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In my last Bed Build entry (click here to read), I had finished construction and many of you expressed an interest in how I planned to finish the piece. Around...

I’ve seen better workbenches in prisons. Really. And that’s not a criticism of the more than 100 woodworkers (and their spouses) who entered our “Most Pathetic Workbench [...]

Day 3 at Kelly Mehler’s school of woodworking started with a rousing discussion of Journeymans’ wages, servitude, and slavery. Period furniture was not “build to print”. [...]

My grandfather’s folding rule reads from right to left, while my tape measure reads from left to right. I never thought much about it, though I always did like using...

March 23, 2009 , Almost a year to the day that I was first approached about writing a book on building furniture using hand tools, Made By Hand, Furniture Projects...

Make plans to be in Cincinnati on May 16-17, 2009, for a free woodworking show at our offices here at Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine. Lie-Nielsen Toolworks’ traveling Hand Tool...

Make plans to be in Cincinnati on May 16-17, 2009, for a free woodworking show at our offices here at Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine. Lie-Nielsen Toolworks’ traveling Hand Tool...

We looked at 18th c joinery at Kelly’s shop for day 2 for our examination of 18th c cabinetmaking tools and techniques. We started the day with an off the...

Kelly Mehler graciously invited me to teach a class at his school. We put our heads together and came up with a basic 18th c hand skills class. Kelly’s well...

Here are a couple of candle holders that were made from some old oak boards that were almost used for firewood.

I had the chance to read about Milwaukee’s new jigsaw a week or so back. In doing so, what caught my attention is how the base or shoe is adjusted....

After much tribulation, the Spring 2009 issue of Woodworking Magazine is in the mail stream and arriving in homes in the Midwest this week. Depending on the speed and reliability...