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A sharp, balanced and well-set handsaw is the difference between avoiding handsawing and looking for excuses to pick up the tool. While it is noble to resuscitate vintage saws and put them back [...]

We’ve had two crippling power outages in our office during the last three weeks. First the computer screen flickers. Then your left hand twitches to hit the keys to save your work. Then the [...]

Though my 12-volt cordless drill is always close at hand, I keep my brace and bit just as close. My brace and my augers allow me to drill deep holes in stout stock that my cordless drill [...]

  From the February 2007 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine.   I was on our local swim team as a child, and I was an embarrassment to my pool, my parents and mammals in general. [...]

With so many excellent hand tools on the market, it’s hard to find the space in the magazine to take the mediocre ones to task as much as I’d like. During the last six months [...]

An excerpt from the Spring 2007 issue of Woodworking Magazine, available on the newsstands now. My boss, Steve Shanesy, held up a dial caliper to make his point about precision woodworking. [...]

Last year Lie-Nielsen Toolworks held a different kind of woodworking show outside Boston. Instead of being held in a big convention hall, this show was more personal. In addition to Lie-Nielsen [...]

I’ve looked at a lot of old workbenches, and I’ve never seen many that exhibit signs of being flattened. I always look at toolmarks on the benches and what I typically find are [...]

Moulding planes are some of the coolest planes in a toolkit. Each one is like a modern router, but without the dust, the roaring universal motor and a bit spinning at 20,000 rpm. Like all hand [...]

The first thing to understand is that there are two kinds of motors that power almost all of the machinery in a home workshop: induction motors and universal motors.

After a recent hardware show, we became impressed with polyurethane glues.

Beginning woodworkers have it bad when it comes to buying their first hand tools.