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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 [...]

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 to band saw away the waste on the [...]

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 like [...]

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 thought I [...]

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 well as images [...]

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 while it’s only an hour-and-a-half drive [...]

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 published in our “Shortcuts” [...]

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 raw material selection in building [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 and buy a new Stanley Bed Rock plane [...]

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 inside. 21st-Century Workbench: [...]