Tested: The Benchcrafted Wagon Vise
These last couple weeks I’ve gotten to break in my new Benchcrafted wagon vise while building a dry sink for the next issue of Woodworking Magazine. The dry sink is enormous (it looked so [...]
Knot a Problem
On Halloween night in 1993 I went to the lumberyard in search of wood to build a sitting bench for our kitchen in Lexington, Ky. Like any good woodworker, I sorted through the entire pile of 1 x [...]
The Sawbench: A Silent Shop Slave
I really need to start keeping a list of all the things I use my sawbenches for. Sure, I saw stuff on them. And I stand on them while go-go dancing in the shop to amuse visitors. Those things are [...]
Taming the Wild Pine
When I first got serious about woodworking after college, I remember reading a dire warning in a woodworking book about working with pine: “If you work with pine, be sure to purchase your [...]
Trouble Outside the Norm
Cabinetry is made of chunks of wood that are fairly standard in size. Most of your parts are going to be shorter than 48″ long. It’s rare that individual planks will be wider than [...]
Ron Brese: From Sheet Metal to Sweet Metal
Meet planemaker Ron Brese, a diehard furniture builder who has started making infill handplanes using a unique construction method that lowers the lofty cost of these thoroughbred tools.
Now Available: 'The Workbench' DVD
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks has just released a DVD that is based on the theories, research and building that I did for the book “Workbenches: From Design & Theory to Construction & [...]
‘When Beetles Attack’ Vol. I
Our shop is thick with the sweet odor of Eastern white pine this week as I’m milling about 70 board feet of the stuff for the next issue of Woodworking Magazine. The smell (Megan [...]
Blue Tape Brings on the Silence of the Schwarz
Anyone who works with me in the shop knows that I’m a bit of a bully when it comes to the stereo. I’ll get to the office early, plug my iPod into the crap-tacular shop stereo (which [...]
Benchcrafted Vise Hardware Now on the Roubo
When I first built my Roubo-style workbench, I wanted to see if I could work without an end vise. So for the first year or so I used my planing stop, holdfasts, battens and geometry to steady my [...]
First Photos of the New Stanley Planes
Though the new Stanley premium handplanes won’t hit stores for a month or more, the company has released these photos of the planes that are going to be used on some packaging. These photos [...]
My Soon-to-be-nice Wagon Vise
This week my pesky highly rewarding day job has been interfering with the installation of my new Benchcrafted wagon vise. Our February 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking is riddled with typos (or [...]
