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One of the world’s biggest tool collectors is bringing his brand-new traveling tool museum to Northern Kentucky on Oct. 1-2 to show it off to the public at the Woodworking in America event [...]

I wrote a short review of Karl Holtey’s No. 982 smoothing plane for the October 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine (which is mailing now to subscribers). And you don’t write a [...]

I have four sets of screwdrivers. Three for loaning and one for using. The set I never loan is made up of tools that were made (mostly) by the H.D. Smith & Co. company of Plantsville, Conn. [...]

I’ve been getting questions almost daily about the 18th-century French-style workbench I built for the cover of the August 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The questions go [...]

Learning to sharpen has little to do with your sharpening stones. It has a lot more to do with being able to see your progress and knowing when to stop. Showing a class of woodworkers what a [...]

Nor is it about the workbench. It’s about my sawbenches. During every project I wonder how I ever got by without them. Like Tonya Harding, I think there’s something special about the [...]

We’ve been testing the Veritas Quick-release Sliding Tail Vise for several months now and have been keeping as mum as possible. Now I can break my mum-ness and discuss this interesting [...]

My first Stanley shoulder plane (a No. 93) was the worst plane I ever bought. The sole was more than 1/8″ out of alignment, and it took me a couple hours on a belt sander to even get the [...]

We have about 20,000 new subscribers being added to our e-mail newsletter this week, so we thought it might be a good idea to shoot this quick video of what the office looks like and what [...]

Today we finalized the design for a nice poster that features the famous plate 11 from Andre Roubo’s woodworking masterwork. The poster (redheads not included) will be ready for sale (on [...]

This morning we were messing around with the band saw blades and got into a discussion of how to fold and unfold them properly. I was taught to use my foot to fold it. Robert Lang uses just his [...]

I don’t relish handing out bad reviews of tools. But as someone who gets stoned occasionally by an angry mob, I know that a critical review can help improve the quality of my work in the [...]