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I had the chance to read about Milwaukee’s new jigsaw a week or so back. In doing so, what caught my attention is how the base or shoe is adjusted. This new feature is, on its own, the [...]

Tell me you didn’t stop to read this entry thinking there might be some YouTube video on how to cut lasagna (actually there is a video, but it’s not worth the trip to view it).  [...]

The March 18th, 2009 edition of Wood Talk Online (WTO) is a program you’ll want to tune-in to hear. As you may remember, we , the hosts of WTO, the head honcho at Acanthus Workshops and the [...]

Before I hung out a shingle to become part of the world of reproduction furniture making, a large portion of my work was producing bookcases and built-in units for new home construction. As you [...]

Construction on the bed wrapped up on Sunday. There was little time in the shop on Saturday, but luckily the wife, my inpatient customer, was busy all day Sunday and I had the entire day to make [...]

The guys pictured here are not Woodworking’s Most Wanted. But if you can answer questions about them, the payoff might be big. The contest is under way.The RulesThe contest opened with last [...]

This is the third part of a series , actually it’s the fourth part because I slipped the Mortise Machine Mortises entry in without a mention of the bed (read that entry here) , about my [...]

Back a few weeks, Wood Talk Online (WTO) , hosted by Marc Spagnoulo and Matt Vanderlist (and sponsored by Popular Woodworking) , ran an interview with Chuck Bender, the chief cook and bottle [...]

I stumbled upon these clamps from Lidwig , an Australian company , a couple weeks back, but decided to hold my post until a few samples made it to our shop. Those samples arrived this week. To [...]

Do you have plans for the furniture you build for magazine articles or for the projects in your books? That’s probably the most-asked question I get when talking with woodworkers. It seems [...]

I cannot imagine the number of mortise-and-tenon joints I’ve cut throughout the years. One of the pieces of furniture I’ve built numerous times, a Shaker Sewing Desk, has 55 of these [...]

In our February 2009 Tool Test, we review SawStop's newest offering – a contractor saw that's  priced well below the cabinet saw price, but with all the safety features SawStop has [...]