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When you’re a professional writer, people tend to give you cranky manual typewriters as gifts. They don’t expect you to use them, per se. But they do expect you to display them in [...]

Before I hung out a shingle to become part of the world of reproduction furniture making, a large portion of my work was producing bookcases and built-in units for new home construction. As you [...]

Construction on the bed wrapped up on Sunday. There was little time in the shop on Saturday, but luckily the wife, my inpatient customer, was busy all day Sunday and I had the entire day to make [...]

Drawings can only get you so far when you're designing a piece. Sometimes, when I'm stuck, I leave the drawing board and make full-size parts. Here's a sample joint I made before [...]

WOOD PIE SAFEEd KoenigCherry, walnut, osage orange, purpleheart, Brazilian satinwood, bloodwood, mahogany, lacewood, sassafras, basswood, zebrawood, boiled linseed oil, turpentine and beeswax. [...]

In July, Popular Woodworking Books will publish “Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Furniture.” If you’re not familiar with the location (host site for the annual Arts & [...]

Someday, someone is going to invent a battery-powered scratch awl. I know this is true because I have seen toolmakers go to ridiculous extremes to sell us something new. A laser on a jigsaw. A [...]

Like most woodworkers, I’ve been to my fair share of woodworking shows. I’ve bought the $5 router bits that fell off a truck. I’ve been wowed by the Sham Wow. I’ve eaten [...]

      I just finished the "Nordic-Style Bentwood Box' that was featured in your Dec-Feb 2009 magazine. I am 64 years old, and It was the best project I have ever [...]

DOGWOOD HUTCH*** PowellCorvallis, OR  Pacific dogwood (Cornus nutallii); locally harvested and air dried, beveled glass, shellac and wipe-on poly.  “The dogwood boards were [...]

MUSIC BENCHCurtiss C. Bohall11 7/8" T x 15"D x 22"LCherry, brass“My wife needed a bench for her new keyboard.  It had to have wheels with a top that was easily removed. [...]

A fellow at the Philadelphia Furniture Workshop Open House video taped my demo and posted it to YouTube.com. It’s here I thought it was nice of him to ask permission to tape me and ask [...]