Doll Wardrobe Project: Main Carcass
I’ve been busy lately working on the doll wardrobe project.  As I discussed in Episode 52, this project is a wardrobe designed to hold the clothes and accessories for my daughter’s American Girl doll.  It’s going to be a Christmas present and I’ve still got a lot of work to do. A quick peek at my sketchbook will give you a frame

Sometimes You Do Whatever It Takes
Sometimes you do whatever it takes to keep a project flat and square during a glue-up.

Adjustable Dado Jig
As I discussed in Episode 52, I’m currently building a doll wardrobe as a Christmas present for my daughter.  I’m using 3/4” birch plywood for the main carcass, and 1/2” birch plywood for the interior dividers.  The interior dividers will be housed in stopped dados. My original plan was to use a plywood-sized router bit and an edge guide to cut the stopped dados.  Unfortunately, my test cuts showed that even my plywood bits provided a very loose fit for my 1/2” plywood.  My fallback in situations like this is usually a dado stack on the table saw, but that doesn’t

Episode 52: The Great Magazine Clean-Out
Click here to play In this episode, I give an overview of the holiday projects I currently have going in my shop, I explain my plan to control the avalanche of woodworking magazine back issues that are filling my house, and I introduce a new mailbag segment where I answer listeners questions.