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Gene Adcock, who we featured in our February 2020 Show Us Your Shop column, has been spending time with his daughter and grandchildren in CA and made his condo garage into a convertible workshop space.

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Inside This Issue

Show Us Your Workshop
Women in Woodworking
An Afternoon with Roubo
Book Review: The Anarchist's Workbench
Finishing: Lacquer Retarder
Stories from Grandpa's Workshop
Turning a Bundle of Spindles
Show Us Your Woodcarving

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Show Us Your Woodcarving

Edward Mercer has a passion for snakes and transferred his love of them to the creative outlet of woodcarving.

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Roubo Hand Planes

An Afternoon with Roubo
By Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller recently stumbled upon Andre-Jacob Roubo's descriptions of various molding planes in L' Art Du Menuisier, which inspired him to make his own set of Roubo hollows and rounds, which he discusses how he made in this article.

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Stories from
Grandpa's Workshop:
A New Year's Resolute-tion
By Bob Rummer

This month, Bob Rummer discusses the history of the wood that was used to build the Resolute Desk in The White House. He translates this to his own projects and how some of the wood he uses to make them often has a past history of its own.

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Women in Woodworking:
Meet Sarah Lynn
By Char Miller-King

This month's Women in Woodworking column features Sarah Lynn, the self-proclaimed "when I have time for it" woodworker who brings the outdoors into her craft by creating beautiful mountain art.

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Turning Spindles

Turning a Bundle
of Spindles
By Temple Blackwood

Temple was recently asked to turn 54 matching balusters for a furniture-maker friend who was building a staircase. He is often asked if turning multiples gets "boring"? Find out Temple's opinion in this month's Turning the Corner.

Click here to read more 		The Anarchist's Workbench'

Book Review:
The Anarchist's Workbench
By Christopher Schwarz
Review by J. Norman Reid

The Anarchist's Workbench, the third of Christopher Schwarz's series, is the most complete treatment of workbench experience available. At its base, it's a thorough personal review of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the author's experience in building workbenches.

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Finishing: Lacquer Retarder
By Alan Noel

This month, Alan has a tip on the benefits of adding lacquer retarder to your finishes, especially when you are dealing with the changing of the seasons in your workshop.

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