A Penchant for Pattern Routing
As I wrapped up the work on an article for the June issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine (a dressing table copied from an antique that has the easiest interior construction I’ve ever seen [...]
Update: The Number of Table Saws is Even Larger
Earlier, I posted an entry about the number of table saws in use in the United States. (Click here to read that piece.) In the post, the figure was pushed from 700,000, as represented in The [...]
A Response From Ryobi Technologies, Inc.
Because this lawsuit is such and important case and could have an immense impact on woodworking and the availability of tools in the future , especially table saws , we’re doing what we can [...]
Actual Table Saws in Use: A Numbers Game
We’ve all been following the lawsuit where a jury awarded a Massachusetts man $1.5 million dollars for an accident he had while using a Ryobi table saw. (Need to catch up on the story? [...]
WGBH & T-Mac Update
Plans are moving ahead full force with the newly announced woodworking show on PBS. I’m told that WGBH and Tommy J. MacDonald have met with a few potential sponsors for the show. Laurie [...]
Catch A Woodworking Class In 2010
The snow is finally melting. You can see the greenish-brown grass again. That means we are heading into spring. That, in turn, signifies that I need to get busy preparing for upcoming teaching [...]
SawStop Safety System Saga Steams Forward
Blade-braking technology is a vital part of the table saws from SawStop , the ability to stop a spinning blade in 1/100 of a second is what put the company on the map. SawStop table saws are the [...]
WGBH Returns to Woodworking
Most woodworkers followed Norm Abram at New Yankee Workshop and you know how fast the word of his retirement spread across the woodworking community. It was a sad day indeed. The fact that WGBH, [...]
Festool Improves Its C12 Drill-driver
Since the Festool C12 drill/driver’s release, the Popular Woodworking shop has had the tool in use. In fact, someone in the shop (I’ll not mention the name) keeps this tool close at [...]
Shaker Cupboard: Unique Backboard Arrangement
The backboards on the White Water Shaker cupboard, the cover project on the first-ever Popular Woodworking Magazine (April 2010), gave us all a charge. Why would the maker of the original [...]
Grizzly Goes Canadian, eh!
All you woodworkers north of the 49th parallel , I’m talking to those way north where it’s not convenient to drive to Washington State or into Pennsylvania , you now have the [...]
Delta Unisaw Rebuild Part VI
It’s sad to reach the end, but we learn to accept it. And that’s where we are in the Delta Unisaw Rebuild videos. Episode six (click here) has more than a couple tidbits of [...]
