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If you do any work at all with hand tools, a good marking gauge is an essential piece of equipment. It is the tool that guides all your other tools: It marks your baselines when dovetailing, your [...]

One of the country’s best tool sharpeners will be touring the country this fall to give seminars on his hand-sharpening techniques. Harrelson Stanley, the owner of japanesetools.com and the [...]

Every attendee who entered the International Woodworking Fair this week was greeted by a shocking sight: Grizzly Industrial hung an enormous banner over the main escalator trumpeting its new [...]

It isn’t every day that you see a new tool company appear out of nowhere with a complete line of high-quality woodworking machines, but that is almost exactly what happened in late August [...]

There’s one question that I’m asked almost every week that I cannot answer. And here it is: What brand handplane should I buy if I don’t want to fix up a vintage plane, I [...]

When I cook a pot of chili, I tend to keep throwing in ingredients until I run out of room in the pot. Often I have to switch to a bigger pot, or split the batch among two pots. When …

Tuesday morning, the Popular Woodworking staff heads to Atlanta for the International Woodworking Fair to see all the new tools that will be in the stores just in time for Christmas (what a [...]

Since the day I started wearing pants with pockets I’ve carried a knife. From elementary school in Arkansas to college in Chicago to writing about plane crashes in South Carolina, the only [...]

When I unpacked the box for this circa 1979 Rockwell band saw there was only one part missing: the V-belt that connected the pulley on the motor to the pulley on the lower wheel. But the missing [...]

If you enjoy reading our magazines, you probably would enjoy working here. We have, by all rights, a sweet setup: Our modern offices here in Cincinnati open up onto our nicely equipped cabinet [...]

You can now download free SolidWorks illustrations for the Stickley Magazine Stand from Issue No. 3 and the Sliding-lid Box from Issue No. 2. The printed versions of these back issues have been [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a short excerpt from Troy Sexton’s article on jigsaws in the October 2006 issue of Popular Woodworking. This issue is available in stores and from our [...]