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Several readers wrote regarding the article “Best $20 I Ever Spent” in our August issue. The good news is that the Prybar/Scraper is also a common tool among beekeepers, used for [...]

If it weren’t for Joseph T. West, you’d probably have to read some other nattering editor’s weblog. West, my maternal grandfather, began his career at Western Electric by [...]

My new-to-me, old-to-the-world, or-whatever Rockwell 28-200 band saw is equipped with a sweet low-voltage magnetic switch. However, this afternoon as I attempted to get it running, I wish it were [...]

The band saw before the work began. About five years ago I owned a red Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. It had some rust problems (like most cars from the 1970s that lived through Pennsylvania winters), [...]

The traditional English sawbench looks a bit like an alligator with really long legs. This curious appearance has left some readers a bit curious themselves about some of the features of the [...]

Back in February, I had the chance of a lifetime to tune up and use an entire arsenal of exotic infill handplanes that came from the collection of John Edwards, a Michigan woodworker and tool [...]

If I didn’t work for a woodworking magazine, I’d probably consider a career in “tomb plundering” or perhaps “professional trespassing.” Ever since I was a boy, [...]

We wear a lot of hats here at Popular Woodworking, and fixing up the storefront got pushed to the back burner while I built a project for the November issue. We don’t want to go into detail [...]

ABOVE: A cherry board, fresh from the powered planer and after one pass with the jointer plane. Note how it took shavings from only part of the board. Question: I would call myself a novice with [...]

Have you walked into a furniture store lately? Let me rephrase that: Have you been able to walk into a furniture store lately? Until yesterday, it had been several years since I’d darkened [...]