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ISSUE 194 NOVEMBER 2009

Better Homes and Gardens ®

The World’s Leading Woodworking Resource

Blanket Chest p.30

Projects for

● Mantel Clock p.54

● Toy Excavator p.62

● Bud Vase p.28

How a Jointer

$ave You Money

Build a Rock-solid

Workbench from

2-bys and Plywood

Display until November 24, 2009

Build This Classic Dovetailed

Gift Giving

and Planer

in this issue

PROJECTS

18 Shop Project: Clamp Rack

28 Made-from-scrap Bud Vase

30 On the Cover: Blanket Chest

42 Super-tough Plywood Workbench

54 Surprisingly Simple Mantel Clock

62 Toy Excavator

SKILL BUILDERS

22 Fixing an Out-of-square Drawer

38 Work Wide Stock on Your Dovetail Jig

Take off the template and go beyond the limits of your

bench-mounted jig.

40 How a Jointer and Planer Save You $$$

These two tools pay for themselves in short order.

50 14 Secrets for Setting Up Router Bits

66 Make and Install Baseboard and Chair Rails

TOOLS & MATERIALS

16 Aromatic Cedar: Mothbuster or Not?

20 Wise Buys: Forstner Bit Sets

24 5 Tools for Fine-fitting Joints

58 Tool Test: Tablesaw Blades Under $50

72 Shop-Proven Products

DEPARTMENTS

6 Sounding Board

8 Shop Tips

78 Ask WOOD

92 What’s Ahead

Part 2 of our series on custom-trimming your home.

Ridgid hybrid tablesaw, Laguna lathe, and more.

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November 2009

vol. 26, No. 6

Issue No. 194

EDITOR-IN-ChIEF

BILL KRIER

Managing Editor

MARLEN KEMMET

Deputy Editor

dAvE CAMPBELL

Art Director

KARL EHLERS

Senior Design Editor

KEvIN BOYLE

Techniques Editor

BOB WILSON

Tool & Techniques Editor

BOB HUNTER

Marlen and his daughter, Chelsy,

made this dresser and finished it

with thinned black enamel.

Multimedia Editor

LUCAS PETERS

Multimedia Editor

CRAIG RUEGSEGGER

Design Editor

JEFF MERTZ

Associate Art Director

GREG SELLERS

Production/Office Manager

MARGARET CLOSNER

Administrative Assistant

SHERYL MUNYON

Craig designed and built

this T V cabinet for his

family room using cherry

and stained poplar.

Photographers

JASON dONNELLY, SCOTT LITTLE, JAY WILdE

Contributing Illustrators TIM CAHILL, LORNA JOHNSON, ROXANNE LeMOINE

Technical Consultants BOB BAKER, dOUG HICKS

Contributing Craftsman JIM HEAvEY

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