I finished up work on the base configuration of this old-style Roubo workbench last night for a photo shoot today. But before I tore apart the shop and moved all...
My psychological oddities include: A fear of being tackled by females in elf suits and enmity toward all birdhouses. Perhaps my hostility to birdhouses springs from my days as a...
The woodworkers who are restoring the White Water Shaker Village are making significant progress , just in time for the Woodworking in America tour of the village on Oct. 3....
I thought I had a hammer-collecting problem until I met Scotty Fulton. Fulton set me straight: 50 hammers is not much of a collection. Try 12,000 hammers , virtually all...
In the debate of round bench dogs vs. square bench dogs, I have tried to remain neutral. But after years of working on both, I have decided to cast my...
In my 13 years with this magazine, I’ve never written about the magazine itself. You’ve never had to hear about how we tweaked the fonts, leading and kerning to spiff...
If you ever decide to delve into traditional woodworking, you quickly learn that wedges are your friend. Build chairs? You need to wedge all the joints. Traditional doors? Wedge your...
If you’ve been trying to reach me during the last few weeks, I apologize. The answers to your questions are: 1. Almost any species of wood will do fine for...
You know that you’ve been building a Roubo workbench when you chop a 1-1/4″ wide, 4″-long and 3″-deep blind mortise and it’s comically easy. Today I’m getting [...]
