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          I discovered the hard way that sanding on a lathe can be hard on the fingers. Now, to protect my fingers, I cut the fingertips off a latex-dipped work glove and [...]

THIS IS MADE FROM A PINE PALLET. THE DOWELS WERE MADE WITH A ROUTER ATTACHED TO MY LATHE..HAD TO MAKE A JIG UP TO FIX TO THE LATHE BEFORE I COULD ATTACH ROUTER TO IT TO MAKE THE DOWEL RODS. …

“Unplugged,” has its roots in the music industry, but woodworkers are quickly making the term their own. And one of the more vocal supporters of unplugged woodworking is Popular [...]

Pick up most any woodworking magazine from the past and you can’t help but see advertisements for furniture kits. I know you’ve seen them, the reproductions from The Bartley [...]

Several readers have encouraged me to take a look at the OXO 16″ folding ruler, which is an inexpensive aluminum recreation of the classic 19th-century folding ruler. I picked one up at [...]

NOW AND AGAIN I GET THE ODD FEW CD DISCS THAT ARE THROWN IN THE RECYCLE BINS ,I HAVE ABOUT 160 SO FAR. SEE WHAT I MADE FROM THEM NEXT TIME. THERE ARE UNLIMITED IDEAS YOU CAN DO WITH A …

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS OHIO,31-WHIT,6-1 I’ll never forget the time my sister and I used a free 10-hour AOL CD to dial into the Internet. Even though I [...]

A small box arrives at my desk , it’s no more than a 5″ cube. Inside the box is a new product from Demo Air Net (shown above in its packaging). A former jet mechanic turned [...]

I’ve always felt a bit guilty about our collection of SketchUp models on Google’s 3D Warehouse. It is such a great resource for our readers (and us) that it doesn’t seem [...]

Still in the midst of stripping my stairs, I’m trying not to use any smelly, highly dangerous chemicals , nothing that requires a mask or moving the cats out for the duration (good thing, [...]

We’re hard at work this month planning the 2010 Woodworking in America conference, which is scheduled for Oct. 1-3 in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. Because this conference will be in our [...]

This thing is a work of art, and if you have an extra $375 it can be yours. Sadly, I have already sold my share of plasma this month or I’d buy it myself. What’s really cool about the [...]