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          I discovered the hard way that sanding on a lathe can be hard on the fingers. Now, to protect my fingers, I cut the fingertips...

THIS IS MADE FROM A PINE PALLET. THE DOWELS WERE MADE WITH A ROUTER ATTACHED TO MY LATHE..HAD TO MAKE A JIG UP TO FIX TO THE LATHE BEFORE I...

“Unplugged,” has its roots in the music industry, but woodworkers are quickly making the term their own. And one of the more vocal supporters of unplugged woodworking is Popular [...]

Pick up most any woodworking magazine from the past and you can’t help but see advertisements for furniture kits. I know you’ve seen them, the reproductions from The Bartley Collection...

Several readers have encouraged me to take a look at the OXO 16″ folding ruler, which is an inexpensive aluminum recreation of the classic 19th-century folding ruler. I picked one...

NOW AND AGAIN I GET THE ODD FEW CD DISCS THAT ARE THROWN IN THE RECYCLE BINS ,I HAVE ABOUT 160 SO FAR. SEE WHAT I MADE FROM THEM NEXT...

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS OHIO,31-WHIT,6-1 I’ll never forget the time my sister and I used a free 10-hour AOL CD to dial into the Internet. Even...

A small box arrives at my desk , it’s no more than a 5″ cube. Inside the box is a new product from Demo Air Net (shown above in its...

I’ve always felt a bit guilty about our collection of SketchUp models on Google’s 3D Warehouse. It is such a great resource for our readers (and us) that it doesn’t...

Still in the midst of stripping my stairs, I’m trying not to use any smelly, highly dangerous chemicals , nothing that requires a mask or moving the cats out for...

We’re hard at work this month planning the 2010 Woodworking in America conference, which is scheduled for Oct. 1-3 in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area. Because this conference will be in...

This thing is a work of art, and if you have an extra $375 it can be yours. Sadly, I have already sold my share of plasma this month or...