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Sometimes when I write, I come to a question that paralyzes me – and I cannot continue until I get it answered. As a newspaper journalist, I was trained to “write my way around the [...]

This morning Chuck Bender from Acanthus Workshop stopped by the office on his way to deliver a piece of furniture to a client outside Cincinnati. After the traditional 15 minutes of Glen D. Huey [...]

With many manufacturers adding the option of spiral cutterheads to their jointers and planers – if you toss out the standard three-knife cutterhead and pull a few extra dollars out of your wallet [...]

If you ever needed more evidence that woodworkers have always been a parsimonious lot, look no further than the December 1901 issue of the British magazine The Woodworker. In an article on [...]

I never cared for carved furniture until I saw some 17th-century American chests in Wallace Nutting’s “Furniture of the Pilgrim Century.” (A low-resolution GoogleBooks version [...]

Lois Keener Ventura, author of Sculpted Band Saw Boxes, is placing her one-of-a-kind box sculpture (pictured on the cover of her book) up for a week-long eBay auction starting November 5. As a [...]