My Chisel Handles are Older Than Yours
Exotic woods don’t blow my skirt/kilt/skort up much. In small doses they can look beautiful, but for the most part I find them oily, difficult to work and far too...
What is an Oilstone?
The language surrounding so called oilstones is very misleading. First off, there’s no such thing as an “oilstone.” Long ago, these abrasive stones were simply called whetstones. “Whetting” was the...
Congratulations to our Skill-Building Collection Sweepstakes Winner
Congrats go out to Pat Swagger of Swannanoa, N.C., who won our Popular Woodworking Skill-Building Collection Sweepstakes. She won all of this stuff: Exercises in Wood-Working Book and DVD Collection...
Restoring an old cabinet part 2: Clamping in a complicated situation
Once we recognized the structural problems, we knew what we should do: put glue in the loose joints and pull the parts back together. The question was how to do it in...
Restoring an old cabinet part 1: Loose joints
Sharon is a reader of my Hebrew woodworking blog (http://woodworkinginisrael.blogspot.com/). A month ago he decided to restore a nice looking cabinet that he owned. He wanted [...]
Round-drawer Spring Box
What’s better than a hand-made box from your shop? How about a box that is a puzzle, that stores special items and even has a secret compartment. Done. It’s the...
CPSC Table Saw Rules: Emotion vs. Numbers
The Consumer Product Safety Commission will be accepting public comments on a proposed rule to improve table saw safety. Comments will not be accepted by e-mail, but will be accepted...
‘Furniture in the Southern Style’ now Available for Pre-order
“Furniture in the Southern Style: 27 Shop Drawings of Furniture from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts,” by Robert W. Lang and Glen D. Huey (with an introduction from...
Understanding Wood, Reassemble the Log
Chances are you’ve read comments by famous (and not-so-famous) woodworkers regarding their relationship to the materials with which they work. George Nakashima described the [...]
Outreach for David Charlesworth
As many of you know, David Charlesworth had to drop out of his classes at Woodworking in America 2011 after he was hospitalized in Munich, Germany, for pneumonia. Click on...
Precise Hand-Cut Dovetails
Precise Hand-Cut Dovetails A new approach to half-blind dovetails guarantees a precision fit. By Tom Caspar Purchase the complete version of this woodworking technique story from AWBookstore.com. [...]
Floating Shelves
Floating Shelves Torsion-box construction creates sag-proof shelves that "defy" gravity. By Tim Johnson Some time ago, an Ace Hardware ad in American Woodworker sparked a surprising [...]
