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It is unwise to rush when installing vises on a workbench. So I stopped whipping the maggots students during the last two days of the class and encouraged them to work at their own pace. Some [...]

This is my Roubo Design based very heavily on Christopher Schwarz Design from his book "Workbenches from Design & Theory to Construction and Use".

I usually keep a log that records all the time I work on a project in the shop. But few people believe me when I say that I spend about 40 hours building an ancient workbench. Their disbelief is [...]

Normally I don’t like to begin a story with a question (or an adverb), but: What Was I Drinking? When the Northeastern Woodworkers [...]

Yes, I thought the saga of the Roubo Bookstand article from the February 2011 issue was over (“It’s awesome!” “It’s crap!” “I like mushy peas!”). But no. Here we are weeks later, and there is [...]