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If we ever change the name of our magazine to Erudite Blowhard Wood Finery, I know exactly where to get the headlines for all the projects we’ll publish: The comments on this blog entry. We [...]

This has been one of our busiest years ever at Popular Woodworking Magazine. Plus, I have been in many foreign lands with exotic cultures and their own languages: France, England, North Carolina. [...]

Router planes are the Starsky. Handsaws are the Hutch. These two tools work together all the time in my shop. In fact, all the sawing classes I teach are actually classes on the router plane in [...]

Following his trip to North Carolina to shoot two shows with Roy Underhill for “The Woodwright’s Shop” and a three-day teaching stint at Roy’s school, Chris took a few [...]

I’ve always been hesitant to get to know my personal heroes because it’s usually a disappointment. They almost always turn out to be just like the rest of us. A bit vain. [...]

When I teach classes, I tell my students to buy their winding sticks in the “18th-century Tool Section” of their local home center. They look puzzled until I pull out my winding [...]

I would probably be a better person if I didn’t interact with other people. That is the thought that flashes through my head when Roy Underhill says to me: “I could go down the street [...]

So we shot two 25-minute episodes of “The Woodwright’s Shop” today. So you are probably wondering what the heck I did with the other 23 hours of my day. Manicure? Pedicure? [...]

We have some good news on the Woodworking in America “Toolmaker’s Dinner” front. We’ve decided to move the dinner to the Conference Marketplace , which means attendees [...]

Let’s say your table saw’s guard is painted black. And you’ve figured out that if you put a piece of wood under it in a certain way, that usually it comes out cut like you [...]

I’m packing up all the tools I’ll need in North Carolina for the coming week, and I was a bit shocked this morning as I went through my checklist. One of the “Woodwright’s [...]

I know I am going to get flack for this, but I cannot help myself. Last week we received two copies of a cool new book in the mail , “500 Cabinets: A Showcase of Design & [...]