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Winter 2012-2013

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Tom Caspar > Blog

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  • Spice Cabinet Secret Drawer

    by Tom Caspar     Tuesday, July 7, 2009
    What's behind the door of Al Hudson's William and Mary Spice Cabinet? A beautifully-proportioned set of small drawers. Behind the drawers, there's a very cleverly designed secret drawer. To access this drawer, you must first remove two drawers...

  • Half-Round Table

    by Tom Caspar     Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    Here's one of my first serious woodworking projects, completed quite a few years ago. It's a simple version of a classic form: the demi-lune table, popular in the Federal period. My kids called it a "half-round" table, and the name stuck...

  • Selma's Desk 1

    by Tom Caspar     Saturday, February 21, 2009
    When I was a kid, I always looked forward to getting a birthday card from my grandmother, Selma Halvorson. The five dollar bill inside the card could sure buy a lot of candy in those days. This is the desk that Selma sat at when she wrote birthday cards...

  • Ted's Altar 1

    by Tom Caspar     Tuesday, February 24, 2009
    I'm a P.K. A preacher's kid, that is. My father, who passed away a year ago, was a Lutheran pastor. Ted didn't know a lick about woodworking, but he was a great admirer of contemporary furniture design. A couple of years ago, I built this...

  • Changing of the Knives

    by Tom Caspar     Monday, March 9, 2009
    How did you spend your weekend? Well, I put in a couple of hours getting ready for a new project here in the American Woodworker shop. I hadn't changed the knives in our jointer for over a year–can you believe it? Our jointer's cutterhead...

  • Unplugged Woodshop: Some Video!

    by Tom Caspar     Monday, March 23, 2009
    If you want a genuine taste of what woodworking was like before power tools, check out this silent film, from 1923, on wooden clog making in Sweden. Amazing! Here's the link: Making Clogs [Many thanks to John W of the local Society of American Period...

  • Shed Doors 4: Curved Rails

    by Tom Caspar     Monday, April 13, 2009
    Last summer, I added a small shed to my old garage. I hung some temporary plywood doors, and built the real doors in the shop here at American Woodworker. Here are links to the first three parts of the story: Shed Doors 1 and Shed Doors 2 and Shed Doors...

  • The Unplugged Woodshop: Tom's Torsion Box Workbench

    by Tom Caspar     Monday, February 23, 2009
    If you love hand tools, you gotta have a good, solid workbench. No two ways about it. But if you have hardly any tools to start with, how are you going to build one? I designed this bench on a dare. Sometime back in the mid 90's, a student said, "I'm...

  • Shed Doors 5: Raised Panels

    by Tom Caspar     Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    Last summer, I added a small shed to my old garage. I hung some temporary plywood doors, and built the real doors in the shop here at American Woodworker. Here are links to the first four parts of the story: Shed Doors 1 and Shed Doors 2 and Shed Doors...

  • Shed Doors 6: Hinge Mortises

    by Tom Caspar     Sunday, April 26, 2009
    Last summer, I added a small shed to my old garage. I hung some temporary plywood doors, and built the real doors in the shop here at American Woodworker. Here are links to the first five parts of the story: Shed Doors 1 and Shed Doors 2 and Shed Doors...

  • Kubb Carrier

    by American Woodworker Editors     Monday, April 11, 2011
    Kubb Carrier I designed this tote box to hold the set of ash and walnut Kubb pieces that are featured in the June/July 2011 issue of American Woodworker. The box is made from 1/2" Baltic birch plywood, Honduras mahogany and standard 1" corner...

  • Shed Doors 1: Huge Mortises

    by Tom Caspar     Friday, March 27, 2009
    I built a shed last summer, as a small addition to my turn-of-the-century one-car garage. I've been a woodworker for umpteen years now, but I've never done any carpentry work before. Go figure. I couldn't resist the challenge of building custom...

  • Shed Doors 2: Big Tenons

    by Tom Caspar     Monday, March 30, 2009
    Last summer, I added a small shed to my old garage. I hung some temporary plywood doors, and built the real doors in the shop here at American Woodworker. Here's a link to the first part of the story: Shed Doors 1. I've mortised the stiles, and...

  • Shed Doors 3: Fitting Tenons

    by Tom Caspar     Saturday, April 4, 2009
    Last summer, I added a small shed to my old garage. I hung some temporary plywood doors, and built the real doors in the shop here at American Woodworker. Here are links to the first two parts of the story: Shed Doors 1 and Shed Doors 2 . OK, the last...

  • Selma's Desk 2

    by Tom Caspar     Saturday, March 7, 2009
    This Danish Modern desk (see Selma's Desk 1 ) has a beautifully-constructed top. It's a clever combination of solid teak and teak veneer. The top has 5-1/2" wide breadboard ends, as shown above. The main portion of the top is composed of...
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