Whenever I demonstrate handsawing, someone usually asks this question: “Should you saw right on the knife line or next to your line?” I answer: “It depends. Usually I split the...
Sometimes with woodworking, what seems crazy one day can be quite sensible the next. I distinctly remember reading in the late 1990s a manuscript from an author who was building...
The most stressful glue-up of my life was assembling my tool chest in 1998. The main carcase had 120 mating surfaces that had to be glued. Foolishly, I chose yellow...
When you’re a professional writer, people tend to give you cranky manual typewriters as gifts. They don’t expect you to use them, per se. But they do expect you to...
Someday, someone is going to invent a battery-powered scratch awl. I know this is true because I have seen toolmakers go to ridiculous extremes to sell us something new. A...
Like most woodworkers, I’ve been to my fair share of woodworking shows. I’ve bought the $5 router bits that fell off a truck. I’ve been wowed by the Sham Wow....
Thanks to a mix-up between our company and our printer, the Spring 2009 issue of Woodworking Magazine has yet to mail to U.S. subscribers. (In an odd twist of fate,...
Last week Roy Underhill took me to the back room of his new school in Pittsboro, N.C. “Is this the office?” I asked. “No,” Roy said with a wicked grin....
Some day I expect one of my little girls to tell a school counselor (between sobs): “Daddy has a hammer problem.” My, ahem, problem started innocently enough years ago. I...
Our new CD containing all four issues of Woodworking Magazine from 2008 is now in stock in our store for $19.99 plus shipping. All of our electronic magazines are in...
Robert Giovannetti of the Cherry Creek Woodworks blog (the guy with the Lie-Nielsen tattoo and a Schwarz-sized bench fetish) has done a nice interview with Ron Hock of Hock Tools....
In the comments for “One Schwarzpower. Fail.” Chris C. mentioned Roy Underhill’s “Lathe from a Loft” article, which we ran in the October 2000 issue of Popular [...]
