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When I built the Roubo-style workbench for the Fall 2005 issue, the idea was to make it as accessible and affordable as possible. I think we succeeded. The bench cost about $225 to build and took [...]

Securing large pieces of work to the front face of your workbench is always a challenge. A face vise can hold one corner of large work, but the other end is free to swing about. This can be [...]

We’re deep into producing issue five of Woodworking Magazine right now. We have cherry boards basking in the sun this afternoon and I’m trying to finish up some historical research on [...]

Question: I’ve been using sawhorses and an old door for a few years and curse every time I start a project that I need a real bench. So I’ve been mulling over my options for some time [...]

Some days it’s overwhelming to think about all the woodworking and toolmaking knowledge that’s been lost. Last weekend at the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association national meeting it [...]

I’ve just returned from the national meeting of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association a bit road-weary, a bit hung over and completely overwhelmed by what a cool experience the whole [...]

An hour before we photographed the cover with the Roubo-style workbench, I was still building it , putting the finishing touches on the leg vise to be exact. I had always meant to put a [...]

Thanks to my daughter’s fourth-grade class, I’ve discovered another good source of small-scale drawbore pins for cabinet work. This morning I had to give a small chat about my job at [...]

When you are making big mortises, such as those in the Roubo-style Workbench in Issue 4, it’s a good idea to bore out as much of the waste as possible. This isn’t exclusively a [...]

OK, I have two very good pieces of news on the topic of holdfasts. In our March 2005 issue we sang the praises of Alaskan blacksmith Phil Koontz. His holdfasts were the only ones that truly lived [...]

Amerock’s customer service department promptly responded to my question about its new Chinese-made hinges (to the company’s credit, they didn’t know the query was from a [...]

In the first issue of Woodworking Magazine I wrote a half-page article titled “A Better Hinge” that sang the praises of the Amerock non-mortise hinges, which I have used for many [...]