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A few pictures of some older tables I've made.     Mainly a Shaker design, just simple tables.     This one has been in a grandkid's room for [...]

AS CHRISTMAS IS OVER .WHY NOT MAKE THIS A PS3  GAMES RACK. TO HOLD ALL YOUR PS3 GAMES YOU GOT FROM SANTA. ALL MADE FROM PALLET TIMBER.ALL JOINTS ARE HOUSED. THIS HAS BEEN OILED WITH RAW [...]

This morning has been frustrating. I’ve been scouring the shop for my bradawl, which I’ve owned for ages, but it’s just plain gone. And earlier this fall, one of our students [...]

Carving the chair's crest rail was fun, and I think that adding the scroll detail improved it. The next step was to glue the parts together. In some cases, where parts were not disconnected [...]

In May, Senior Editor Glen D. Huey and I went to visit Kent Adkins’s new shop in St. Louis. Kent, an avid woodworker and surgical urologist, has spent the last few years building a custom [...]

If you ordered the book “Elementary Turning” from ShopWoodworking.com, it will be slightly delayed. While we thought the book would be on its way to you today, it’s going to be [...]

Clenching a nail – sometimes spelled “clinching” – is an essential traditional woodworking skill. But until you are clenching like a pro, there are some baby steps you can take. In [...]

In the past, I’ve posted blog entries and video on new products that are about to hit the stores. More than once, I’ve had to answer email about why those products are not yet out [...]

Once I finished stripping the old finish, I started planning the necessary repairs and alterations. I had to make two new spindles.  To compensate for the missing ones, I had to re-glue a [...]

I read a column about “professional blogging” the other day that mentioned a blog is the one place in journalism where it’s accepted practice to start with an anecdote about [...]

I dislike using other people’s tools when I travel. And I dislike it when all my tools fall tips-first into the concrete. Oh, and I also dislike all of the tool rolls I’ve [...]

Earlier this morning, I added the SketchUp models of projects in the February issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine to our 3d Warehouse collection. We do this every issue, and no other [...]