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Stamped vs. Extruded vs. Cast hinges • Inexpensive hinges are usually stamped out of thin steel or brass plates. • Extruded hinges are molten metal forced into a die under...

  Nailer Blowout Q: I am building an entertainment center with a solid-oak face frame, and an MDF-core plywood and oak veneer carcass. When I was nailing the face frame...

After many months of waiting and watching them work, the other editors finally turned me loose in the shop last week to tackle my first-ever woodworking project: a simple bookshelf....

 THESE PLUS OFF CUTS OF CARPETS AND SOME STRING AND SPRAY GLUE … YOU TOO CAN  MAKE YOUR CAT HAPPY WITH A CAT SCRATCH POST ..  WITH THE STRING ITS...

The October 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is now available in our store (in both print and digital versions). Inside (along with many other techniques, tools and projects) you’ll...

How To Buy Streaming video — Available at ShopClass.PopularWoodworking.com DVD — Order now on ShopWoodworking.com Learn more about all Roy Underhill episodes here. Episode Guide [...]

In this one minute video you can see how I find materials, how I design, and the building of a new piece. The piece that I built was made from glass that...

I am the last person in the world who should teach wood turning. I stink at it. I’m slow. I don’t do it enough to become proficient at it. But...

This weekend I finished work on a traveling version of my “Anarchist’s Tool Chest” that will fit in my hatchback and will carry (almost) a full set of tools. The...

I’m just back from a few days at the 2012 International Woodworking Fair at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta. If you’ve never been, it’s a huge show with...

At this year’s Woodworking in America conferences, I’ll be talking about and demonstrating how to make Arts & Crafts period furniture. It’s a popular style among [...]

 WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THESE ?????? THESES ARE NO GOOD TO YOU UNLESS YOU HAVE A VCR ? OR A BETAMAX?  THESE ARE THROWN AWAY NOW WORLD WIDE ????...