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I love “before” and “after” photos of things. This week I picked up a nice 3/16” side-bead plane from Josh Clark (aka Hyperkitten). The tool is a gem. The boxing is perfect. The sole is straight. [...]

The two companies haven’t merged (that’s so 1990s). Woodcraft stores are now going to carry Apollo Sprayer Turbine Systems and Conversion guns. The two companies are working closely to develop an [...]

The good thing about the Internet is that you can find tons of information on nearly any subject in seconds. If you can’t find an answer to your specific question, you can find a forum where you [...]

Here’s a dirty little secret about pinners and brad nailers. Norm Abram isn’t the only woodworker to use them. Many of the guys I know who build reproduction furniture – myself [...]

I’ve been working on a coffee table build for what seems like years. Now that I’m in the closing stages, I went back to look at the first photos I took; that was in mid-October of [...]

Getting the four feet of a sawbench, chair or stool all in the same plane is a challenge for some woodworkers. You can end up nibbling a bar stool into an ottoman if you take the wrong approach. [...]

FORGET RUBIKS CUBE ?HOW ABOUT RUBIKS IN A CUBE.?WHICH IS THE MORE IMPOSSIBLE ?…

THE ALL AMERICAN BASEBALL IN A SOLID CUBE.I THINK THIS WOULD MAKE A NICE TALKING PIECE FOR ANY BASEBALL CLUB IN YOUR COUNTRY.…

MADE FROM OFF CUTS OF 6 X 1X 3/4 GRAVEL BOARD. AND 3X2 TANALISED TIMBER OFF CUTS. THESES WERE 3 AND 4 FT LENGHTS. SOME DAMAGED. BUT All WAS NEEDED IS TO SQUARE UP AND PLANED ALL ROUND.BEFORE I [...]

  Oops! Tongues Refuse to Fit Grooves   I made this cool looking door panel by making cove cuts on my tablesaw. Cool looking, yes, but  the tongue profiles swelled right at the [...]

Every now and then I get a question from a reader about the tool rack that hangs in the window of our shop behind my workbench. The rack in question was originally made in May 2007 for an article [...]

One of my goals in this job has been to help produce a saw sharpening video that makes sense of all the dogma about this simple task. Should you set the teeth before or after you file them? [...]