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A Hatchet Job
Straight edge hatchet job from Jim Tolpin on Vimeo. Working without a bandsaw (or any other power tool) I've been forced to get up to speed with my…
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Sector Secrets
The theory and construction of a sector is covered in both our books, though in the softcover “By Hound and Eye”…
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That Snappy Sector
Another primary use of the sector is to quickly find or create a whole number proportional relationship between two dimensions--say the width of a box to its height.…
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Algebra vs. Geometry Smackdown
[caption id="attachment_120" align="alignleft" width="736"] Ouch![/caption] So how do you go about evenly spacing out the slats on a design such as a headboard (as the example shown…
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Going ‘Round the Bend
This sketch shows an old boatbuilding scheme for figuring out how tight (used to be called “quick”) a certain thickness of wood will bend. (The wood is usually…