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Woodshop News, 1 May 2026

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The latest in woodworking and wood tools, guide for creation, features and insights from top craftspeople.

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ArticleCHOOSING AND USING ABRASIVES:

The wide belt sander slows slightly as a freshly glued maple work­bench top passes under the platen. The motor does not stall, but the sound changes — subtly at first. The abras­ive belt, loaded with resin and dust, has stopped cut­ting effi­ciently....

CHOOSING AND USING ABRASIVES:

ArticleCREATING A SHARED EXPERIENCE:

Bradlyn Zim­mer­man of the Ole Wood Shack in Pleas­ant Hall, Pennsylvania, just out­side Har­ris­burg, offers cus­tom fur­niture with live edge and river tables as his sig­na­ture products. Zim­mer­man star­ted the busi­ness in 2020 after years...

CREATING A SHARED EXPERIENCE:

ArticlePICK YOUR PACKAGE:

Ipro­grammed my first com­puter numer­ical con­trol (CNC) machine around 1996. Back then, every X, Y and Z coordin­ate needed to be known and writ­ten into a text file to run the machine. It was a 2.5-axis oper­a­tion, and even a simple cab­inet side...

PICK YOUR PACKAGE:

ArticleCONTROLLING SPRAY AND VAPORS:

Mod­ern fin­ish­ing has never been more effi­cient. Tech­no­lo­gies like HVLP, cata­lyzed fin­ishes and improved water-based for­mu­las deliver con­sist­ent res­ults faster than ever. Yet, these advances still pro­duce spray and vapors — the least...

CONTROLLING SPRAY AND VAPORS: