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THIS I MADE FOR A GOLF FANATIC,HE THOUGHT HE HAD SEEN EVERYTHING THERE WAS TO ON A GOLF COURSE EVEN THE ODD HOLE IN ONE? BUT HE NEVER SAW THIS HOLE IN ONE. TO THIS DAY HE STILL WONDERS HOW …

TODAY I AM BUYING A 2ND HAND RADIAL ARM SAW , IT WAS ON EBAY THE 1251 DEWALT IT WAS A BUY NOW BID AND I GOT IT FOR £155 .ALWAYS WANTED ONE AS THEY ARE SO VERSATILE,THAT YOU CAN DO [...]

FROM A SKIP OFF CUTS OF COPPER PIPE 3/4 AND 22MM SOME ARE 2 TO 3 FOOT LONG AND SOME ARE CHROME .NO GOOD TO ANYONE THOSES LENGHTS.EXCEPT ME. UNIQUE PHOTO FRAMES .FEW MITRES AND A BIT OF SOLDER AND [...]

Before Mike Wenzloff became a professional sawmaker, he was a furniture maker. Before that he was in graphic design. Before that? An almost-minister. And before that? Fetus? Nope. Logger. But [...]

Don’t buy the knife shown above. You’ll likely find it useless for dovetailing. It will languish at the bottom of your tool box, mocking you every time you push it and the Black & [...]

    Before proceeding to build and install the face frames, I want to simulate several years of heavy uses on the shelves.   Since I’m working at the face level, I take all [...]

When I attended the 20th anniversary of Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, John Economaki of Bridge City Tools was at the next table. When Thomas Lie-Nielsen called out Bridge City as one of the other [...]

SawStop has done it again. First, the company developed and integrated a safety system to keep woodworkers from being maimed by a spinning saw blade. Now the group at SawStop has tackled the [...]

Let's face it – it's tough enough to be a good woodworker, let alone be able to write about it. But when it comes to taking photos of your work to share with friends (or magazine editors) [...]

Today I got the magazine’s staff involved in evaluating carcase saws for the Autumn 2009 issue of Woodworking Magazine. But before I could cut the staff loose on the saws, I had to make [...]

Announcing the ‘Hand Tool Olympics’ at Woodworking in America In sports, you need to compete against a superior player to improve your own game. So to make you a more skilled [...]

The words “always” and “never” will get you in trouble , so you should always endeavor to never use them. During the early stages of learning to cut dovetails, I foolishly [...]