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Each woodworking technique from the categories below includes detailed instructions, easy-to-read illustrations, color drawings, photographs, and all the information needed to make you a better woodworker. Each technique has been shop-tested by the editors of WOOD magazine.

12 Ways to Get the Best From Your Biscuit Joiner
The Art of Framing
4 Straightforward Ways to Make Super-Strong Mortise and Tenon Joints
Cut Dead-On Miters Every Time
Miters with Muscle
Outdoor Adhesives
A Simply System for Classic Casework
No-Fail Routines for Jointing and Planing
Dovetail Showdown
Simple Frame-and-Panel Doors in 30 minutes
Mitered Half Laps
Box-Joint Jig Woodworking Plan
Wood Joint Torture Test 2
Wood Joint Torture Test 1
Make and Mount Super Simple Drawers
Don’t Swear, Get Square
How to Steam-Bend Wood & Accompanying Plant Stand Project
How to Get Started in Biscuit Joinery
Raised-Panel Doors Made Easy
Turn the Corner to Perfect Miters
Bent Lamination
Mortise & Tenon Joints Technique and Tenoning Jig Plan
Crown Molding
Decorative Joint Reinforcements
Outstanding Banding
Pocket-Hole Joinery
Crown Molding Boxes
Hand-Cut Dovetails
Picture Frames, Anyone?
Conquering Crown Molding
Cutting Tenons to a T
How to master dadoes, grooves, and rabbets
Cut sliding dovetail for durable drawers
Butterfly spline joints and a jig to cut them Woodworking Plan
Finger Joints with Flair
Hand-Cut Dovetails
The Split-Mortise, Through-Tenon Joint
The Handcut Dovetail Lap Joint
Two safe and simple ways to make raised panels with your tablesaw or table-mounted router
Build flawlessly flat panels
Add strength and style to miter joints
Create super-strong bridle joints
Gear up for glue-ups
The plane truth about better joinery
Woodworker’s guide to airtight joinery
Master the mortise-and-tenon joint
Epoxy goes mainstream
Choosing and using knockdown hardware
Tight-fit wraparound moldings
Quick-and-easy mitered half laps
Save time with pocket holes
Haunched tenons
Half-lap help for small parts
The never-fail sliding dovetail
Attainable Accuracy
Three-Way Miter Joints
2 Easy Miter-free Frame Joints

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