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This week I begin a long-awaited project: A Russian workbench. Nah, I’m just messing with you. Now that I have fully exorcised the bench-building demon, I can move onto other long-awaited [...]

The dominant style of workbench in the Western world is what we call the European form. It’s the bench that Ulmia made famous and the bench that built a million cabinets in the 20th [...]

I’ve got a weakness for shoulder planes. Though lots of people do great work without them, I find them useful for trimming the shoulders and cheeks of tenons, plus fine-tuning rabbets, [...]

Designing or purchasing a good workbench is one of the most vexing problems facing woodworkers. The correct combination of materials, overall dimensions and vises is the difference between a [...]

Building a workbench is a bit like childbirth. Some benches come into this world like my firstborn did, fighting the entire way and taking twice as long as expected , like the English workbench. [...]

Designing and building good workbenches has been a passion of mine for the last decade or so. I’ve spent years rooting around in old books and getting dusty in the shop while building [...]

Whenever I attempt to teach a bit of woodworking I say things that don’t come out quite right. Things like: “Sharpening is perhaps the most fundamental of hand skills.” Or: [...]

We test-drive the new loose-tenon joinery system from Festool

You can now download a free 3D eDrawing of the cover project from Issue No 7 (the Spring 2007 issue) by following the link below. By using a free program from SolidWorks, you can examine the [...]

Last year I got to spend a couple days in the tool collection of John Sindelar, an Edwardsburg, Mich., tool collector and professional woodworker. It’s one of the most unusual tool [...]

In the coming months, our publishing company will decide if it will launch Woodworking Magazine as a six-issues-per-year, subscription-based publication. To help us make this critical decision we [...]

When I first started working at Popular Woodworking magazine, we’d sometimes have summer interns help out, and they were almost always female and working on a staff that was (at the time) [...]