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Nothing says fashion quite like the Popular Woodworking logo , and now you can wear it emblazoned across your chest on one of our new T-shirts! Or, proudly hoist it aloft on our new cofee mug. [...]

Regarding benchtops, how flat is flat enough?  When I use winding sticks on my top, they line up, but it cups down its length by about 1/16″ at its center.  How anal should I be with this? [...]

Issue six of Woodworking Magazine is now available for sale on our website and is on its way to bookstores. (Just about every Barnes & Noble and Borders carries it, so those are good places [...]

I finished building a Roman-style handplane from a kit made by Ron Hock of Hock Tools. The kit is designed to be used to make a plane in the style popularized by James Krenov,�  but I converted [...]

The second Welsh stick chair I ever built was made using both traditional methods and traditional materials. That meant elm for the seat, white oak for the legs and the arm bow, and ash for the [...]

The first time I ever visited Frank Klausz (on the cover of our August 2006 issue) it was to shoot some photos for an article on dovetailing, for which is he is a well-known savant. The [...]

The online manual for our “I Can Do that Column” has been updated and is now ready for a free download. This manual, in pdf format, adds chapters on cutting egg crate joints and [...]

This week I’m building two wooden planes from a kit sold by Ron Hock of Hock Tools. The kit is designed to be used to make a wooden handplane muck like the ones popularized by James Krenov [...]

Thomas Lie-Nielsen has always been a man who will fight long odds. His mother recently told the story that as a baby, the doctor’s didn’t think Lie-Nielsen would survive infancy. And [...]

Woodworkers are always interested in seeing other woodworker’s projects, and they love showing off their own work. Some woodworkers go to the trouble of setting up their own web sites to [...]

Today we received our first glimpse of the printed version of the Autumn 2006 issue. We’ve switched to using a new printer that specializes in smaller magazines that have fussy and picky [...]

During the last two years, we’ve been experimenting with a magazine idea called Woodworking Magazine. So far, we’ve published five issues (a sixth is on the way). It’s quite [...]