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This is the second part of Evolution of a Woodworker. (Don’t bother to look for the first of the series. Like every great trilogy should, I’m starting in the middle.)...

  From the February 2007 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine.   I was on our local swim team as a child, and I was an embarrassment to my pool, my...

Lee Valley Tool’s latest plane is turning a lot of heads this week. Most people are amazed at its small size (3-3/16″ long), its premium features (an investment cast steel...

Japanese tool expert and merchant Harrelson Stanley spent a month late last fall trekking through the country in his motor home to teach his hand sharpening techniques and hold planing...

With so many excellent hand tools on the market, it’s hard to find the space in the magazine to take the mediocre ones to task as much as I’d like....

When we talk about stock preparation by hand, we always talk about planes. But I find saws are far more important to the process. Blow a cross cut, and you’re...