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New Book on Southern Furniture: What Pieces Would You Include?
If you’re a student of furniture, furniture scholar, woodworker or just looking for another creative outlet, it’s a good thing that you stopped by to read this post. Popular Woodworking Magazine [...]
Secrets of a Museum Secretary
On May 9th, Bob Lang and I headed south to Winston-Salem, North Carolina for a quick visit to the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) and Old Salem. The purpose for our trip was to [...]
Good, Better & Best Furniture
Somewhere amongst the 130 books selected as the best books on woodworking in our article “The Craft Classics in Just 5’” from June 2011 issue (#190), is a copy of “The New Fine Points of [...]
More Hand-cut Dovetail Cheating
This past weekend I was in the magazine shop working on a project for the August issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The only hint I can give about the project is that the piece I’m working on [...]
Fitting a Fan to the Tea Caddy
Building the tea caddy from the June 2011 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is anything but traditional. I looked for alternative methods for much of the work including the fan inlay at each [...]
The Next Generation of Woodworkers?
Fridays are fun, but it’s Saturday at a woodworking event – such as this weekend’s Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event held at the offices of Popular Woodworking Magazine – when you can get a better [...]
JET’s Vortex Dust Collector
When it comes to … well most anything, I’m a huge skeptic. I’m not a conspiracy theorist mind you, but I seldom believe what I hear or read. I have to be convinced. Tool manufacturers, [...]
A Ruckus at Lie-Nielsen Event
There’s going to be a some unruliness at this year’s Lie-Nielsen show held at the Popular Woodworking Magazine shop on April 15th and 16th. I know this because I plan to cause the ruckus. [...]
Cheap & Simple Dado Jig
If you follow my woodworking habits, you are well aware that I enjoy using my routers with pattern bits chucked in the collet. The piece I’m working on for the August issue requires repetitive [...]
Hand-cut Dovetails 2.0 with Rob Cosman
If you’re interested in learning to cut dovetails by hand, boy do you have choices. Google hand-cut dovetail videos and the returns total more than 100,000 (no, I didn’t count them). Yesterday I [...]
The New Mark VII from Shopsmith
In case you don’t recognize the tool (or should I say tools) in the photo, it’s a Shopsmith, one of the original combination woodworking machines. Many of you may have thought the company was [...]