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By Norman Reid Design has always been one of my biggest challenges in woodworking. To be frank, I didn’t know how to create my own designs. I’m always amazed by...

by Jim Stuard from the February 2001 issue Chisel Use: An easy guide to whether you should be pushing,paring or pounding your chisels, in any given situation. Back when I...

You may already know about the French cleat, but if you haven’t heard of it, this neat trick is a great simple way to hang cabinets, wall racks or shelving. In this excerpt...

In this video excerpt from “Table Saw Jigs & Fixtures,” Matthew Teague tells you why you might want this jig for your table saw, how to make it, and how...

When it comes to turned furniture components, you only have a few options. You can buy mass-produced factory-turned components that do not accurately recreate the fine details in period [...]

Whether you buy your furniture wood from a specialty hardwood lumberyard or from a local sawyer, the chance that the wood is ready to go into a piece of furniture...

In this video, Greene & Greene expert Darrell Peart discusses the square, pillowed ebony pegs often seen on the Greene brothers’ furniture designs (most of them were merely decorative, he...

If you’re someone who builds things (and as a PW reader, it’s a safe bet that you are), chances are at some point you’ve daydreamed about building a treehouse. But in...

Above is the SketchUp model for Roy Underhill’s Double Spring Pole Lathe from the cover of the August 2016 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Above is the saw & plane till from the August 2016 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Above is the maple medicine cabinet SketchUp model from the June 2016 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Above is the SketchUp model of the Baillie Scott Side Table from the April 2016 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine.