Sometimes large pipe clamps are just too big for a small gluing project. I was making a picture frame in my garage and found these small spring clamps, which are perfect for gluing strips of wood around the outside of my frame. Notice how the rubber tips protect the wood from the
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I love old crocks, like this 12-gallon stoneware crock given to me by my grandmother. It had lost its original top, so I decide to make one from some old wood that would turn an empty crock into, well, take a look and see for yourself . . . .
After gluing together some old boards
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We’re looking at a hundred year old floor, right? Well, not quite. This is a floor I laid just fourteen years ago using recycled Southern yellow pine boards nailed down with new square-headed nails. Rather than hide the nails, I let them show to help give the impression of a floor
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I would nominate this chest of drawers as one of the best examples I have seen of turning ordinary, inexpensive pine into something very special. (And not just because my wife Leigh Ann did it!) Her secret: use plenty of Minwax® Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner, followed by one of the lighter
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