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After working with woodworkers all over the world for short periods of time and (in some cases) many years, I can say these four words that might make your woodworking...

  The Maslow $500 CNC kit No doubt about it, the Maslow CNC is unique. Let’s start with the detail that got your attention. Yes, the price of the Maslow...

I was teaching a hands-on finishing class, including spraying, a while back when a student brought me a spray gun he had bought a year before from another teacher who...

It will be among my enduring regrets that I didn’t arrange things to tag along on our recent visit to  Wendell Castle’s home and studio. The video team, along with...

The structure and design of our waterfall coffee table was really simple, with only one truly original element – the front turned leg. The other leg as well as the...

As you’d expect, Nick Offerman’s latest book, “Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop,” is funny and inspiring – and that is key in attracting new [...]

I’m bouncing off of Chris Schwarz’s August 25 blog post where he describes how myths can get started. I’ll leave you to read what he says, but basically Chris realized that...

There are lots of tests for when your liquid hide glue has gone bad – the most common one that I know of is to put some glue between your...

This slender table maximizes minimal space. by Rodney Wilson My family recently left our sprawling farmhouse for a compact ranch. We left our farmhouse-sized stuff too, and now we need...

How I use a CNC: Part Two In the previous post, I gave an overall explanation of the process that I use to make furniture parts with a combination of various power...

Really? There. I fixed it. A slightly chunky guy in a trucker hat is far more realistic in this scenario. — Megan Fitzpatrick @1snugthejoiner  

I have an affinity for the circular saw. Perhaps it comes from building the back deck at my parents’ house with my father when I was a kid (my earliest memory...