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Popular Woodworking contributor David Mathias wraps up his coverage of Craftsman Weekend in Pasadena, California. Wednesday October 24 I planned my trip to Craftsman Weekend for about a year and...

Shipping begins very soon for my new book “Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use” (Popular Woodworking Books). The book has arrived in our warehouse from the [...]

Shipping begins very soon for my new book “Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & Use” (Popular Woodworking Books). The book has arrived in our warehouse from the [...]

A couple readers commented that the Shaker-inspired step stool we featured in the “I Can Do That” column in the November 2007 issue was missing horizontal supports across the sides,...

Popular Woodworking contributor David Mathias continues his reports from the Craftsman Weekend in Pasadena, California. Pasadena Heritage Craftsman Weekend is a three-day event. My trip to [...]

Some interesting information crossed my desk this past week. General International is introducing a series of tools, known as “Access by General,” designed specifically for wheelchair [...]

This weekend I put the finishing touches on two Stickley tabourets; and while the little tables turned out to my satisfaction, the construction process proved quite vexing considering there are...

John Griffin-Wiesner writes: Thanks to your blog posting last week which alerted me to the closing of Auriou, I purchased my only three Auriou rasps. While explaining them to a...

This week I’m getting ready to build a Shaker firewood box for the I Can Do That column in our sister publication, Popular Woodworking. I really like building projects for...

Most woodworkers consider the thickness planer to be one of the most important machines in a woodshop. As a result, many manufacturers have produced a variety of sizes in planers....

As I mentioned last week one of our authors, David Mathias, is spending a week in California immersing himself in all things Greene & Greene. Here is the first of...

Kelly Mehler has opened the registration for his 2008 classes, including three classes that I’ll be teaching on precision handsawing, planecraft and building the Holtzapffel workbench from [...]