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Andre Roubo’s 18th century five-volume masterwork on woodworking, “L’Art du Menuisier,” needs to be translated to English. The little snippets I’ve picked up here [...]

I’m passionate about cooking, but I don’t get excited about cooking equipment. I’ve got decent cookware, questionable Far East knives bought from an infomercial and (somehow) [...]

After shutting its doors in late 2007 because of a labor dispute, Auriou Toolworks is set to re-open its doors this month and start shipping a small range of rasps directly to consumers, [...]

Thanks to everyone who entered our Shortcut contest to win the restored Millers Falls 2A drill from WKTools.com. About 100 people entered the contest, and about one-third of those entries will [...]

There must be something in the water. During the last week I’ve gotten five messages from people asking me where I got the try square that is sometimes shown in step photos for Woodworking [...]

The new Stanley No. 4 smoothing plane. Stanley Works will release five premium-grade handplane models this year that are designed to compete with planes from Veritas and Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, [...]

  Every time I go to Atlanta or Las Vegas for one of the big woodworking shows, there’s always one tool that makes me think about selling my plasma in order to get it into my shop. [...]

It’s hard to imagine that someone today could come up with a better Forstner bit , they were first patented in 1874. But today we used a new Forstner from a German company called Horst [...]

In a move that will surely tighten the competition in the table saw market, SawStop announced plans to introduce a less expensive version of its cabinet saw that will use the same blade-stopping [...]

Veritas is just about ready to release two new skew rabbet planes, which cut rabbets both with and across the grain. These full-featured planes are fundamental tools in the shop of a hand-tool [...]

Planemaker Gary Blum introduced a new workbench design for sale here at the International Woodworking Fair. Well, it’s not really fair to call it new. The base design is a couple hundred [...]

I think I was in the DeWalt booth when I suddenly felt the tide turn. One of the company’s product managers was explaining the new guard on the DeWalt jobsite table saw. It was one of the [...]