Long-time subscribers are familiar with Steve Shanesy’s work. While he was editor of Popular Woodworking, Steve built everything from a George Nakashima-inspired table to a steel-stringed [...]
This isn’t the simplest project you’ll ever make ,but it may be one of the most useful. It involves making mortise-and-tenon joinery and raised panels, fitting a drawer to its...
It’s been interesting to make a drawer from MDF, plywood and pine. I am constantly amazed at the amout of scrap wood I have lying about my shop, garage and...
Sometimes you just have to do it. For the past few months, whenever I walk into the woodworking shop in my basement and see the router table I built for...
Take a visual tour of the Nancy and Ed Rosenthal collection of fine Ming Dynasty Furniture. You'll get a basic knowledge of the style, materials and joinery used.
Woodworkers can spend a lot of time perfecting a finish for their projects, when often a simple finish will serve just as well. Shellac with a wax topcoat is one such finish.
Interested in a woodworking challenge? Think that participating or just watching the event from your shop would be a hoot? LumberJocks, a group of 500+ woodworkers from around the world,...
Adam Cherubini will be exhibiting his period furniture , made entirely with period tools , at the Designer Craftsmen Show of Philadelphia on Jan. 19-21. If you live in the...
