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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...

Today I’m abandoning a prototype design I’ve been working on this week between bouts of tending our gerund farm. I’d like to have a Viking funeral for this little end...

Yesterday morning I started getting serious with the Bridge City Jointmaker Pro that John Economaki loaned us for a month. I’m building a quick and dirty prototype of a Frank...

John Economaki from Bridge City Tools is in our shop today before he demonstrates his new Jointmaker Pro saw to about 60 of our readers. As we were setting up...

Lately I’ve been planing stuff that has been a lot nastier than your typical run-of-the-mill cherry, oak and walnut. First Senior Editor Glen D. Huey tried to torture me by...

What I dislike most about the Summer 2008 issue is the fact that I didn’t get to build the Sea Chest that Glen D. Huey constructed. I had designed the...

Anyone who builds furniture while in a wheelchair is up against serious challenges. Not only are the machines and workbenches too high off the floor, getting the wheelchair close enough...

Most of you know how much I like Andre Roubo’s “L’Art du Menuisier” , probably the best and most complete books on woodworking from the 18th century. Heck, I’ve even...

Last week I bought a toothing plane from a Midwestern tool collector. I’ve always wanted one of these tools, and this one is particularly nice. Toothing planes are lot like...

Todd Austman of Calgary, Alberta, won the miter plane from Philly Planes in our “Quote of the Year” contest for this little jewel: “I am always doing what I cannot...

The new Bridge City Tools Jointmaker Pro is probably the most innovative and controversial new hand tool introduced in the last decade. The Jointmaker’s sliding table floats over a Japanese...

When we started Woodworking Magazine, one of the things we definitely wanted to include as part of the fabric of the publication were quotations about the craft that made us...