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On our newest CD, “The Arts & Mysteries of Hand Tools,” we’ve collected everything Contributing Editor Adam Cherubini has written over the years , from his first “Arts [...]

To all our Chicago-area readers: We would (of course) love to have you join us for the weekend, or even just one day, at the St. Charles Woodworking in America...

In my review of drawbore pins in the Summer 2009 issue, one of my gripes with many of the tools were the round handles. A round handle plus a round...

  As I did on the sides, the lower front rails will have a decorative cut. So I take the time to make a router pattern guide to get identical...

TABLE AND 2 BENCHES NOW COMPLETE MADE FROM 90MM X 40 MM CLS TIMBER GLUED SCREWED AND OILED.!

Time to drop my drawers and lose all my Neander-cred. My favorite planing stop for drawers and casework is the rip fence on my $1,200 Unisaw. The rip fence is...

I’ve learned alot about baroque carving making this chair. Yes, yes, I know this is a Rococo carving and Rococo is different from Baroque. But I yes, it’s the baroque...

 To make perfect face frames, I check and I identify each of the joints with letters.   Since I want to assemble the face frames with biscuits, I mark the...

For those of you who made it to the Cincinnati Lie-Nielsen Travelin’ Hand Tool event, you know how great it was to get your hands on a huge range of...

“While plaining at my bench, my whole soul was enshrouded with a mantle of tribulation; but I kept on at my plaining, & soon it appeared to me that my...

AS I RECYCLE WHY WASTE A BOTTLE? DECK OF CARDS IN ANOTHER BOTTLE. SOMETHING TO BAFFLE YOUR BRAINS OVER THE WEEKEND.THE OTHER DECK YOU SEE WILL FIND ITS WAY INTO...

Being in the right place at the right time has its rewards. I’ve worked at woodworking for two decades and I’ve never used anything with the name Yates or Colladay...