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If you own any books about the Shakers or their furniture, you probably have seen a small storage cabinet like this one hanging in the background behind the more celebrated pieces.

What hand and power tools does the serious beginner need? Here’s our best list.

Here’s our favorite time-waster this morning: Norm Abram and his shop constructed entirely from LEGOs.Duane Hess, a woodworker, New Yankee Workshop fan and a LEGO modeler for a gaming [...]

Several years back I was fitting some 1/4″-thick mullions and muntins into a door and needed to plane the little suckers to remove their sawmarks. Planing thin stock can be a real pain. [...]

The back page of the upcoming issue of Woodworking Magazine (which mails to subscribers at the end of November) focuses on wood structure. What’s the difference among ring-porous woods, [...]

One of the most powerful things about hand tools is that they allow you to work on small areas of a board with ease. Instead of running the whole board through an electric planer to remove a [...]

Reader Tim Williams writes: I have a number of old Stanley planes that I’ve spent a lot of hours cleaning and refurbishing. I’ve read multiple places about how when tuning up a plane, [...]

Almost every day I get an e-mail or a phone call that goes something like this: “I’m a beginner. I want to buy some handplanes. But I have no idea where to start or what to buy. [...]

If you ask me, the first backsaw you should buy should be a carcase saw. It’s handy for all manner of crosscuts when building furniture. But you never see reviews in woodworking magazines [...]

One of my favorite woodworking projects I saw in Germany: A hand-powered Ferris wheel at a Christmas street fair. Whenever I travel abroad, I always ask the locals about woodworking as a hobby. [...]

Normally when a book publishing company sends out a copy of its newest book, the marketing people will include a transcript of a short interview with the author that discusses the book. This is [...]

The Hand Tool Events put on by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks are a great place to pick up new skills, learn about hand tools and test drive a wide variety of serious ductile and bronze beauties. [...]