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At high school reunions there’s always the guy you don’t recognize because he’s gained 200 pounds and is nursing a spectacular goiter. This workbench is like that. Eagle-eyed [...]

A nickel in summer, a dime in winter is a seat of the pants method for figuring gaps around drawers and doors. If you’d like something more precise, and you’d like to be able to make [...]

After five years of whining, someone listened to (or became merely weary of) my complaints about the search function on this blog. We now have a custom Google search bar at the bottom of every [...]

We spend three days with the world's most expensive planes. Are they just jewelry? Or do they work better than your plane?

When I worked at a liquor bottling plant one summer, the bosses found out I was in college and decided to put me in charge of the robots. I had to summon the robots from the warehouse, pick up an [...]

Umbrella Stand Build this simple, elegant stand and you’ll have it made in the shade come summer. By Dave Munkittrick Market umbrellas have a certain magical quality to them. Whether you’re [...]

If you want to spray finishes indoors, you need an exhaust system. This affordable homemade set-up makes it possible and affordable.

Sometimes the hardest part of working with wood is simply finding it. Here are the strategies we use to keep our wood racks full.

I can make my own beef jerky, but that doesn’t mean I want to apply veneer-making techniques to a hapless bovine. So when I found out that long-time woodworker Bill Rittner was making knobs [...]

The cutting list for the …?The Return of Roubo’ workbench in the August 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine has a small error in the cutting list. And I’d like to quickly [...]

At different points in our tour of the veneer mill, our guide would point out a certain element, or an individual who played a critical role in keeping the operation moving efficiently and [...]

On the last day of the Furniture Society 2010 conference at MIT, I met Randy Johnson for breakfast. This I think was the first time (I am almost sure about this) that I ate Eggs Benedict, and it [...]