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A nickel in summer, a dime in winter is a seat of the pants method for figuring gaps around drawers and doors. If you’d like something more precise, and you’d...

After five years of whining, someone listened to (or became merely weary of) my complaints about the search function on this blog. We now have a custom Google search bar...

We spend three days with the world's most expensive planes. Are they just jewelry? Or do they work better than your plane?

When I worked at a liquor bottling plant one summer, the bosses found out I was in college and decided to put me in charge of the robots. I had...

Umbrella Stand Build this simple, elegant stand and you’ll have it made in the shade come summer. By Dave Munkittrick Market umbrellas have a certain magical quality to them. Whether...

If you want to spray finishes indoors, you need an exhaust system. This affordable homemade set-up makes it possible and affordable.

Sometimes the hardest part of working with wood is simply finding it. Here are the strategies we use to keep our wood racks full.

I can make my own beef jerky, but that doesn’t mean I want to apply veneer-making techniques to a hapless bovine. So when I found out that long-time woodworker Bill...

The cutting list for the …?The Return of Roubo’ workbench in the August 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine has a small error in the cutting list. And I’d like...

At different points in our tour of the veneer mill, our guide would point out a certain element, or an individual who played a critical role in keeping the operation...

On the last day of the Furniture Society 2010 conference at MIT, I met Randy Johnson for breakfast. This I think was the first time (I am almost sure about...

Our backlog of “End Grain” articles (the last editorial page of the magazine), is running dangerously low; it’s time to restock the file, and we need your help. So, we’re...