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During my first story on coping saws this week I lamented it was difficult to trace the saw’s genealogy. And I cussed the modern form. Thanks to some readers, I have some more leads on the [...]

My mailbox is now filled with more than 150 messages about the merger of Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine that we announced on the blog. I am trying to answer every message, but until [...]

I’m a mediocre guitar player. But because I’m a fair judge of craftsmanship, I have an immense respect for real-deal lutherie. Have you seen one of Jameel Abraham’s ouds in [...]

Starting with the April 2010 issue, we will merge Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine into one publication that features thicker and larger paper, a new design, and strong writing from a [...]

The coping saw is generally unloved, unheralded and under-appreciated. Yet as far as I’m concerned, I wouldn’t enjoy woodworking as much without one. When I started woodworking about [...]

There is great debate among the Saw Nerds (I’m a card-carrying member) about when the backsaw came into this world, kicking and screaming and whipping its lamb’s tongue to and fro. [...]

We’re having some blog problems right now. Posts and comments are disappearing. This is technical, not a conspiracy (at least not one that I’m in on). I apologize for the problem and [...]

I have been called a tool dweeb (and that’s by people who like me), but I take issue with that assessment. In truth, I have far more books than tools (unless you count every drill bit and [...]

My sister-in-law killed her college landlord with a voodoo doll, so don’t try tell me that curses don’t exist. The curse du jour is an innocent flat-panel door I’m building for [...]

Shooting the photo for the cover of a magazine is as unpredictable as my second girlfriend, Kym Harper. Sometimes it’s impossibly fast. You put the project down, take a photo of it and [...]

Every time I bend over in the shop, I feel like I’m being just a little disemboweled. By that, I means that all the important stuff , 6″ rule, pencil, tape measure, small square , [...]

After years of development, Lie-Nielsen Toolworks is planning on making a No. 51 chute-board plane that should be released in the first quarter of 2010, Thomas Lie-Nielsen says. Tool collectors [...]