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If you own any books about the Shakers or their furniture, you probably have seen a small storage cabinet like this one hanging in the background behind the more celebrated pieces.

Here’s our favorite time-waster this morning: Norm Abram and his shop constructed entirely from LEGOs.Duane Hess, a woodworker, New Yankee Workshop fan and a LEGO modeler for a gaming [...]

Several years back I was fitting some 1/4″-thick mullions and muntins into a door and needed to plane the little suckers to remove their sawmarks. Planing thin stock can be a real pain. [...]

Rob Porcaro demonstrates his workbench upgrades from his home workshop. See his ideas in use, then build them from the pages of the November 2007 issue of the magazine.

The back page of the upcoming issue of Woodworking Magazine (which mails to subscribers at the end of November) focuses on wood structure. What’s the difference among ring-porous woods, [...]

“You can never have enough clamps.” I’ll bet many of you know from whom that quote came (read below if you haven’t a clue). And I would also bet you think that is a sound [...]

One of the most powerful things about hand tools is that they allow you to work on small areas of a board with ease. Instead of running the whole board through an electric planer to remove a [...]

Black powder fits the bill to split large urban logs.

Pickling oak or pine is easy using some white paint and solvent.

Reader Tim Williams writes: I have a number of old Stanley planes that I’ve spent a lot of hours cleaning and refurbishing. I’ve read multiple places about how when tuning up a plane, [...]

Spade bits are not necessarily the first drill bits you look toward when drilling holes while woodworking, but we all have a few sizes at hand. I generally turn to spade bits for specially-sized [...]

Senior Editor Glen D. Huey walks you step by step through the process of making the custom cove moulding for his tea table. All it takes is your table saw and an auxiliary fence.