Woodworking Videos

3 Reasons to Use Quarter Sawn Wood

March 7, 2017 By George Vondriska & filed under Skill Building, Understanding Wood.

Quarter-sawn wood costs about twice as much as plain-sawn. So, why use it? In order to understand the benefits (and extra cost) let’s look at how the material is milled from a tree. Imagine this is a log ready to go through a sawmill. I’ve sketched out plain-sawn cuts on the bottom half, and quarter-sawn cuts on the…

Modern Media Cabinet Part 4: Drawer Bank Construction and Assembly

August 22, 2012 By Paul Mayer and Seth Keller & filed under Cabinetry, Plans and Projects, Woodworking Projects.

In the previous installment of this project, we constructed the horizontal stretchers complete with tenons. Now we will focus on building the drawer bank using plywood joined with biscuits. We will also assemble the cabinet in two stages to simplify this otherwise complex glue-up. See Diagram C for details on construction of the drawer bank.…

Modern Media Cabinet Part 3: Tenons and Edge Banding

August 9, 2012 By Paul Mayer and Seth Keller & filed under Cabinetry, Plans and Projects, Woodworking Projects.

In the previous installment of this project, we performed the milling operations on the legs, including mortises and tapers. Now we will turn our attention to the stretchers that join with the rails, milling tenons and arches where appropriate, as well as applying iron-on veneer banding to exposed plywood edges. Prepare the Stock Cut all…

Modern Media Cabinet Part 2: Mortises and Tapered Legs

July 25, 2012 By Paul Mayer and Seth Keller & filed under Cabinetry, Plans and Projects, Woodworking Projects.

In part one of this series, we provided an overview of the project as well as scaled drawings. Here we will begin construction of the project, starting with the legs where we will mill mortises that will join the face frame as well as side and rear rails. We will also taper the legs at…

Modern Media Cabinet Part 1: Introduction

July 10, 2012 By Paul Mayer and Seth Keller & filed under Cabinetry, Plans and Projects, Woodworking Projects.

In need of a media cabinet to house electronics gear for a new home theater room, I went to Seth Keller (WWGOA Contributing Editor and professional designer) for design assistance. My requirements were to allow for a large flat panel TV to sit on top (although mine is currently mounted to the wall above the…

Repair Veneer on an Antique

May 2, 2012 By David Munkittrick & filed under Gluing and Clamping, Skill Building.

A recent restoration job required that I replace the badly damaged oak veneer on the top of an antique table. The piece was an old salesman sample of a sewing table. Back in the day,salesmen would bring these scale models on sales calls. This sample was from the White Sewing Company but the quartersawn white…