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Here’s how I made the pair of urns in last week’s post. Step 1: Choose your material My client wanted to use maple for one of the urns because she’s from Canada. She also liked [...]

Like a movie star, oak possesses natural good looks. Unlike a movie star, however, oak is easy to work with—even during finishing. Oak’s distinctive grain pattern (see photo below) is what people [...]

Last summer while visiting family in Cincinnati I paid a visit … no, not to the dentist, but rather to the Popular Woodworking offices to shoot a short video on the first stages of initiating and [...]

I feel so lucky to be part of the team putting out Nancy Hiller’s new book English Arts & Crafts Furniture: Projects & Techniques for the Modern Maker. The physical copy of the book [...]

If you’re reading this, then you already know: We’ve launched our new website and rebrand of Popular Woodworking. The biggest changes are on the backend of the website. Our technology was getting [...]

Voting for the 2018 Reader’s Choice Award is now open. You have until June 24 to get your votes in, so make sure you do. We’ve really enjoyed seeing all of the great work come into [...]

We’ve all dented some important part of a project and hand to remove the dent with heat and steam. It’s a routine and and annoying fix. But what if we could use the same process to make our [...]

We’ve officially wrapped the 34 Days of Dad contest and I have a list of daily winners for you! All of our winners have already been notified. Thanks for participating! – David Lyell Round [...]

Designing a piece of furniture with multiple spindles – or even working with someone else’s plan – can be tricky. Drawings will tell you one thing; your eye will tell you another. And relying on [...]

John Economaki recently detailed his decision to sell Bridge City Tool Works to Harvey Industries. Harvey Industries already licenses and distributes some tools BCTW internationally, so when John [...]

Recently one of the leg vises in my shop cracked. The vise chop snapped and the garter on the wooden screw gave way. While I could repair the damage, I decided to replace the entire mechanism [...]

When you know how to build furniture, you sometimes find yourself commissioned to make a piece that’s a little out of the ordinary. That’s where I am now. Among my current jobs is a pair of urns [...]