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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 sheet of plywood in at one end [...]

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 affection for the No. 71 has been shaken, [...]

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 my story on building an 18th-century walnut [...]

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 Charlesworth‘s new book, [...]

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 for a moment before [...]

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 list of books that [...]

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, a darkened room [...]

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 [...]

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 coveting for too long. But the [...]

“It will be necessary that I teach them how to choose their tools that are made by Smiths, that they may use them more with ease and delight, and make both quicker and neater Work with [...]