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I recently received an e-mail from reader Joe Polich seeking help to identify an old table saw he acquired. Before reading the message and looking at the photos, I was thinking it was likely a [...]

Video Paul Seller’s Mini-Master Class Thermally modified wood Accurize Your Tablesaw Plans for building a shaving horse Plans for building a steam box Shopmade handscrews Skew planing [...]

Jeff Miller’s new and important book, “The Foundations of Better Woodworking: How to use your body, tools and materials to do your best work,” is now available for pre-order at [...]

Discover the inspiration and advice you need to build all your holiday projects! If you’re like most woodworkers, you’re already searching for projects you can make for friends and [...]

Christopher Schwarz just posted on his Lost Art Press blog about his latest parlor trick: “Making a Sawbench in 60 Minutes or Less (or More).” He’ll be doing this on stage (I [...]

Last month I posted an entry on a portable workbench top that had poked its head up in Australia and Europe. The version from Denmark inspired me to build it. But I haven’t gotten around to that [...]

In every craft, there is a magic device that acolytes must learn to manipulate and master. In joinery, I think dividers (aka the compass) are our totemistic thingy. In journalism, you have to [...]

This is a mixture of scaffold planks pallets and plywood.  Ideal if you have 2 dogs . WHO WILL FIGHT FOR TOP BUNK???? All simple ideas designs .Basic tools and a bit of know how ??  …

As always this single divan is made from pallets . The divan bed for your loved pet .. …you too can do this .simple and easy to do .make your loved one happy a mans best friend .…

Every other day or so, I get an e-mail about the quotations we ran in Woodworking Magazine and “used” to run in Popular Woodworking Magazine, from folks wondering why we no longer [...]

As a child, I disliked assembling puzzles. What’s the fun in piecing together hundreds of pieces of cardboard into a flat image of a happy whale family? But Lincoln Logs, on the other hand, had [...]

Building a Roorkhee chair is one thing. Assembling it without looking like a lowly private is quite another. In the October 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I showed you how to build [...]