Jasmine Jewelry Box

Simple tools, techniques & joinery deliver elegant results. By Gary Rogowski Pages46-51 From the June 2011 issue #190 Buy this issue now It’s the stuff of arguments: Which tools in...

A trunk for my niece Part 3

The last stages of this fun job were to cut the plaque ellipse shape and install the plaque on the trunk. Notice that the middle letter ? received an exceptionally...

A trunk for my niece Part 2

After I laid out the letters' design, I started to establish a middle creek line on each of the letter's parts. To cut this creek you can use a marking...

HAPPY EASTER

WHY CHOCOLATE EASTER EGGS? WHY NOT WOODEN/TIMBER EGGS?WILL LAST LONGER??LATHE MAGIC….

I Know I’m Gonna Regret This…

This afternoon, Chris Schwarz sent the following e-mail to the other editors: “http://www.milwaukeetool.com/news/milwaukee-ink Megan, get on this right away. I sense a future husband for [...]

Is Nicholson the new Roubo?

With the exciting new publication of Nicholson’s 1850 text, I fully expect we will be hearing a great deal more about Nicholson, and very likely a great deal less about...

8 Woodworkers, 8 Blindfolds, 1 Question

Roy Underhill, caretaker of The Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, N.C., sent me this photograph today from his school. Curious, don’t you think? What is going on here? Eight blindfolded woodworkers...

‘Ole Blue Boy’

Apparently, the first thing one needs to do when they join the Popular Woodworking Magazine staff is build a workbench. I’m OK with that, as I’ve never really had an...