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When I first learned about the so-called Golden Mean or Golden Section I was enthralled by the concept. I actually remember the moment. I was in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., [...]

The newest DVD from Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, “Unlocking the Secrets of Traditional Design,” is the most information-packed, lucid and mind-expanding 68 minutes of woodworking footage [...]

Do you like stories about gladiators? How about stories about idiot woodworking editors? This week I was finishing up work on the joined Chinese stool for the cover of the Autumn 2009 issue of [...]

“The two great truths in the world are the Bible and Grecian architecture.”– Nicholas Biddle (1786 , 1844), president of the Second Bank of the United States Among some [...]

With every project there is always some tool that deserves an Academy Award-style acceptance speech. “In building this chest of drawers I’d like to thank my mom for birthing me, Hanes [...]

When you pick up an old plane in an antique store or swap meet it is sending off clues. This is (I’m told) a bit like speed dating , your job is to weed out the twitchy, drooling, [...]

Traditional cut nails can be made from pretty soft steel, especially the useful cut headless brads. As a result, you have to be careful when installing them. Here are some of the things that can [...]

After being in and out of print during the last several years, David Finck’s “Making & Mastering Wood Planes” is finally available for sale again directly from the author. [...]

When making through-mortises by hand, one of the occasional problems is that you get a little mallet happy, you drive the mortise chisel a little too deep and you blow out a piece of grain on the [...]

One of my hobbies is chairmaking. That statement might sound kinda dumb. After all, I’m a long-time woodworker and making wooden chairs is woodworking. No? No. Making stick chairs uses [...]

You can now read our account of our visit to White Water Shaker Village on our web site in full. I’ll warn you, however, that words and photos do not describe what this place is like. [...]

In the tool world there is an ugly (and erroneous) slur. When one company copies the tool of another company, they call it a “cheap Chinese copy.” Never mind that the copy was almost [...]