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The cover on the August 2009 issue shows two walnut blanket chests stacked one on top of the other. I built the two chests at the same time, but to different dimensions. I kept notes on each and, [...]

“You pick the project that you like the best and we’ll build it.” “I like the Aalto lounge. Think we can do it?” To a woodworker who likes a challenge, anything is [...]

This is just a quick reminder that the pre-sale price of $27.99 for our new “Handplane Essentials” book ends Friday night. After Friday the price will be $34.99 and the book will not [...]

TIP FOR HEATING GLUE ,USE OLD IRON,HANDY FOR HEATING GLUE ON.ALSO HEAT IS VARIABLE ON AN IRON.…

One of the coolest woodworking things I’ve seen is where a guy named Mike Burton made some awesome scrapers for cleaning up crown moulding using , ready? , table spoons. A second cool [...]

At 1:12 p.m. on Tuesday I had nothing to do, so I hustled Managing Editor Megan Fitzpatrick into the shop to continue work on the workbench made from laminated veneer lumber (LVL). Of course, [...]

HERE IS A TIP IF YOU WANT TO MAKE LOOKALIKE EBONY STAIN .FIND AN OLD 78 RECORD OLDER THE BETTER AS THEY ARE MORE BRITTLE?BREAK RECORD INTO HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS,THEN GET A LARGE JAR WITH [...]

About eight years ago, when I was still a clean-shaven, short-haired senior editor, I took a trip to see the huge woodworking show at Woodstock, Ontario. There I saw some amazing things: 1. Rob [...]

      To proceed with the glue up of face frames to the cupboards I rather use sawhorses to have more room under the cupboards. I must say that my cheap plastic sawhorses are holding [...]

I grew up in a college town, and we used the term “regular guy” to describe people who didn’t let the initials after their names make them act superior or place them outside the [...]

The most significant woodworking tool that has been introduced in my lifetime doesn’t cut wood and it costs nothing. It is Google’s SketchUp program, a 3D computer-aided design [...]

Though Charleston is the most ethnically diverse and open Southern city I’ve ever visited, its taste in furniture has long been English. And because I am working on a book (which should be [...]