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...

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...

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...

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 &...