Is this Vise Really Ideal?

When I was researching historic workbenches, I tried like crazy to get my hands on a style of bench vise that (to my knowledge) isn’t made in this country anymore....

My Favorite Woodworking Writers

A drawing of Jim Tolpin on the job from “Jim Tolpin’s Woodworking Wit & Wisdom.” I remember binding my first book when I was about 10 (it was an illustrated...

Unisaw: Made in the U.S.A.

The white stars on the map above show the location of some of the key U.S. suppliers for the Delta Unisaw and the red stars highlight the contributions of internal...

Top 10 Woodworking Projects of 2008

Here’s the top-ten list of the most-read projects from the Popular Woodworking website for all of 2008. By far, the most visited articles were shop-related projects starting with the [...]

Gaining More Shop Space

You’d think a two-car garage would make a better woodworking shop than a one-car garage, right?  Generally correct, but when you don’t get sole use of the entire two-car garage...

The Roubo Meets the EyeClops

It’s perhaps the ugliest photo of my Roubo-style workbench ever taken, but the image above is a picture of its Southern yellow pine benchtop that’s magnified 200x. It looks a...