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Let me say this first: You are welcome to put a holdfast hole anywhere you please. No one will think less of you. In fact, if you are questioned by your friends as to why you put a certain hole [...]

A JOB LOT OF SLEEPERS £300 .SIMPLE IDEAS ARE THE BEST.AND YOU CAN HAVE CUSHIONS CUSTOM MADE. THESE SELL FOR £125 .BASIC TOOLS NEEDED . AND THESE ARE UNIQUE . …

MADE FROM OFF CUTS OF RECLAIMED TIMBER . THESE CAN BE OILED/VARNISHED/POLISHED. IDEAS ARE UNLIMITED TO WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THEM . EASY TO SELL FOR A FEW POUNDS/DOLLARS .BASIC TOOLS NEEDED ONLY [...]

While we don’t yet have all the particulars nailed down for Woodworking in America 2013, we do know: When: October 18-20, 2013 Where: Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Ky., [...]

I spent much of Friday in the shop, tuning up machines in preparation for an upcoming magazine project. The thing I will be building is rather small, but with some involved details. I wanted the [...]

I’ve been turning for about seven years now and have completed hundreds of objects ranging from table legs to large bowls to tiny bottle stoppers. Yet I’d never undertaken a [...]

For the last three years I have been paring down my working tool set to the bare minimum by selling off or giving away many of the tools that I amassed while working at Popular Woodworking [...]

  In my last post I mentioned how I completed the piece and brought it to the gallery. The gallery owner looked at the teapot and seemed surprised, explaining that she [...]

I’m in the midst of trolling through the deep dark past of Christopher Schwarz’s blog, as I gather information for a forthcoming book (assuming we can convince marketing that anyone [...]

I’ve been bouncing all around the Internet reading the many posts that are helping to get the word out about “Get Woodworking Week” – an idea conceived of and promulgated by Tom [...]

My last entry focused on the fortuitous way I found the raw material and tracked the design process. This time I will show how I created the teapot. First, I glued together the [...]

Choose your own styles and techniques: simple, advanced, or somewhere in-between. By Graham Blackburn Pages 50-53 In furniture, the term “trestle” historically referred to a pair [...]