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An engineer turns his understanding of metal and a love of woodworking into a busy tool-making enterprise.

These last couple weeks I’ve gotten to break in my new Benchcrafted wagon vise while building a dry sink for the next issue of Woodworking Magazine. The dry sink is enormous (it looked so [...]

On Halloween night in 1993 I went to the lumberyard in search of wood to build a sitting bench for our kitchen in Lexington, Ky. Like any good woodworker, I sorted through the entire pile of 1 x [...]

I really need to start keeping a list of all the things I use my sawbenches for. Sure, I saw stuff on them. And I stand on them while go-go dancing in the shop to amuse visitors. Those things are [...]

If case you haven’t been watching the calendar, we’re little more than a week away from Christmas. And if you’re working on projects that are the center of your holiday gift [...]

When I first got serious about woodworking after college, I remember reading a dire warning in a woodworking book about working with pine: “If you work with pine, be sure to purchase your [...]

In this clip from the class "Mortise and Tenon: Three Solid Methods" see inside the tricky mortise joint as you watch as Frank Klausz cut a mortise from behind glass. This clip was [...]

Cabinetry is made of chunks of wood that are fairly standard in size. Most of your parts are going to be shorter than 48″ long. It’s rare that individual planks will be wider than [...]

Meet planemaker Ron Brese, a diehard furniture builder who has started making infill handplanes using a unique construction method that lowers the lofty cost of these thoroughbred tools.

Lock Miters This simple set-up process guarantees perfect joints! By George Vondriska Lock miters are strong, attractive joints that make assembly easy. So why the heck don’t we use lock [...]

Woodworkers have a slightly different definition of normal than the rest of the world. Keeping special pieces of wood for a long, long time falls into that category. A little more than seventeen [...]

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks has just released a DVD that is based on the theories, research and building that I did for the book “Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & [...]