Show Hosts: David Marks
About Wood Works
Wood Works is an entertaining and informative guide to one of America's most popular hobbies - furniture making. Wood Works features master woodworker David Marks, who takes you step- by-step through the construction of uniquely beautiful woodworking projects. You'll get great tips on various woodworking techniques such as mortise & tenon joinery as well as how to cut fine wood veneers. The series is geared toward the intermediate to advanced woodworker. Wood Works sands out typical woodworking problems, so you can enjoy the smooth finish.
Watch Wood Works Saturday @ 10 & 10:30 am ET.
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Cocktail Table
The design for this modern cocktail table comes straight out of the contemporary studio furniture-movement.
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Host Tips
- Begin your project with sketches and develop a full scale drawing. From the drawing create a rough mockup and from the mockup develop a working prototype.
- Either bring “the wood to the tool” (run a board thru the planer) or if the wood is too big, bring “the tool to the wood.” To plane a large slab set a pair of router rails (two pieces of tube steel) on either side of the slab and attach a plywood base to the router long enough to span the rails .This will allow you to use the router as a planer or a milling machine.
- Give yourself permission to explore your own creativity. Schedule some time to be in the shop and play around with new ideas to see what might unfold.
- Take a woodworking class. Exposing yourself to new information can open doors that you may have never known existed.
Master woodworker David Marks, host of Wood Works, provides tips on woodworking techniques in columns distributed by Scripps Howard News Service. We've put together a list of them for you.
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