Matt Gradwohl of Upper of Cut Woodworks presents a new video series designed to help woodworkers of all levels develop the skills necessary to design, build and finish furniture using power and hand tools. More information including pictures, links to other woodworking resources, furniture plans, tool lists, is available on The Upper Cut Woodworks Blog at uppercutwoodworks.com. And it's all free! ©2011 Upper Cut Woodworks, LLC
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents a video building a Bug Barn from a red-toolbox.com kit from Woodcraft Seattle. The kit is built with his almost five-year old daughter. This project build is part of Get Woodworking Week from tomsworkbench.com. The kit is easy to build, and perfect for kids!
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents a short video of a tree he uprighted after a storm.
Matt Gradwohl from Upper Cut Woodworks introduces you to his shop buddies. Both Hayden Ruth and Nina (aka Mr. Bananas) make a visit, proving that Upper Cut Woodworks also has a Shop Monkey.
Upper Cut Woodworks shows the final results of the Woodworker's Portable Spray Booth build. First a model is shown, then the final booth is highlighted including the large turntable, fan, and storage.
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks demonstrates clean, tight grain-wrapped miter joints on eight walnut boxes designed as trophy bases for the United States Fencing Association.
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks uses a Magswitch featherboard to square a table saw miter gauge to the blade for perfect crosscuts.
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks repairs a split at the end of a walnut board with tinted epoxy. Thanks to Marc Spagnuolo of woodwhisperer.com for this technique.
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents a high tolerance tune-up of a new jointer. If flattening handplanes to high tolerances is important to you and giving you great results, why not tune your power tools to high tolerances as well? Here's a short tour of my new jointer, tuned to within one thousandth of an inch.
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks presents Frank Klausz on Dovetail Design at Woodworking in America 2010. Frank discusses the history and design of dovetails, including their unique mechanical strength.
Matt Gradwohl of Upper Cut Woodworks shows you why you shouldn't throw away old table saw zero clearance inserts. Fix them and reuse them. The inserts you used for your blade long ago can now be used for dadoes.