In this month’s handmade knives project demonstration, George Vondriska teaches you the essential woodworking tips and techniques you’ll need to make beautiful, one-of-a-kind handles for commercially crafted blades, including bandsaw cutting, rivet-making and blade placement. When making your own handles, you have total control over the customization. You can choose the type of wood used and the specialization of the knife (outdoor, kitchen utensil, etc.) and you get to enjoy the fruits of hard labor. So enjoy George’s step-by-step methods and then enjoy putting them to work!
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Cutting Plugs and Using Plug Cutters
Make nearly invisible covers for screw heads with plugs cut from the same wood as your woodworking project. George Vondriska guides you through the procedure for cutting plugs using a drill press, plug cutter bit, bandsaw and George’s secret weapon: masking tape.
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Cutting Laminate on a Table Saw
Master woodworker George Vondriska demonstrates the best way to safely cut perfectly straight plastic laminate with your table saw. You’ll learn that all you need are a couple of scraps to make a handy foolproof woodworking jig.
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Do I Really Need an Impact Driver?
Seeing is believing! Watch this demonstration and don’t be surprised if your next tool purchase is an impact driver. For more information about impact drivers, check out the related impact driver product review.
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Building a Kit Guitar
Building a guitar is an excellent test of a skilled woodworker’s craftsmanship, but if you’re like most people, you probably want to skip the long woodworking processes of shaping and sanding the body. So master woodworker George Vondriska gives you a quick rundown on a couple ready-made guitar kits that are available for you to…
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