Lie-Nielsen to Offer a Roubo Workbench
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks continues to turn back the clock (a good thing in the world of hand-tool woodworking). The Warren, Maine, manufacturer plans to offer a version of the 18th-century French-style...
For This I Get Paid? Part 3
As I mentioned in my entry from yesterday, my first order of business this morning (after stirring in the skin at the top of the glue pot — blech) was...
When Design and Craftsmanship Don’t Meet
Whenever John Economaki of Bridge City Tools teaches classes about furniture design, he always asks his students a question that seems to have no good answer. The question goes something...
For This I Get Paid? Part 2
To start off the second day in Phil Lowe’s “Building a Demilune Table” class, we rub jointed 34 pieces with 15Ã?° angles on each end into chevrons (shown above). I...
Greene and Greene from a Woodworker’s Perspective
Many talented and able photographers have published photographs of the work of Charles and Henry Greene. I own most of the books and have spent many hours studying these, as...
For This I Get Paid? Part 1
Monday morning, I left my house at 5:30 a.m. to drive to Franklin, Ind., to the Marc Adams School of Woodworking. I had to be there by 8 a.m., and...
Quick Contest: Win a Restored Drill for the Best Trick
Type up your best shop trick, tip or shortcut this week and you could win a restored Millers Falls 2A hand drill (which sells for more than $100) and get...
Raising a Wood Snob
This weekend we went to a little street fair in downtown Cincinnati to see some art, eat some Belgian waffles and , unbeknownst to us , consider the question of...
The Mystery of the Dangerous Flying Bats
Broken baseball bats are becoming so commonplace that Major League Baseball has undertaken a study to determine what’s behind this growing phenomenon. The concern, of course, is the [...]
Greene and Greene Fans Get Ready
Last October, David Mathias reported from Pasadena’s Craftsman Weekend with photos and first hand accounts of the events. The only criticism we received was that these reports were too late...
Another Stunning Drill from Wiktor Kuc
For those of us who buy old tools, one of the fantasies involves time travel. Wouldn’t it be cool to walk into a hardware store in the late 19th century...
A Preview of the October 2008 Issue of Popular Woodworking
The next issue of Popular Woodworking will be heading into mailboxes in the next two weeks, so we thought we’d give you a quick look at what you can expect...
