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September 2014

Issue 227

In this issue
PLANS
14 Shop Project: Miter-sanding 11g
28 Basic-Built Grilling Center

Turn yClUf charcoal griller into an outdoor kitchen


with this easy-to-build enclosure.

34 Smoothing Plane
38 Heirloom Wortbench
50 Tapered Hall Bench

It's cootemporary-and comfortable-with


de<eptively simple joinery.

60 Stand-up Chessboard
66 Darling 0011 Chair

TECHNIQUES
6 Avoid Common Sharpening Mistakes
8 Tool School: Router Basics
32 (raft a Concrete Countertop

Use our woodworking tools to fashion a tough


topper for cabinets or the Gril1ifIQ (tIlter.

46 Great Finishes That Aren't Poly

Take a pass on the polyurethane with these


three less-finicky finishes.

64 Best Breakdown nps for Sheet Goods

TOOLS & MATERIALS


16 Buy the Right Bench Dogs
54 Shop Test: 15" Planers

Ready to dump your lunch-bo planer for a big


boy mO<k!I? Here's what you need to know first.

74 Wise Buys: Aluminum Bar (lamps


74 Shop-Proven Products

Precise pinners, dead-on doweling jig, and more

DEPARTMENTS
3 Editor's Angle
4 Sounding Board
12 Unvarnished

Harvesting urban lumbfr

18 Shop Tips

Tht WOOD"' m.galin diffren(e:


We build every proje<t, verify
l"Yl'ry fiKI, and lesl ewry
reviewed 1001 In our workshop
to guarantee your SU((I'SI .nd
<omple!e utisiot(:tion.

70 Ask WOOD
76 Advertiser Index
80 What's Ahead

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