French Workbench Class – Day 5

Installing vises in workbenches is always a finicky process – unless you go for a super-simple setup like the one I prefer: A quick-release vise for the end vise and a simple leg vise for the [...]

Goodbye, Glen

No, this is not an obituary (but it feels a bit like one). You see, Glen D. Huey, senior editor, has decided to leave Popular Woodworking Magazine as a staff member and go back to building [...]

Premium Blade Set

Premium Blade Set Upgrading a blade and chipbreaker can turn a pretty good plane into a dream tool. If you’ve been thinking about buying a premium plane, here’s an alternative plan: [...]

AW Extra – Reitveld Chair

Reitveld Chair We’ve turned an icon of modern design into a comfortable, easy-to-build outdoor project. By Tom Caspar In 1918 the Dutch cabinetmaker Gerrit Rietveld reduced the idea of a [...]

THE SQUARE

THIS IS JUST A TRIAL USING OFF CUTS AND MITRES PLUS STAPLES TO SEE THE SQUARE IN A SQUARE.!! THIS EVENTUALLY WILL BE MADE FROM A HARDWOOD.DEPENDS WHAT OFFCUTS I CAN FIND..MAYBE WITH PEN TO PAPER [...]

TRIANGLE

JUST HAD EMAIL FROM MR.EDWARD MEYER OF RIPLEYS SEEING IS BELIEVING MUSEUM,HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO BUY MY TRIANGLE FOR THEIR MUSEUM.THE NEW TRIANGLE WILL BE MADE IN HARDWOOD,AND WILL BE SLIGHTLY [...]

French Workbench Class – Day 4

When I walked into the shop at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking this morning at 8:24 a.m., the place was a wreck. The students were fitting their joints among piles of shavings and sawdust [...]

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