See Maloof at work building and see how his furniture embodies his ideas on craft, design, and technique.

Sam Maloof is one of the fathers of contemporary woodworking. Now in this profile of a master craftsman, you can see Maloof at work and home, and see how his furniture embodies his ideas on craft, design, and technique.

This visually rich documentary spans a week with Maloof while he builds and discusses his designs, including his much imitated signature rocker. It’s an opportunity to savor the nuances and substance that make Sam Maloof an inspiration to woodworkers everywhere. You’ll also see how to:

• Sculpt joints with a router and rasp
• Create laminated rockers
• Use decorative splines for strength

Through his books and magazine articles and in seminars across the country, Mark Duginske has helped thousands of bandsaw owners tweak their wayward machines into precision tune. Here he shows you how to cut cones, tenons, precise dovetails, resaw both 1/32 veneer and sturdy firewood boards, and to make boxes from 2" stock. A great range of tips and little known techniques from a master.

A master's insight into machine woodworking

Mark Duginske offers a master's insights into machine woodworking and some honest shortcuts that will help you in your own journey toward woodworking precision. You'll see how to do fast, elegant joinery with basic power tools (with no need for expensive gadgets) and how to achieve zero-frustration, complete-control woodworking with machines.

You will learn about:

• "reading" lumber to avoid stock-preparation problems
• fine-tuning the table saw, bandsaw, drill press and radial-arm saw
• sawing beautifully fitting dovetails on the table saw
• making mortise-and-tenon joints on the drill press
• band sawing book matched panels
• making an ingenious 50-cent device that ensures accuracy to within 0.002 in.

Frank Klausz cuts quick, precise dovetails without jigs or templates, then glues up and fits the finished drawer.

You will learn about:

• Dovetail drawer anatomy
• Transferring dimensions from the scale drawing to a full-scale '' story-pole''
• Choosing lumber
• Marking out, ripping and crosscutting drawer parts
• Marking out the dovetails and pins
• Hand sawing the pins and tails and chopping out the waste
• Gluing up
• Applying finishing touches with a smooth plane
  

A professional cabinetmaker for more than 25 years, Frank Klausz operates a cabinet shop specializing in antique reproductions and restorations and in custom architectural fixtures. He also has made the other Fine Woodworking video workshops Making Mortise-and-Tenon Joints and Wood Finishing.

From stock selection to final detailing

You'll watch the entire process of making a traditional leg-and-apron table, from stock selection to finish preparation. Through the processes used in the video you'll learn techniques for any furniture project you want to tackle.

For example, you will learn about:

• selecting and milling wood
• laying out, jointing and gluing tops
• milling and tapering legs
• mortising and tenoning
• fitting joints
• gluing up a table base
• sizing and smoothing a top
• edge treatments
• final detailing
• Much more!

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Video length is 76 minutes

Using this cornerstone machine to its full advantage

If you make furniture, the table saw is one of the cornerstone machines in your shop. Kelly Mehler, who makes some of the most beautiful furniture in America, shows you how to get the best out of this essential tool. In this video, you'll learn the differences between table saws. You'll discover how to choose the right one for your working style, set it up right the first time and adjust it so that it runs safely and efficiently

Mehler demonstrates basic table-saw techniques, including crosscutting and ripping, and how to handle special situations such as oversized and undersized stock. He also shows you how to make woodworking joints with the table saw and how to build jigs and fixtures that will make your work on the table saw easier and more accurate.

Facework, Centerwork, and Working End Grain

There's no end to the splendid variety of useful objects you can turn once you see Richard Raffan at his lathe.

In this tape, you'll learn to select the wood species best suited for a wide variety of turning projects. Raffan shows you how to manipulate skews, gouges and parting tools to produce the whole repertoire of wood-turning cuts, and how to recognize the structural aspects of a project as it develops on the lathe. Raffan also shows you how to sand and apply finishes and waxes, and he offers important safety tips throughout the tape.

Among the projects Raffan shows you how to turn are hollow vessels, bottle coasters, spatulas, mallets, small bowls, and beads.

Expert box-turning techniques

Internationally acclaimed woodturner Richard Raffan demonstrates how to make turned boxes with suction-fit lids in this 55-minute video.

