This clip of video art is fantastic! it is so well choreographed that I am sure you will replay it at least three times as I did. Instead of dancers, the makers of this video used [...]
OK, here’s your German lesson for the week, and yes, it does have to do with the Hand Tool Olympics at the upcoming Woodworking in America event being held in the greater Cincinnati area [...]
After most of the ledge length was shaped I began dealing with a broken sloped part of the ledge. Using a chisel I cut out a basin for a small piece of teak. I glued the piece [...]
It seems that the same arm rest from my previous posting (Skin patching) was possessed by some sort of a woodworking demon, otherwise I can't explain why it suffered from so many [...]
Roorkhee chairs are tough and lightweight – they have to be in order go to war or on safari. To make your chairs as durable and lightweight as possible, here are some details to consider as you [...]
Brian Zirkle of St. Louis, Mo., placed the winning bid in our Charity Book/DVD Auction. For $251.00 he’s getting a wonderful collection of Chris Schwarz’s books and DVDs, all signed [...]
Part of my responsibilities in my day job are to restore teak and mahogany furniture. I joke about it and say that my roles is almost like a plastic surgeon. Furniture that [...]
Heather Trosdahl’s article in the Dec. 2012 issue, “Parquetry Tabletop,” requires shop-sawn veneers for the best results. In case sawing one’s own veneer is a technique [...]
Q & A: Restoring a Blued Chisel Q: The first thing I did with my new grinder was to blue the edge of a chisel. Is there anything I can do to save it? A: Most woodworkers have faced…
Finding a French-style workbench with a twin-screw vise is somewhat uncommon. And so what furniture maker Nick Webb stumbled upon on the Mediterranean island of Gozo is even more unusual. The [...]
One of the pieces in my current show is called Chronicle of Consumption. It consists of a video clip and two still images that show the fate of a beautiful case of drawers that had [...]
We have iron planes and wooden planes. Iron vises and wooden ones. Iron clamps and wooden ones. So it shouldn’t come as a shock that you can have a wooden holdfast. But it does. Carpenter and [...]
