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When a woodworker hears the words “lock miter,” they are apt to think Arts & Craft furniture and Stickley. The router bit shown below is what we use today to make a similar joint, [...]

Festool markets the new T 12 + 3 Lithium-ion cordless drill set as a five-in-one drill. The set includes an eccentric chuck, a 1⁄2” keyless drill chuck, a quick-change “Centrotec” chuck and [...]

In February 2010, at a home show in New England, the woodworking community was shaken with the news that WGBH , the station that brought us Norm Abram , was about to re-enter the woodworking [...]

In woodworking, there is major discussion, when talking about handheld tools, as to whether it’s necessary to have an impact driver. You bet these tools are great for homebuilding and many [...]

The new sander from Mirka, “CEROS,” is about to change the way many woodworkers sand. This innovative tool brings the look and feel of air-driven sanding to the electric-powered user. [...]

Take a look at the photo above. What do you see? Of course it’s a couple sanders! And I’ll give you that both are made by Mirka, the company that serves up Abranet (our favorite [...]

Tapered legs lighten the look and add ‘spring’ to a table’s design. You can create tapered legs using your jig saw.

Glen D. Huey explains a bit of history about drawer slips and shows how they work in this reproduction of a Queen Anne dressing table featured on the cover of the June 2010 issue of

The Carlos Osorio vs. One World Technologies Inc. et. al. lawsuit centers on whether the table saw being used when Osorio’s accident occurred was defective. Osorio’s team claims the [...]

Ã?© As are all of our blog posts, this story is protected by copyright; Popular Woodworking Magazine, 2010. If you’re a woodworker, you know about the landmark lawsuit , Carlos Osorio vs. [...]

As I wrapped up the work on an article for the June issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine (a dressing table copied from an antique that has the easiest interior construction I’ve ever seen [...]

Earlier, I posted an entry about the number of table saws in use in the United States. (Click here to read that piece.) In the post, the figure was pushed from 700,000, as represented in The [...]