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Senior Editor Glen D. Huey and I cut dovetails in completely different ways. But we entirely agree on one point: People make the joint a lot more difficult than necessary. There is a time for [...]

This happens every year. Woodworkers are allowed to stop weeding the garden beds and are cut loose in the shop. The result: My e-mail inbox and voice mail inbox are overflowing. If you have a [...]

The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, has just released the new edition of “Wood Handbook — Wood as an Engineered Material,” as part of [...]

Cutting joinery by hand isn’t a romantic journey to the charms of bygone days. For me, it’s a way to obtain better results in less time. I got tired of fiddling with table saw setups [...]

THESE CABLE TIES ARE HANDY IF YOUR CLAMPING EDGES.CHEAP TO BUY! AND MORE VERSITILE THAN A ORDINARY CLAMP.CLAMP PICTURE FRAMES /BOXES ECT. THESE COME IN LENGHTS UP TO 4 FT. AND UP TO 3/4 INCH [...]

In a perfect world, styling and presentation wouldn’t be important. Or, at least, they would be less important than substance. I’ve been thinking about this since Saturday, courtesy [...]

While teaching at Roy Underhill’s school in Pittsboro, N.C., I spied this folding bookstand in the front of the school’s storefront. I’d seen the episode of “The [...]

When it comes to powered machinery, I’m a fan of using carbide inserts in the cutterhead instead of traditional straight knives. The cutters last longer, they do a better job on figured [...]

Early in December (the 4th and 5th, to be exact), Popular Woodworking Magazine opens its shop in Cincinnati for another class workshop and DVD session. “Build a Saw Bench with Chris [...]

Wear and tear on an old workbench is always interesting to me. Most of it is predictable and understandable – French marks on the benchtop, the occasional saw kerf in the face vise and always the [...]

 That I re-cycled into a TV Table.      I had about eight pieces of 2x6s from an old, non-treated Pin-nic table.     I re-sawed some into useful [...]

In September I arrived to Purchase College to spend the semester as an Artist in Residence in applied design. I mentioned this in one of my previous blog posts and commended the woodworking [...]