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I’ve been getting questions almost daily about the 18th-century French-style workbench I built for the cover of the August 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The questions go [...]

In my work, I hear from many of the woodworking machine manufacturers. One company stands out as a front runner when it comes to new machines coming to market: General...

I had to move from one end of the hall to the other in order at the International Woodworking Fair to keep my appointment with the folks at Rockler, but...

CLS TREE SEAT IDEAL FOR THE LONLEY TREE IN YOUR GARDEN…EASY TO DO JUST GET THE LENGHTS AND ANGLES RIGHT.WITH THE  BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF WOODWORK YOU TOO CAN DO THIS.

Learning to sharpen has little to do with your sharpening stones. It has a lot more to do with being able to see your progress and knowing when to stop....

Earlier this summer, I made a series of posts on this blog about how veneer is made. The photos in those posts came from a trip I made in June...

This morning at the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta, DeWalt and Porter-Cable each took the wraps off a new compact router. While there are some differences, there is one...

THE MENU BOARD JUST FOR SHOW TILL I GET TO PAINT IT BLACKBOARD PAINT,OR IF I CAN FIND SOME WHITE BOARD SO IT CAN USE WIPE OFF MARKER.BUT ALL IN...

THESE MINI BENCHES WILL BE MADE TO HOLD MENUS ,THESE WILL SIT ON TABLE OF MAIN BENCHES. ALL OFF CUTS ,JUST A NOVELTY IDEAS.THESE ARE UNFINISHED JUST MAKING ONE OFF...

One of the things that can overwhelm a beginning woodworker is the sheer number of choices to make about the simplest things. It doesn’t help that there is always someone...

Nor is it about the workbench. It’s about my sawbenches. During every project I wonder how I ever got by without them. Like Tonya Harding, I think there’s something special...

We’ve been testing the Veritas Quick-release Sliding Tail Vise for several months now and have been keeping as mum as possible. Now I can break my mum-ness and discuss this...