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If you’ve ever struggled with sharpening a card scraper or using your handplanes while building furniture, there are two new DVDs on these topics you should find useful. “Hand Scrapers:...

Whenever I go to one of the big woodworking shows (such as the International Woodworking Fair), I always like to see the big CNC machines where the operators put a...

For years I used my Stanley 71 router plane in blissful ignorance. I was happy that it was easy to adjust and maneuver. But in the last couple years my...

Last summer I spent a week in Columbus, Ohio, with my best friend from high school. He was there for a conference. I was there to write the text for...

During the last several months I’ve gotten several e-mails, phone calls and comments from people who aren’t readers. Instead these communiquÃ?©s are from the wives of our readers, [...]

Our corporate web site experts encourage us to write as briefly as possible when speaking to an Internet audience. So with that in mind, here is my review of David...

John Sindelar stands in front of a door at the back of his thriving cabinet and millwork shop in Edwardsburg, Mich. The door opens into blackness and Sindelar turns around...

Editor’s note: Every few days I’m asked for a bibliography of the essential books for a woodworker who is interested in working with hand tools. I often dash off a...

After collecting tens of thousands of tools, cabinetmaker John Sindelar is ready to show them off in a museum.

As a child, nothing put me to sleep faster than one of my father’s slideshows. Sure, they were of his fascinating time in Vietnam, but there’s something about a couch,...

Michael A. Whittemore Sr. of Signal Mountain, Tenn., is the lucky winner of the Powermatic PM2000 cabinet saw from our online contest. Whittemore said he was “drooling over his laptop”...

This weekend I got a chance to show off the Holtzapffel workbench at the Sindelar Tool Meet, talk to a bunch of tool collectors and buy some tools I’ve been...