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I really like how, as an editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine (PWM), I have a say in what is covered throughout the year in the printed pages , and how nice it is to intertwine projects that I [...]

This past week I was contacted by a reader in Chicago. He’s considering driving down to the Woodworking in America conference (WIA) to experience the Marketplace and had hopes of purchasing [...]

You’ve no doubt heard about the new woodworking show from WGBH, the Boston PBS station that brought you “The New Yankee Workshop.” The show is called “Rough Cut , [...]

Woodworking in America opens in a little less than two weeks and again this year we are preparing for the Hand Tool Olympics. We have the same events scheduled as in the previous year’s [...]

Take a look at the above photo. What you see is the embryonic beginning to the power tool portion of the 2010 Woodworking in America Conference (WIA). General International stepped up to supply [...]

At the Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers show in Las Vegas three years ago, Steel City Tool Works (SCTW) took the woodworking world by storm with the introduction of granite [...]

In most woodworking shops, space is at a premium. If you could increase the size of your shop, you would. And unless you have oodles of space, I’m willing to bet your finishing room is even [...]

In my work, I hear from many of the woodworking machine manufacturers. One company stands out as a front runner when it comes to new machines coming to market: General International. As I survey [...]

I had to move from one end of the hall to the other in order at the International Woodworking Fair to keep my appointment with the folks at Rockler, but I wasn’t disappointed with what they [...]

This morning at the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta, DeWalt and Porter-Cable each took the wraps off a new compact router. While there are some differences, there is one shared [...]

In the world of woodworking band saw blades, you have regular-guy blades (the carbon steel blades used for everything under the sun), you can upgrade to a silicon steel blade , at about double [...]

Batteries in drill-drivers have traveled up then down the entire voltage spectrum. I began using 9-volt drill , maybe it was 9. something, I don’t remember exactly. What I do remember is my [...]