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If you’ve ever met Dave Jeske at Blue Spruce Toolworks, then you don’t have to read the next sentence. You already know he is one of the nicest, most honest and talented toolmakers [...]

The February 2011 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is off to the printer. And I can safely say that it contains one of my three favorite articles we’ve published since I started here [...]

Tomorrow, Clark & Williams, which has been in business since 1996, will relaunch as a newly incorporated business called Old Street Tool, with Larry Williams and Don McConnell as the owners [...]

Several people have asked if our historical reprint of “Elementary Turning for Use in Manual Training Classes” will include the original photos or drawings. Or if it will be a messy [...]

Despite the fact that I stink at turning, I still keep at it. Sharpening the tools is no problem. And I can make basic shapes. What vexes me is combining the shapes to create the spindles I want [...]

This year our store, ShopWoodworking.com, added hundreds of new books, plans and DVDs. There are so many new products, in fact, that we haven’t been able to get a look at some of them in [...]

My first workshop was the 6′ x 10′ back porch of our Victorian home in Lexington, Ky. The floor sloped dramatically thanks to termites, and the the whole place reeked of rotting [...]

My rusty high school French has been getting a workout this week. I’m slowly consuming bits and pieces of the book “Les Rabots” by Pierre Bouillot and Xavier Chatellard. [...]

Since Ron Herman’s excellent story on miter boxes appeared in the November 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, the price of these tools has gone through the roof, according to some [...]

During the Woodworking in America conference, several readers brought along some boards of nasty wood for me to try to tame during my lecture on scraper planes. I was able to plane or scrape all [...]

I like chamfers as much as I like grits. And making stop-chamfers with a little lamb’s tongue detail at the end is like adding crispy pork belly and goat cheese to my grits. As a result of [...]

Those of you who follow my personal woodworking blog know that I have been selling off a lot of my excess tools and upgrading my shop at home. Since August, I’ve sold more than 100 tools [...]