The Bosch 10.8v I-Driver. Dang.
Today I’m abandoning a prototype design I’ve been working on this week between bouts of tending our gerund farm. I’d like to have a Viking funeral for this little end table, but [...]
Tool Test: Beadlock Pro
It’s a well-known fact that a mortise-and-tenon joint is the strongest woodworking joint (if it’s made correctly). On the web, there have been lengthy discussions about loose-tenon [...]
Jointmaker Pro: Its Origins and Our First Day
Yesterday morning I started getting serious with the Bridge City Jointmaker Pro that John Economaki loaned us for a month. I’m building a quick and dirty prototype of a Frank Lloyd [...]
Writing Arts & Mysteries
One of the unique things about Popular Woodworking’s Arts and Mysteries column is that it has long, sometimes year long, series. Let’s face it. Woodworking magazines have been in [...]
Jointmaker Pro: A Few Test Cuts
John Economaki from Bridge City Tools is in our shop today before he demonstrates his new Jointmaker Pro saw to about 60 of our readers. As we were setting up the saw we took a few test cuts. The [...]
A Smoothing Plane for When Grain Gets Nasty
Lately I’ve been planing stuff that has been a lot nastier than your typical run-of-the-mill cherry, oak and walnut. First Senior Editor Glen D. Huey tried to torture me by bringing in some [...]
Bob’s Bench-Week 2 Becomes Week 3
Sometimes it’s hard to get enough shop time in, and that’s how it’s felt the last week and a half. We’ve been scrambling to get the next issue of Woodworking Magazine [...]
Five Questions with The Wood Whisperer
Marc and Nicole Spagnuolo, The Wood Whisperer and The Wood Whisperer’s videographer and wife, were in town and stopped to visit Popular Woodworking magazine. The visit was a result of a [...]
Writing Arts & Mysteries
To hear Chris Schwarz describe it, writing for Popular Woodworking meant endless parties and very little “real” work. Now in my fourth year, I find it more similar to a vocational [...]
New Jig Saw Blades From Bosch
Bosch has just announced the introduction of a revolutionary new blade for jigsaws. Designated the “T 308B Xtra Clean for Wood,” this blade promises , and delivers , better cuts than [...]
How to Bend the Hinges of the Sea Chest
What I dislike most about the Summer 2008 issue is the fact that I didn’t get to build the Sea Chest that Glen D. Huey constructed. I had designed the entire issue around me getting to [...]
Workbench for Wheelchair Users
Anyone who builds furniture while in a wheelchair is up against serious challenges. Not only are the machines and workbenches too high off the floor, getting the wheelchair close enough to the [...]
