Popular Woodworking Magazine February 2012 (Digital Download)

Our cover story for the February 2012 issue is Serpentine Chest, by Glen D. Huey, contributing editor. Expand your casework repertoire by learning how to make a curvaceous front - it looks a lot trickier than it really is.

In Handle With Care, Gary Rogowski shows how to design, make and install custom handles for your doors and drawers – pulls perfectly suited to your project.

In A Frame With Architectural Interest, Mark Arnold shows how "crossetted" corners add a bold visual statement – and arresting grain pattern – to a picture or mirror frame.

Charles Bender demonstrates how an exercise in dowel-making without a lathe is an excellent way to improve your handplaning techniques in Just Plane Round.

In Mirrors in Multiples, Robert W. Lang, executive editor, shows how designing the process for making more than one of a project can be as challenging as designing the object itself.

In Return of the Passer Drill, Roy Underhill revives this vererable tool, which was used in times past to pattern rout for brass insets, with a modern replica.

In this issue's Tool Test, we take a look at Festool ZOBO Forstner-style bits, Veritas's 6" precision square, Blockkz's Clamping Blocks, and Earlex's steam generator.

In Design Matters, George R. Walker shows how sketching is all in your mind.

In Arts & Mysteries, Adam Cherubini shows how London's clever carpenters found a way around the laws regarding "boarded" furniture.

This issue's I Can Do That project is a message center designed and built by Steve Shanesy, senior editor.

In Great Woodshops, Christopher Schwarz, contributng editor, shows how Jeff Miller, a former musician brings an improvisational skill to the craft of custom woodworking.

In Flexner on Finishing, Bob Flexner shows how "green" solvents are environmentally friendly and surprisingly effective.

And in End Grain, Eric Heydorn paddles through his woodworking past.

Plus On the Level, Letters and Tricks of the Trade.