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If you own a 14″ band saw, then you know that you have a conundrum on your hands when you set it up.You could leave it stock, which would allow you to cut material up to 6″ thick. Or [...]

New cutterheads with "insert tooling" will be available for portables.

I’ve spent a good deal of energy investigating through-tenons. When I started collecting Arts & Crafts furniture in 1990, I quickly became attuned to spotting the joint in pieces for my [...]

The revival of the Arts & Crafts Movement isn’t just in the furniture store. Woodworkers of all levels of experience have named it one of their favorite styles to build in their [...]

DeWalt enters the tracksaw market with both corded and cordless plunge saws.

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks continues to turn back the clock (a good thing in the world of hand-tool woodworking). The Warren, Maine, manufacturer plans to offer a version of the 18th-century [...]

Whenever John Economaki of Bridge City Tools teaches classes about furniture design, he always asks his students a question that seems to have no good answer. The question goes something like [...]

Type up your best shop trick, tip or shortcut this week and you could win a restored Millers Falls 2A hand drill (which sells for more than $100) and get published in our “Shortcuts” [...]

This weekend we went to a little street fair in downtown Cincinnati to see some art, eat some Belgian waffles and , unbeknownst to us , consider the question of raw material selection in building [...]

For those of us who buy old tools, one of the fantasies involves time travel. Wouldn’t it be cool to walk into a hardware store in the late 19th century and buy a new Stanley Bed Rock plane [...]

The next issue of Popular Woodworking will be heading into mailboxes in the next two weeks, so we thought we’d give you a quick look at what you can expect inside. 21st-Century Workbench: [...]

Veritas has just released its much-awaited Side Rabbet Plane (at a special introductory price) and Veritas was generous enough to permit me to test-drive it here in our workshop. Though I still [...]