Raffan reveals the tricks you need to know when turning boxes and shows you step-by-step how to make three challenging types. You'll learn how to:

• make a perfect suction-fit lid
• manipulate skew chisels and parting tools
• turn decorative top knots and finials
• back-hollow and chuck
• fix cracks and splits
• recover from mistakes
• sand and apply a wax finish

Learn woodturning by looking over the shoulder of a master turner, Richard Raffan, as he demonstrates the moves that are so important to skillful woodturning as he leads you through six useful projects. You'll learn techniques of sharpening, stance and movement, gouge exercises, skew exercises, centerwork and facework techniques. Includes projects: tool handle; light-pull knob; scoop; box; breadboard; bowl. 114 minutes.

An Introduction to Turning Beautiful Bowls and Plates

Del Stubbs shows you how to turn beautiful bowls and plates. You can start with dry lumber or with green wood you cut yourself. The camera zooms in close to see the careful contact of edge on wood and then moves back so you can study various tool positions, grips and stances.
You will learn about:

• cutting tool types and modification of standard tools
• grinding and honing chisels
• gripping various turning tools
• mounting bowl blanks and roughing out the shape
• modifying a standard lathe
• controlling warp in the thin wall of a bowl
• cutting into endgrain
• designing bowl forms

From choosing stock to cutting joints

Routers can be used to cut a wide variety of joints quickly and accurately. In this video, professional woodworker Gary Rogowski demonstrates router joinery techniques that can be mastered by any woodworker. You'll learn why correct setup and good stock preparation are essential to accurate work, and you'll see how to cut common frame and carcase joints using a hand-held or table-mounted router.

You'll see how to rout:

• rabbets, dadoes and grooves
• half-laps
• mortise-and-tenon joints
• loose-tenon joints
• half-blind and through dovetails
• sliding dovetails

Make and join the frame, then raise the panel Frame-and-panel construction is a fundamental strategy in woodwork, because it can accommodate wood’s inevitable seasonal expansion and shrinkage.

In this DVD, Graham Blackburn tackles the basic frame. He explains the functions and design opportunities of stiles, rails, and muntins and shows you how to combine them into a frame. He also shows you how to think out the proportions of the frame parts and their relation to the panel they contain.

Surface prep, wipe-on and spray finishing, and a visit with a finishing expert

In this DVD, finishing expert Michael Dresdner shows you what you need to know to become a proficient wood finisher, starting with classic surface-prep problems and their solutions -- how to recognize and remove dents, how to recognize and fill gouges, how to pre-raise wood grain to get the best results under waterborne finishes, and, most important, how to sand wood.

You'll learn how to apply a simple wax finish, shellac-and-wax, and a polyurethane with only a rag for a tool. It's a simple process: rag on your finish, wipe it off, let it dry, recoat. You’ve got to see this to learn how little you have to do to get a classy, silky, surface that’s ideal for most indoor furniture.

Get the most out of your router

Woodworkers of every skill level will find something useful in this DVE about the most versatile power tool in the shop. For router expert Pat Warner, the basic idea is to use the router as a "finishing" tool: do all your rough-cutting and hogging with other power tools, then remove the last 1/32 in. of wood with the router, in a clean, surgical stroke.

Warner shows you how to rout clean circles and holes; how to make half-lap joints at the ends of boards, and laps in the middle of boards that cross each other at any angle you choose. There's a section on the anatomy of a fixed-base router, another on the use of the collar guide for precise template work, and a lesson on getting two different shapes from the same decorative-profile bit.

The Pocket Hole Solution to Cabinetmaking

Accelerate your learning process with this pocket hole instructional video. The Pocket Hole Solutionî series features TV personality John Sillaots as he leads you through the various steps needed to build your own custom cabinets. Pocket hole joinery provides a fast, strong and simple approach to tackling your next woodworking project.

The Pocket Hole Solution to Tables

Accelerate your learning process with this pocket hole instructional video. The Pocket Hole Solutionî series features TV personality John Sillaots as he leads you through the various steps needed to build strong, strdy tables in a matter of hours.. Pocket hole joinery provides a fast, strong and simple approach to tackling your next woodworking project.

The Pocket Hole Solution to Trim Carpentry

In this two hour DVD, watch as Gary Striegler use the speed, strength, and simplicity of Pocket Hole Joiner to create a varirty of eye-catching trim details for the home.

The Pocket Hole Solution to
Router Tables

No workshop is complete without a sturdy router table to complete all of your shaping operations. Why not build one that will last a lifetime with plywood and the simplicity of pocket hole joinery.

