Winter Cleanup — Woodworker's Journal Weekly 821

In this issue, Chris Marshall engages in a yard clean-up effort, we look at a salad bowl finish and a tool coating and plans for a media center and a highboy cabinet.

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Woodworking, Sort Of… Last Sunday, I embarked on one of my annual "maintenance" rituals. Around the beginning of January, when I'm looking for excuses to get productive again, I start sizing up the condition of the trees in our yard. They're dormant, of course, and I'm not entrenched in all the yardwork tasks that spring and summer will bring. By February, I've got my gameplan in mind, and it's time for tree trimming! I say that with the sort of blissful amnesia that comes from not having done it for a year. Because I forget how much work is involved with trimming trees. There's the pole-sawing, chain-sawing, ladder-climbing and the dragging away of limbs just felled. Once the tree is looking good again, the job is ....

CLAPHAM'S BEESWAX SALAD BOWL FINISH Clapham's Beeswax Finish is as simple a recipe as a wood finish can ever be! POWERMATIC'S ARMORGLIDE TABLE COATING Dan Cary takes a look at the Powermatic ArmorGlide power tools and compares how they improve on the classic design.

NAKASHIMA-INSPIRED CONSOLE Inspired by Nakashima's earlier Mid-Century designs, our author reinterprets those themes for today with this modestly-sized media center. QUEEN ANNE HIGHBOY PART TWO Last week, we tackled the base of this classic project. In Part 2, our author builds the upper case and all of the dovetailed drawers.

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