits recover from mistakes sand and apply a wax finish DVD also available as a video, see item 22-83. Item 16-144 is the book for this video and DVD.

• BOWL TURNING - DVD

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  Del Stubbs shows you how to turn beautiful bowls and plates. You can start with dry lumber or with green wood you cut yourself. The camera zooms in close to see the careful contact of edge on wood and then moves back so you can study various tool positions, grips and stances. You will learn about: cutting tool types and modification of standard tools grinding and honing chisels gripping various turning tools mounting bowl blanks and roughing out the shape modifying a standard lathe controlling warp in the thin wall of a bowl cutting into endgrain designing bowl forms DVD, also available as a video, see item 22-3.

• SKETCH UP FOR WOODWORKERS PART 2: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

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  In this nearly two-hour long video, I show you techniques for adding details to your models. Want to include raised panel doors with cope-and-stick joints to your project? It's easier than you think. How about dovetailed drawers? You'll learn the secrets of making the first part of the joint quickly, then copying those dovetails everywhere you need them. The class also covers things like turned parts and cabriole legs. Unlike other videos for learning SketchUp, these videos are presented by a woodworker, and concentrate on making woodworking projects. Click below to see a preview of this session.

• HAND PLANING AND SHARPENING - DVD

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  Subtitle: “Bench-side instruction on sharpening and using hand planes.“ A clear presentation of hand planing basics focusing on four tools -- the No. 4 1/2 Smooth Plane, the No. 60 1/2 Low Angle Adjustable Mouth Block Plane, the No. 8 Jointer and the No. 60 1/2R Rabbet Block Plane. Includes a demonstration of reliable sharpening techniques.