What is the Value of Woodworking?
There is an old book we used to print called “How to Make $40,000 a Year with Your Woodworking.” Years ago I dubbed it our only offering in the fiction category. Sure, there are enterprising [...]
Paring Down
Editor’s note: this article originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking I’ve got router planes and shoulder planes, cabinet scrapers, drawknives and shaves to [...]
No One Right Way
This article originally appeared in the June 2013 edition of Popular Woodworking I know I’ve been lucky as I’ve learned to work wood during the past eight years. When I started at Popular [...]
Out on a Limb: Many Woodworkers Have Knowledge Gap
By Steve Shanesy Page: 8 From the June 2004 issue #141 Buy this issue now In the early decades of the 20th century, home woodworking got its start when woodworking machines with electric motors [...]
Out on a Limb: Pricey Tools are Worth the Pain
By Steve Shanesy Page: 10 From the April 2004 issue #140 Buy this issue now While growing up in my house, “making do” was a cardinal principle by which we all lived. It was accepted as fact that [...]
Out of the Woodwork: Ironwood Logs and Mad Bulls
A quest for lumber leads to some fancy firewood, a sore butt and a full gut. By Peter Sieling Page: 104 From the February 2004 issue #139 Buy this issue now The best parts about running a small [...]
Out on a Limb: Join the Club or Get Some Class
By Steve Shanesy Page: 10 From the February 2004 issue #139 Buy this issue now One drawback to woodworking is that it tends to be a solitary activity. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy my time alone in [...]
Out on a Limb: The Dot on the Box Isn’t That Important
By Christopher Schwarz Page: 10 From the December 2005 issue #152 Buy this issue now Just about every day we get at least one call from a reader who wants assistance with selecting a tool or [...]
Out on a Limb: To Every Season Turn, Turn, Turn
By Steve Shanesy Page: 10 From the October 2005 issue #150 Buy this issue now One aspect of woodworking that never occurred to me when I discovered this life-long passion at age 30 was how it [...]
Out on a Limb: Luddites! Normites! It’s Time to Unite
By Christopher Schwarz Page: 10 From the December 2006 issue #159 Buy this issue now Many woodworkers talk about the craft as if there are rifts between two camps of builders – the hand-tool [...]
Out on a Limb: When the Gospel Truth Isn’t True
By Christopher Schwarz Page: 10 From the October 2006 issue #157 Buy this issue now When the package landed on my desk, my first instinct was to call the police. Inside the plain brown wrapper [...]
Out on a Limb: It’s Almost Always User Error
By Christopher Schwarz Page 12 From the November 2007 issue #165 Buy this issue now So I have the assembled carcase of a sideboard braced against my workbench and I’m planing the top edge of the [...]