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I notice that in The Patternmaker you have been publishing some notices in regards to a new vise for use in the pattern shop, and I send you a sketch showing a vise which used to be quite common [...]

I haven’t had the muscle to get my daughter Katherine’s workbench into the shop yet. But she still insists on using it just about every day. Here is the scene Wednesday after school. [...]

If you use your workbench for wood alone, you are unusual. My workbenches get used for all sorts of things, from wrapping presents to cracking walnuts. Opening stubborn jars of peanut butter to [...]

Here’s a piece of curious woodworking equipment spotted by Corey Wilcox of Richfield, Wisc. Corey spotted this vise in an antique shop in Silverton, Colo., in June and took some photos and [...]

Jeff Burks of CarpentryArchive.org is a patent-searching madman. And his insanity is your gain. He’s been assembling patents on coping saws, Buhle saws, bow saws and their blades and [...]

I have four bookcases filled with woodworking books in my office at home, another two bookcases in my office at work and boxes and boxes of them in the basement. And the list of the woodworking [...]

We just received our copies of “Spons on Carpentry & Joinery,” a 274-page reprint of an important 19th-century woodworking book. My vintage copy of Spons has always been one of [...]

I’ve never had a drug dealer, but I’m starting to know what it might feel like. Lately, woodworker and tool collector Carl Bilderback has been dangling some interesting tools before [...]

Usually I keep my pretty pink panties – how ever did you know? –  completely un-wadded, un-bunched and lying smoothly across my muppet-like hiney. I hope you’re not eating lunch right [...]

This morning has been frustrating. I’ve been scouring the shop for my bradawl, which I’ve owned for ages, but it’s just plain gone. And earlier this fall, one of our students [...]

In May, Senior Editor Glen D. Huey and I went to visit Kent Adkins’s new shop in St. Louis. Kent, an avid woodworker and surgical urologist, has spent the last few years building a custom [...]

If you ordered the book “Elementary Turning” from ShopWoodworking.com, it will be slightly delayed. While we thought the book would be on its way to you today, it’s going to be [...]