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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 [...]

Confusing the Beginners-In Person I don’t make many personal appearances, but next Saturday, October 27, I will be at the Woodcraft store in Roswell, Georgia. I’ll be giving some [...]

Preparing small tabletops or irregular-shaped tops for finishing can be difficult with handplanes. If the top has a lot of mass, you can usually count on friction to help hold the top in place. [...]

I’ve never been satisfied with any shop apron. They have been too flimsy, too hot to wear, poorly designed and uncomfortable (for starters). For about a year I’ve been tinkering with [...]

Fans of Greene & Greene furniture often refer to a trip to Pasadena as a pilgrimage. Pasadena (and the nearby Huntington Museum) is home to the majority of original Greene & Greene work [...]

Each month I receive newsletters from woodworking clubs and guilds around the country. Some come from groups I’ve spent time with and some arrive from people I’ve met while doing [...]

One of the reasons for the success and growth of Wood Werks Supply has been the willingness of the owners to try something new to better serve their customers. When I lived in Columbus, Ohio, it [...]

The finest maker of handmade rasps and rifflers has closed its factory in Saint-Juery, France, after a protracted labor struggle with its workers, according to a release from Michel Auriou. The [...]

The finest maker of handmade rasps and rifflers has closed its factory in Saint-Juery, France, after a protracted labor struggle with its workers, according to a release from Michel Auriou. The [...]

Editor Christopher Schwarz gets trounced in a handsawing contest, but does OK in the planing competition at a recent hand-tool event sponsored by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks.

As of September 30th, LumberJocks’ Virtual Dining Table Challenge came to and end. Did you get in on the challenge? There are a number of great entries from those fluent in SketchUp as well [...]

This morning I took a ride up I-71 to Columbus to pay a visit to Wood Werks Supply. It’s the weekend for their annual Fall Expo, and I haven’t been by the store since moving to [...]