Big Board Tips Learn 5 ways to flatten a wide board. Finishing How-To Learn more about finishing walnut. Machine Smarts Learn to master your mortiser. What’s...
Quick reminder: I’ll be in southwest Michigan this Saturday (June 4) giving demonstrations and generally mopping up the drool in my vicinity at the open house of tool collector John...
Television Cabinet Hide the electronics behind ingenious double-hinged doors by Dave Munkittrick I love my new 36-in. TV but my wife hates what the glass and plastic monolith does to...
For more than a decade I have been interested in combining metal office furniture (predominantly filing cabinets and metal hardware drawers) with wooden components to form new pieces. Often my...
As I posted late last week, we now offer a digital subscription to Popular Woodworking Magazine. Sales are already brisk (thank you!), and we’ve received a number of questions, too....
Rubberwood is the wood from the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis). It has always been used on a small scale, but has become much more common now, a relative [...]
File this one under: Tricks that everyone knows but me. Whenever I work against a fence on my drill press, I constantly huff and sweep the table clear of shavings....
Anything – a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g – that reduces the time I spend sharpening my tools makes me giddy. Care Bear giddy. Monchichi giddy. Making tools dull is more fun. A few years...
THESE I MAY HAVE IDEA FOR ??? WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THESE???? NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE???????????? AS YOU KNOW ME I CAN AN WILL MAKE USE OF THESE ???????????????? CAR...
A lot of you asked for it – and here it is – a digital subscription is now available to Popular Woodworking Magazine! Each issue will be in PDF format,...
The TS-2 Master Try Square is one of two tools that started Bridge City Tools (the other was the SA-2 Scratch Awl), and for our next issue, John Economaki is...
In my blog earlier this week on drilling holes for bench dogs and holdfasts I mentioned a 3/4”-diameter up-cut spiral bit we use in a plunge router to make perfect...