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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 [...]

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 that have loose saw nuts. They loosen up with use [...]

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 a special deal to its customers. [...]

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 from the [...]

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 back [...]

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 was sleeping under my desk [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 I’m well-versed in [...]

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 , two one-day [...]

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 guilty for not [...]

When I travel with some of my old-school workbenches, it looks a bit like a 19th-century British caravan to India. Since 2005, I’ve strapped my French Workbench into the bed of a tiny [...]