DVD's

Dovetail a Drawer
by Frank Klausz

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.

Build A Shaker Table
by Kelly Mehler

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!

Frame and Panel Construction
by Graham Blackburn

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 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.

Chairmaking Techniques
by Jeff miller

Now you can watch your own private demonstration on chairmaking with this valuable DVD from Jeff Miller. In clear, simple language, he shows you precisely how to create and put together framed chairs, post-and-ring chairs and chairs with plank seats.

By simplifying the complex and providing step-by-step techniques that are easy to follow, Miller's advice will have you ready to build extraordinary chairs in no time.

In this DVD, Jeff Miller demystifies the art of chairmaking. He shows how to build comfort, strength, and good looks into three different structural chair styles: framed chairs, post-and-rung chairs, and chairs with plank seats. You'll also learn how to:

• Lay out compound angles
• Cut complex joinery
• Strengthen chairs with corner blocks
• Construct curved backs
• Make comfortable seats
• Weave and upholster a seat

This classic Fine Woodworking DVD takes you right into an expert woodworker's shop. So you can see firsthand precisely how to do the work. And it gives you the flexibility to move at your own pace, reviewing any section as often as you like.

Making Rustic Furniture
by Paul Ruhlmann

Paul Ruhlmann makes all sorts of furniture, but especially beautiful chairs with refined Shaker lines and woven seats that have a bit of the frontier about them.

This video will teach you the entire process of making a rustic chair, including how to select the parts of your project from raw sticks and how to steam-bend posts when necessary; as well as making the joints, finishing and weaving.

Biscuit Joinery Building A Bookcase
by Frank Klausz

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.

Repairing Furniture
by Bob Flexner

Everything you need to repair furniture like a pro

With Repairing Furniture, it's easy to achieve professional results at home. You don't need extensive experience or an elaborate shop -- just the straightforward techniques Bob Flexner demonstrates for you, step-by-step. He shows you how to make repairs like the pros http://www.ptreeusa.com. and, better yet, how to recognize and avoid bad repairs.

You'll also learn how to:

• Safely disassemble furniture
• Repair and build out joints
• Make special clamping jigs
• Repair veneer Work with hide glue
• Repair broken parts

The next best thing to a private lesson. Repairing Furniture takes you right into expert woodworker Bob Flexner's shop for an unforgettable 85-minute lesson. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work -- the tools, the techniques, and the subtle rhythms of each process.

Impossible to miss a single step! Go directly to the chapter you want to watch and replay it as often as you want. Master it before you move on!

Measuring Furniture for Reproduction
by Phil Lowe

Now, this timeless topic can be yours on DVD! With Measuring Furniture for Reproduction, you can learn the simple steps to masterfully reproduce any piece. Expert woodworker Phil Lowe shows you how to take the measurements of an existing piece, create a set of plans, and then reproduce the piece in your workshop.

You'll also learn how to:

• Make freehand sketches
• Use story sticks to record dimensions
• Scribe profiles of curved parts
• Measure and analyze hidden joinery
• Make templates from your drawings
• Use templates to rough out parts

The next best thing to a private lesson. Measuring Furniture for Reproduction takes you right into expert woodworker Phil Lowe's shop for an unforgettable 55-minute lesson. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work -- the tools, the techniques, and the subtle rhythms of each process.

Impossible to miss a single step! Go directly to the chapter you want to watch and replay it as often as you want. Master it before you move on!

Hand Tools
by Frank Klausz

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.

Making Mortise-and-Tenon Joint
by Frank Klausz

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

Mastering Your Table Saw
by Kelly Mehler

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.

Bowl Turning
by Del Stubbs

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:

What it Covers:

• 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 end grain
• Designing bowl forms

Turning Boxes
by Richard Raffan

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

Turning for Furniture
by Ernie Conover

Turn your projects into beautifully designed furniture
Now, this timeless topic can be yours on DVD! With Turning for Furniture, you can turn your ordinary projects into one-of-a-kind designs. In this classic DVD, Ernie Conover shows you how to turn a beautiful assortment of furniture components -- including decorative chair legs and bed posts, knobs, pulls, and ornaments -- and increase your project options.

You'll also learn how to:

• Turn a simple chair stretcher
• Make custom knobs and pulls
• Turn chair legs
• Duplicate parts with ease
• Turn an offset foot

The next best thing to a private lesson. Turning for Furniture takes you right into expert woodworker Ernie Conover's shop for an unforgettable 55-minute lesson. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work -- the tools, the techniques, and the subtle rhythms of each process.

Impossible to miss a single step! Go directly to the chapter you want to watch and replay it as often as you want. Master it before you move on!

Small Shop Tips & Techniques
with Jim Cummins

Simple steps to making the most of a small shop

Now, this timeless topic can be yours on DVD! With Small Shop Tips & Techniques, you can make the most of your small shop. Expert woodworker Phil Lowe shows you how to expand your shop's capabilities just by improving your woodworking techniques. You'll discover new approaches and methods of bandsawing a box, making a marking gauge from scrap, and cutting precise angled joints.

You'll also learn how to:

• Get a bandsaw to work properly
• Expand the role of your drill press
• Tune up a chisel
• Sharpen twist drill bits
• Make machines and hand tools work together

The next best thing to a private lesson. Small Shop Tips & Techniques takes you right into expert woodworker Jim Cummins' shop for an unforgettable 60-minute lesson. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work -- the tools, the techniques, and the subtle rhythms of each process.

Impossible to miss a single step! Go directly to the chapter you want to watch and replay it as often as you want. Master it before you move on.

Router Joinery
by Gary Rogowski

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

The Versatile Router
with Pat Warner

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.

Router Jigs and Techniques
by Bernie Maas and Michael Fortune

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