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Recently I finished building a coffee table, the frame of which is built with mortise and tenon joints. In this design there are fourteen joints which is the most of a single joint I’ve had to cut in a single project (not counting every dovetail as singular) and if there is one gap or weakness…

If you read the key to killer dovetails, you know as well as I do that good dovetails come over time with lots of practice. This being said I try to – and enjoy – a little dovetail project periodically (if not a big one). To begin I will conclude that the dovetails is not about…

A few weeks ago I came across a photo on Paul Sellers blog that struck me. Near the end of the post he had a photo of a stack of picture frames and mentioned that it was a new design he had created. They were simple picture frames with what looked like half-lapped corners with a twist.…

This is a quick and simple project I knocked out soon after building my Nicholson workbench, and a perfect trial run for regular operations like sawing, planing, joining, chiseling and assembly. It’s a practical and cheap piece of furniture that we use as a tv stand but really could be any number of things –…