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One of my favorite woodworkers who has been exploring the Roubo bench with me is Robert Giovannetti of Crystal Lake, Illinois. He’s a hard-core woodworker, builds his own planes and...

Everything I know that is worth a darn was taught to me by someone else who knew their stuff , planing, sawing and all my machine skills came from other...

One of my favorite movies as a teen-ager had a scene where a 1940s-era G-man goes to a mystic for help in becoming a superhero. The G-man shows the mystic...

Two more volumes of Roubo’s masterwork on the woodworking trades have trickled into my hands. I’m still missing two volumes I really want, and I’m probably going to have to...