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Testing the ultimate crosscut saws. By Robert W. Lang Pages: 42-47 From the December 2008 Issue #173 Buy this issue now Thirty years ago, there weren’t many options for making wide crosscuts. The [...]

By Megan Fitzpatrick Page 40 From the December 2008 Issue #173 Buy this issue now Tiny Lithium-ion cordless screwdrivers are breeding like feral cats in the Popular Woodworking shop these days. [...]

By Glen D. Huey Page: 40 From the December 2008 Issue #173 Buy this issue now If you notice a substantial amount of burning as you rip or crosscut with your table saw, you have a problem. [...]

By Glen D. Huey Page: 38 From the December 2008 Issue #173 Buy this issue now Insert tooling has long been used on the industrial side of woodworking and is now making its way to home-based and [...]

By Glen D. Huey Page: 38 From the December 2008 Issue #173 Buy this issue now If you’re a serious woodworker, or a woodworker who sometimes needs to correct small errors somewhere in your shop, [...]

How novel: Rabbet planes that actually work well in hardwoods and in cutting across the grain. By Christopher Schwarz Page: 36 From the December 2008 Issue #173 Buy this issue now Rabbet planes [...]

UNC-TV has posted the shows from the new season of Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s Shop” so you can watch them on your computer – including the two episodes I appeared in. We taped the two [...]

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AS ITS VALENTINES DAY SOON.AND PEOPLE SPEND MILLIONS                              ON CARDS EACH YEAR.THIS IS MY CARD [...]

“Now let us drink to the success of our hopeless endeavor.”— Russian dissident toast My plan for the June 2011 cover project was a 17th-century “book press” from Samuel Pepys library – considered [...]

And If We Did, Would You Pass the Test? Whether or not the Consumer Product Safety Commission should mandate the inclusion of “flesh-detecting technology” in new table saws has generated much [...]

After cutting my 86th carcase dovetail in two days I was pretty much on auto-pilot and oblivious to external stimuli. How oblivious? Apparently I busted a knuckle and left this nice smear on my [...]