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“I will not give away my hard-earned skills to a machine. It’s a bit like robbery with violence, for (machines are) not only intended to diminish my bank balance, but also to steal my [...]

I’ve been involved in hundreds of professional photography shoots in my journalism career, and each one is ridiculous in its own way. Yesterday we shot the image for my forthcoming book, [...]

If you’re thinking about purchasing a premium portable table saw, you might want to wait a couple months. We just got advance information about a new line of portable table saws from Bosch [...]

My trip to Leigh Industries, located just outside Vancouver, BC, was to get an up-close look at their new products. I took a cursory look at those in the story “Leigh Dovetail Jigs: New [...]

From June 2006 Popular Woodworking Wenzloff & Sons Backsaws Make the Cut The hand-tool crowd lives and dies by the hand saw. But even for the rest of us, no matter how many electrons we [...]

From June 2006 Popular Woodworking Grizzly’s Baby Drum Sander Rocks Early in my career I was spoiled forever by a 42″-wide, three-head wide-belt sander. I can’t keep from [...]

From June 2006 Popular Woodworking Dead-on accuracy from a drill press table isn’t necessary for woodworkers. But it sure is nice to be able to hold your work securely, and have a fence [...]

From June 2006 Popular Woodworking A Bright Addition to the Category This is the first true router to bear the Ridgid name. A trim router was introduced about one year ago, but this is the one [...]

The Antique Barn Finish in our current issue (June 2007) had to have caught your eye if you’re jazzed by the antique-painted furniture look. I know I’m ready to give this technique a [...]

In any business timing is everything. We see this firsthand in our June 2007 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine. The article that reinforces this well-known business adage is the [...]

Why joints fail and why woodworkers fail as scientists Whenever my late Uncle Archie came to visit, he would drive my mother crazy with where he chose to sit. He was a big man, weighing over 350 [...]