Fine doors are the most important visual elements of your cabinets and furniture. Arched panel doors are the perfect way to make your work truly unique and distinctive, and this video from Marc Sommerfeld shares all the secrets of the master doormaker. Learn Marc Sommerfeld's time-tested system for constructing beautiful arched raised panel doors. Marc's Years of experience as a woodworking instructor and demonstrator enable him to give you step-by-step instructions and lots of helpful hints and tips, with clarity that makes you feel that you are right in his shop.

(38 min.)

Learn the master's secrets for building the finest Glass Panel and Divided Light Doors, as Marc Sommerfeld shows you how to get the most out of your Sommerfeld Glass Panel Set. If you are interested in building any kind of glass panel door - rectangular, arched, divided light, you name it - then there's no better set of tools than the Sommerfeld Glass Panel Set. And to make that set really work for you, there's no better reference than this DVD from Marc Sommerfeld. With skill honed through decades of experience as a woodworking educator and demonstrator, Marc teaches you his techniques in clear, easy to follow steps.

(30 min.)

Build your own customized router table. Marc's video includes all of his latest tips, techniques and router table secrets. If you're one of the thousands of woodworkers who have seen Marc Sommerfeld's live demonstrations, you know that he's the master of the router table. If you're one the thousands more who own one of the tables Marc has designed, you know his knack for creative solutions to every woodworking challenge. Now you can see all of his latest ideas in one informative, entertaining video. Study Marc's techniques at your convenience, then enjoy the ever-expanding world of woodworking on the router table.

(120 min.)

Beautiful cabinetry doesn't have to be difficult, in fact, it's easy with Marc Sommerfelds's new Tongue & Groove Cabinetry System and the help of this video. From face frame to hardware installation, Marc covers it all! Marc's Tongue & Groove Cabinetmaking System combines the best of Old World joinery with the advantages of New World tooling. The result is a system that will make every joint - and every project - faster, stronger and more accurate. This exciting video shows how this system will work for you - whether you are an occasional woodworker or a seasoned pro.

(105 min)

Arched raise panels aren't just for kitchen cabinets anymore, thanks to Marc's Mini Raised Panel techniques. With this system you can add beautiful details to boxes, clocks, humidors and small projects of every type. With, style, clarity and techniques that are unique in the woodworking industry, Marc instructs you in his system of constructing mini arched raised panels with his Junior Set. Since small parts require special precautions, Marc also teaches you how to utilize push blocks and holding blocks to ensure safety when working with smaller pieces of wood.

(30 min.)

In this fast-paced, half hour DVD, Marc will lead you set-by-step through building three different types of Shaker-style raised panel doors. You'll be amazes by how simple it really is, as you pick up loads of great tips and tricks-of-the trade along the way from Marc Sommerfeld, one of America"s leading authorities on cabinetmaking.

(30 min.)

In this information-packed, 42 minute DVD, Marc will lead you step-by-step through a surprisingly simple approach to building beautiful mitered raised panel doors from custom 3" wide molding that you create in your own shop useing your router table. You will be amazed by how easy it really is, as you pick up loads of great tips and tricks-of-the trade along the way from Marc Sommerfeld, one of America"s leading authorities on cabinetmaking.

(42 min.)

Get perfect hand-applied finishes, with technique advice from a pro finisher.

Simple tools and the correct techniques are all it takes to produce flawless finishes by hand. This DVD combines two videos: Hand–Applied Finishes: Coloring Wood and Hand–Applied Finishes: Applying Topcoats to offer a complete video guide to these time-tested techniques. You'll learn about:

• Preparing surfaces
• Using pore fillers
• Mixing stains
• Brushing on varnish
• Using pad laquer and shellac
• Applying French polish
• Rubbing out a finish

Using skills learned from over 30 years as a professional cabinet maker, Frank Klausz brings you shop-proven advice and instruction to help you turn out handsome bookcases and cabinets using biscuit joinery. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work–the tools, the techniques, and timesaving tricks that can help you work efficiently. Frank takes you step-by-step from start to finish, demonstrating each process in detail.

This collection of all 5 Cabinetmaking DVD's from Marc Sommerfeld is a must for any serious cabinetmaker. Marc teaches the basics and advanced methods of cabinetmaking sep-by-step through his "Made Easy" concept.

