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You have to admit that the design of the newest jigsaw from Ridgid is a bit unique. It is a barrel-grip jigsaw with an extreme flat front – as it...

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 The harbingers of Autumn are, for me, riotously colored...

When your handplane won’t create a perfect surface, there are several things to check. Here’s how I diagnose the problem when it looks like I’m making plane tracks in my...

SIMPLE TO DO WITH OFF CUTS THAT ARE 3 INCH X 8 INCH X 1 INCH.WITH XMAS COMING UP. IDEAL GIFTS.

Days four, five and six of the 21st Century Workbench class at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking found me too beat to blog. Building a workbench in six days is...

In a bar outside Philadelphia, Thomas Lie-Nielsen, John Economaki and I are having a drink and talking about the people who are getting rich selling tools. I’m on my second...

ODDS AND ENDS OF SPARE OFF CUTS. PLUS SOME PYOGRAPHY. MAX TIME TO MAKE 1 1/2 HOURS.

Learn how to cut square mortises using a drill press.     How to make zero-clearance inserts     More about Greene and Greene furniture     Learn how to...

If you use saws powered by meat and muscle, you need a pair of sawbenches. Both you and the saw work a lot better when your work rests on these...

In the November issue (#186) of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I review a set of Wainscot & Paneling (#00-510) router bits from Infinity Cutting Tools. (Check out the set here.) The...

Before After When setting up bench planes, the enemy is plane tracks – the ugly step created on a board when one (or both) of the corners of the tool’s...

Itsik makes all king of toys, but he putts a much of his artistic zeal in making planes and helicopters of different sizes. Some of them are made form ply...