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Almost every week I get a message from a woodworker who is terrified that we are the last generation of people who will build furniture in our home workshops. I’m not nearly as apocalyptic, but I [...]

I’ve had the title “editor” at this magazine for about five or six years now, and I’ve found that it is mostly a toothless position. I don’t really control when your [...]

Forgive the dearth of sparkling prose in what you’re about to read; I’m worn out. It’s been a mad rush to get this bench done in time for Woodworking in America, and both Chris [...]

Gosh , nothing more exciting on a Saturday morning than one’s first hand-cut through-mortise. In 2″-thick hard maple. On a critical piece. I came in today to install as much as [...]

I’ve always admired Garrett Hack’s furniture, especially after I examined a piece in detail that a friend of mine owns. Some furniture looks good in photographs. Some looks good in [...]

Plate 11 from A.J. Roubo’s “L’Art du Menuisier” is one of my favorite woodworking documents. The workbench shown there has inspired many of my own designs, but [...]

If you are coming to Woodworking in America next week, you probably are going to eat something at some time during your trip here. If you’d just like to eat junk in or near your hotel, [...]

With Woodworking in America breathing down our necks (we’re beginning to count it down in hours instead of days), we’re trying to get a workbench built, machines assembled, wood [...]

The workbench that we’re building for Woodworking in America (and Megan’s study) is also the workbench we’ll be building next year at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking [...]

I walked in to work Monday morning with trepidation. After cutting the massive tails and tenons for my new “Petite Roubo” bench over the weekend, it was time to find out what kind of [...]

There are few things worse than too-soft screwdrivers. Lima beans, Care Bears and eye surgery with a teaspoon immediately come to mind. When I blogged about my favorite “perfect [...]

The machinery room at Dick GmbH is a power tool lover’s dream. It has an enormous sliding table saw, a jointer/thicknesser the size of a small car and a huge band saw. But there’s no [...]