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Good news: One of the best books on making chairs is now back in print and available at a reasonable price. “The Chairmaker’s Workshop” by Drew Langsner has been selling for [...]

My job lets me see a lot of cool woodshops, but even I’m jealous of an amazing journey that’s going on right now by British woodworker Stuart Page. Page recently graduated from a [...]

“There is something about the outside of a horse…that is good for the inside of a man.”, Attributed to Winston Churchill Whenever I start on a project, the most curious part is [...]

My first fillister plane was so pathetic it’s a wonder I’m not the poster boy for DeWalt routers. But then, I don’t look so good in yellow. Mom says I’m a winter. Abut a [...]

For those of you who prefer the digital version of Woodworking Magazine, we’ve just added Issue 10 to our store. It’s $6 and can be downloaded immediately by clicking here. Issue 10 , [...]

I always liked the look of my yellow pine Roubo-style workbench. That is, until last week. That’s when I got a look at Jameel Abraham‘s version of a Roubo workbench in ash, which puts [...]

It’s funny how the most exquisite things in life come from the simplest surroundings. It’s Thursday night in a small scratch of a town called Cornelius about 40 miles out from [...]

Last night I pursued one of our naughty cats into my oldest daughter’s closet, where I saw something that was just shocking. It was a …¦ well, it’s difficult to describe. Imagine a [...]

One of the magazine issues on our 2000-2007 CD was damaged during our efforts to squeeze it smaller, and the text looks garbled or missing when you try to read it. So we’re going to provide [...]

When it comes to dovetailing, I’ve never really had a dog in the fight between dovetailers who cut the pins first and those who cut the tails first. I was first taught to cut my tails [...]

Good books on hand work are hard to find, and after I recommended Robert Wearing’s “The Essential Woodworker” in 2007, copies became difficult to find at a reasonable price. I [...]

One of the best recommendations I’ve ever received in the world of hand tools came from a power-tool user who has 660-volt three-phase pumping through his veins. It’s 1996, and [...]