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Cabinet Making Using The Festool Domino
There are many ways to construct cabinets that have mid panel joinery as part of their structure. I mostly use rebates for this style of joinery but for this project I reached for the Festool Domino.
Jigs Maketh The Chair
Masters drill the angled holes required to make stick chairs free hand, us mere mortals use jigs! Jigs are not only used for drilling the humble angled hole, better known as a mortise, they help simplify many aspects of stick chair making, from measuring where that confusing sightline should be to checking if the tenon might actually go into the mortise. The right jigs bring you a step closer to actually making a chair that stands by itself! I tell you more about the ones I use and where you can find instructions on building your own!
How I Manage The Inch In A Metric Workshop
Millimetre or inch, we all have our favourite but sometimes we need to cross the divide to be able to build. The reality is that it’s more often than not that an inch needs to become a millimetre and I give you six options to easily convert from one to the other. Just do it and get on with making stuff ok!?
Build Knock Down Furniture With Festool
The Festool DF 500 connector system, five small parts with massive potential. Over the past few months I have built six pieces of knock down furniture on client commissions and the system has opened a whole new thinking about the results that it can help me achieve.