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About 10 years ago I was at The Hardware Show in Chicago visiting manufacturer’s booths to see what new stuff they had coming out for Christmas. Some of these tools...

I can be a bit obsessive-compulsive at times. And woodworking sure doesn’t help my malady. My family would be much better off if I’d just lick a few light switches...

Though I don’t talk much about it here on the blog, one of my long-standing obsessions (aside from my “goat” problem) is with chairmaking. I’ve taken a few classes, built...

Wiktor Kuc and I have an unusual relationship. I’ve never met the man, but I send him articles about tools for his web site, WKFineTools.com. And occasionally, out of the...

I’ve used the “ticking stick” method to fit countertops into odd spaces in a home, but I’ve never used it in the workshop. But then Indiana carpenter Carl Bilderback showed...

No one told me that setting up and using a scraper plane was a pain in the butt, so I didn’t think I had done anything special when I got...

After last weekend’s orgy of tools, woodworking and back-breaking workbench moving at Woodworking in America, I decided to take a break today and buy some tools and old woodworking books...

Right before “Woodworking in America” turned into “Dead Tired in Covington,” I finished this square for the December 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The square [...]

The only awful grade I earned in high school was in my second year of French class. Despite my best efforts, I could only eek out a B- during the...

At Woodworking in America, the question I was asked most often was, “Did you finish the bench?” The answer? “Yes , sort of.” On Thursday morning last week, Glen Huey...

Though I attended our 2010 Woodworking in America conference last weekend, I didn’t really see it. Except for a short 30-minute visit to the Marketplace floor on Saturday, I spent...

What are you doing next weekend? Wanna build a sawbench and become famous? We are shooting a DVD on Oct. 16 and 17 on building a sawbench entirely by hand...