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This fall, our magazine is sponsoring the first-ever weekend conference devoted to hand tools and learning to use them. We’re calling it the Woodworking in America conference, and [...]

For me, finger joints have always been the nerdy, square cousin to the dovetail. Finger joints are immensely strong when glued properly. But they are usually used by beginning woodworkers in [...]

Managing Editor Megan Fitzpatrick grabbed our magazine’s digital camera and told Marc “The Wood Whisperer” Spagnuolo to hold still for a photograph. “I need to take a [...]

About a decade ago, my boss Steve Shanesy told me something about design that knocked me flat. When he was a struggling custom furniture maker, he took some time off to do something that few [...]

Editor’s note: Because it’s “Workbench Week Internazionale” I decided to tie up a loose end from my book: “Workbenches: from Blah, blah blah to Yadda yadda [...]

Matt Vanderlist has just posted a podcast of a conversation he and I had last week. I hesitate to call it an interview because it sounds a lot like us just goofing around and joking about [...]

If you were charmed by Harrelson Stanley’s Japanese workbench, then here is another variant for you that was built by Russ Merz of Cincinnati, Ohio. Merz built this bench about seven years [...]

Woodworker James Oliver has built a massive workbench with French lines (tree trunk legs), English-style workholding (a twin-screw face vise) and some modern practicality (a quick-release vise in [...]

Many readers were interested in Bill Liebold’s sliding leg vise, which he installed on his Roubo-meets-Dominy-style workbench (I’m just going to call this form the “Bill [...]

Now you can download six free SketchUp drawings for projects published in Woodworking Magazine during the last four years. These files work with Google’s free drafting program, SketchUp, [...]

Some of my favorite tools came from the hands of Kevin Drake, the founder of Glen-Drake Toolworks in Ft. Bragg, Calif. Anyone who has been in our shop for more than 30 seconds knows my affection [...]

As I was unpacking my tools for the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event in Chicago this weekend, John Economaki from Bridge City Tools stepped up to my workbench with an astonishing piece of wood. It was [...]