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If you aren’t yet completely saturated with information on workbenches, then get comfortable and read on. Craig Stevens at the Woodworkers Resource has just released an hour-long interview [...]

If you aren’t yet completely saturated with information on workbenches, then get comfortable and read on. Craig Stevens at the Woodworkers Resource has just released an hour-long interview [...]

I have a “saw problem.” There, I said it. And because I have too many saws in my shop at home and at work, I also have too many saws...

Memory is a funny thing, especially in my family. But I swear that during my last days as a college undergrad there was a car dealership in Chicago that offered...

Reader Michael Holcomb writes: I’m writing to ask your advice about an old Pennsylvania cabinet maker’s workbench I was lucky enough to buy a couple of years ago. It came...

Reader John Griffin-Wiesner writes: Just got the new Popular Woodworking issue yesterday (February 2008). Another fine issue! I am confounded by the Shaker wood box. How are the front and...

The last time I completely lost my composure, a piece of office equipment almost died. This was in 1995, when I was running a start-up newspaper in Frankfort, Ky., and...

Probably the silliest thing about woodworking journalism is the “in a weekend” project that we promise readers on the cover of the magazine: “Build a John Goddard Highboy With Four...

On Friday, Jan. 11, we will make an important announcement in our newsletter about our future  plans for subscriptions to Woodworking Magazine. And shortly after that, I’ll also post the...

Vintage wooden-bodied miter planes are fairly rare birds (at least in the Midwest), so I was quite eager to try a new one made by Philip Edwards in England. While...

Thanks to the maturing of my two daughters (and the waning of the “Days of Dark Diapers”), I’ve decided to teach two more rounds of handsawing classes in 2008 ,...

Mark L. Wells writes: I’ve read your book and the extra chapterr.  Both are great. You provide so much more detail than anything else I’ve read, and I almost feel...