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A few weeks ago I was reading through “The Rule Book,” an amazing piece of scholarship on measuring tools by Jane Rees and Mark Rees. A few of the minty, minty old rules in the book [...]

Since Ron Herman’s excellent story on miter boxes appeared in the November 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, the price of these tools has gone through the roof, according to some [...]

Senior Editor Glen D. Huey and I cut dovetails in completely different ways. But we entirely agree on one point: People make the joint a lot more difficult than necessary. There is a time for [...]

Here’s a short trailer of the forthcoming DVD “Build a Sawbench with Christopher Schwarz” that will be released in a few weeks. If you pre-order the DVD, you’ll save $5 [...]

Right in the thick of Woodworking in America – somewhere between duck fat fries and falling asleep in a puddle of what I hope was my drool – Mark Harrell of Bad Axe Tool Works put a saw down on [...]

If you use saws powered by meat and muscle, you need a pair of sawbenches. Both you and the saw work a lot better when your work rests on these kneecap-high platforms. For the last five years [...]

After last weekend’s orgy of tools, woodworking and back-breaking workbench moving at Woodworking in America, I decided to take a break today and buy some tools and old woodworking books , [...]

What are you doing next weekend? Wanna build a sawbench and become famous? We are shooting a DVD on Oct. 16 and 17 on building a sawbench entirely by hand and thought the whole thing would be [...]

The machinery room at Dick GmbH is a power tool lover’s dream. It has an enormous sliding table saw, a jointer/thicknesser the size of a small car and a huge band saw. But there’s no [...]

How many saws does it take to cut giant dovetails? In my case, three. Sure, those of you with mad saw skills might simply whip out the panel saw and go at it. But I’m not that brave. [...]

With Chris in Germany, I’m afraid this post will be sorely lacking in metaphors involving wee creatures (I simply haven’t my boss’ flair for metaphor). I do, however, recall [...]

Now that there are so many sawmakers out there, it’s no surprise that they are all trying to offer something a little different than the rock-solid Independence dovetail saw that kicked off [...]