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“Now let us drink to the success of our hopeless endeavor.”— Russian dissident toast My plan for the June 2011 cover project was a 17th-century “book press” from Samuel Pepys...

After cutting my 86th carcase dovetail in two days I was pretty much on auto-pilot and oblivious to external stimuli. How oblivious? Apparently I busted a knuckle and left this...

I don’t get to read much fiction anymore, but I do read old woodworking books almost every night (last night I finished the potboiler “Cabinet Construction” (1937) edited by the...

After a number of delays and revisions, Stanley has released its long-awaited line of 750 series of chisels for woodworking. One of the first sets arrived on my desk on Monday, and...

I’m just about the last hand-tool blogger/forum gadfly to write about the Knew Concepts fretsaws, which have recently made the evolutionary leap from the world of jewelers to that of...

Every week I get asked where to begin when trying to become a hand-tool woodworker. The snarky answer is, “I have no idea because I did it the wrong way.”...

… pitiable, wanting, shoddy and shabby. Well I guess she got the job. — Christopher Schwarz P.S. Paybacks stink. And thanks to Kari Hultman for the excellent pixel massage.

This week Megan Fitzpatrick, our managing editor, is in Washington, D.C., to allegedly visit her mother and fix stuff around her mom’s house. But this morning my boss, Steve Shanesy,...

When I first started working here at the magazine we actually had time to go out for lunch each week (we now eat at our desks), and one day after...

I’m just about to resaw my maple version of Roubo’s Folding Bookstand that’s based on Roy Underhill’s article, and I made a full-size pattern of the elevation of the project....

We are currently at work on our June 2011 issue, which we have dubbed “The Bookcase Issue,” and it is the first jab at steering the magazine’s content so that...

After making the down-and-dirty folding bookstand in a video last week, I decided to make another pair as a very late Christmas gift. I am not a good friend. These...