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It has been a week since my first post on building the bed (read it here), as was pointed out by Bill in the comment section. During the week, I was handed many fine ideas to contemplate and …

Are you sitting on the fence waiting to pull the trigger on the purchase of a few new tools? If so, here’s something you should know about. Beginning today, Grizzly Industrial, Inc. is [...]

About a year and a half back, my spouse informed me that it was time for a new mattress. “Why?” I asked. There were no lumps. There were no valleys at the center of the bed. No rips. [...]

It’s been a while since we first brought these two woodworking accessories to your attention and we continue to receive email and calls asking where to find these bits and blades. So when a [...]

SCTW (Steel City Tool Works) is about to unveil a new suitcase planer that includes its patented helical head. We talked about helical heads being introduced to planers in coverage at 2008 [...]

The white stars on the map above show the location of some of the key U.S. suppliers for the Delta Unisaw and the red stars highlight the contributions of internal Black & Decker [...]

This week Delta invited magazine editors to venture to Jackson, Tenn., for an insider’s view of the facility where the re-invented Unisaw is produced, and we got another, more involved, [...]

Whenever I get the opportunity to speak to a woodworking club or group for the first time, I introduce myself and tell a great story about when my Dad and I first traveled to a lumberyard to [...]

A short while ago, Porter-Cable brought out a new line of tools targeted at professionals. These tools were shown to editors in an event in New York and are in stores now (click here to read [...]

If case you haven’t been watching the calendar, we’re little more than a week away from Christmas. And if you’re working on projects that are the center of your holiday gift [...]

With all the talk at our “Woodworking in America” conference about how to properly sharpen plane blades, I didn’t see or hear one presenter mention a power sharpening system. I [...]

In the 26 months that I’ve been working at Popular Woodworking, we’ve studied and discussed drills in most ways imaginable. We’ve examined batteries moving from 12 volts through [...]