Over 5 hours of quality instruction.

This Collection includes:

• Cabinetmaking Made Easy (105 min.)
• Glass Panel Doors Made Easy (30 min.)
• Mini Raised Panels Made Easy (30 min.)
• Arched Raised Panels Made Easy (38 min.)
• Router Tables Made Easy (120 min.

Box making is perfect for beginning woodworkers interested in gaining skills, experimenting with design, and feeling satisfaction at a project that can be completed without the time and expense commitment of a bigger project. This DVD will offer basic designs, as well as many variations to teach different woodworking techniques while the audience learns to create a practical item or a gift that will become an heirloom. While this DVD will be enjoyed by beginners, it will also be great for any woodworker interested in small projects that can be done in a weekend with wood leftover from another project.

A solid foundation in traditional methods

Now you can acquire the satisfying skill of carving wood. In this tape you'll discover the basics of woodcarving, see how to carve an 18th-century scallop shell and gain an understanding of the production techniques of that era.

You will learn about:

• designing for letter carving
• selecting and sharpening carving tools
• carving roman and italic letters
• relief carving
• outlining
• molding (bordering)
• backgrounding
• modeling and contouring
• defining the wings
• carving the convex and concave rays
• finishing the shell

Get the most out of the versatile router

Discover dozens of ways that the router can be used to increase your productivity -- and creativity -- in the shop. In this video, you'll learn basic router joinery and how to rout the subtle shapes necessary to create a handsome hand mirror (plans for the hand mirror are in the accompanying booklet).

You will learn about:

• making spline edge joints in boards with the router
• routing mortises and tenons that fit
• routing sliding dovetail mortises and tenons
• a variety of jigs for the router
• cutting to a pattern, tapers, roundovers, under-cuts, decorative covers and routed cavities

A master woodworker covers the essential techniques.

Nothing completes a woodworking project like a beautiful, durable finish. In this tape, expert cabinetmaker Frank Klausz shows you how to choose the right finish and how to apply it.

You will learn about:

• preparing the surface
• sharpening a scraper
• sanding
• stripping
• applying a tung-oil finish
• completing the finish
• oiling intricate pieces
• staining
• spray lacquering
• varnishing
• French polishing

Learn how four basic planes can change the way you do woodworking

If you are like many woodworkers, you own handplanes but never learned how to use them to their best advantage. In this video, teacher and plane expert Mario Rodriguez shows the basics of using planes and how four basic planes -- the jointer, the smooth plane, the shoulder plane, and the block plane -- can change the way you do woodworking.

In this video you'll learn how to:

• tune and sharpen a plane
• correct stance and planing technique
• joint an edge
• adjust drawers for a perfect fit
• trim tenons and other joints
• surface stock with planes

Tuning and Using Chisels, Planes and Saws

Tuning chisels, planes and saws and learning how to use them properly can make your woodworking a hands-on pleasure. These tools can bring a refinement to your work that machines alone cannot produce. In this DVD you’ll learn how to:

• Sharpen a chisel within minutes
• Rehabilitate flea market tools
• Flatten the bottom of a plane
• Set and sharpen a handsaw
• Stand and hold a plane
• Pare accurately with a chisel
• Saw straight and smoothly

Frank Klausz apprenticed and trained in Europe and has been a professional cabinetmaker for over three decades. He operates Frank’s Cabinet Shop in Pluckemin, New Jersey, writes about woodworking and teaches classes and workshops.

Decorate furniture, cabinets, boxes, and more

Chip carving is a wonderfully direct and simple way to decorate furniture, cabinets, boxes, plaques and utensils. Wayne Barton, a master of the Swiss style of chip carving, shows you step by step how you can beautify a number of objects using very few tools.

You'll learn about:

• tools and the basic border cuts
• decorative designs like gothic rosettes and lace borders
• roman lettering
• creating script monograms

Produce clean and quick joints, by hand or machine

Woodworkers rely on the versatile mortise-and-tenon joint for making sturdy frames, panels, stools, tables and stands. Frank Klausz shows you how to make the joint cleanly and quickly, using hand tools or basic woodshop machines.

You will learn about:

• laying out for handwork
• chiseling the mortises
• sawing the tenons
• laying out for router and handsaw
• routing the mortises
• bandsawing the tenons
• laying out for mortiser and table saw
• making a hollow-chisel mortiser
• working tenons on the table saw