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After three more hours of CAD work last night, I finished up the preliminary drawings for the next cover project for Woodworking Magazine. We’re calling this project “An American Wall [...]

So today I get a copy of the WoodWorker’s Book Club bulletin and it lists the “Top 50 Member Favorites.” I eagerly flipped through to see if my book on workbenches made the [...]

Design a Bookcase ChallengeThe LumberJocks and Popular Woodworking partnership to design, build and publish a winning bookcase has come to a close, and a winning entry has been selected. I must [...]

When a young Thomas Lie-Nielsen set out to start making premium handplanes in the early 1980s, he launched his business with an adaptation of the Stanley No. 95 edge-trimming plane. But [...]

This fall, our magazine is sponsoring the first-ever weekend conference devoted to hand tools and learning to use them. We’re calling it the Woodworking in America conference, and [...]

This fall, our magazine is sponsoring the first-ever weekend conference devoted to hand tools and learning to use them. We’re calling it the Woodworking in America conference, and [...]

In our June issue, our I Can Do That feature is a mitered CD/DVD rack. Our goal for these columns is to show that attractive, well made projects can be made with a minimal amount of tools and [...]

For me, finger joints have always been the nerdy, square cousin to the dovetail. Finger joints are immensely strong when glued properly. But they are usually used by beginning woodworkers in [...]

When the topic is finishing, Popular Woodworking magazine turns to Bob Flexner for answers. We believe he is the foremost expert when it comes to anything from alkyd-based varnish to using Xylene [...]

Managing Editor Megan Fitzpatrick grabbed our magazine’s digital camera and told Marc “The Wood Whisperer” Spagnuolo to hold still for a photograph. “I need to take a [...]

About a decade ago, my boss Steve Shanesy told me something about design that knocked me flat. When he was a struggling custom furniture maker, he took some time off to do something that few [...]

While surfing around the woodworking sites, I found mention of this jig for cutting mortises. It’s a Mortise Pal (mortisepal.com). If you have a plunge router (weighing less than 12 [...]