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Talk is cheap. We always talk about how important it is to practice, but do we practice what we preach? Yes we do. Practice improves your woodworking abilities and provides a chance to see what [...]

We’ve all been in one of those grooves where everything is going along gangbusters and you have it all under control. That wonderful feeling comes just before the bottom drops out. [...]

Pick up most any woodworking magazine from the past and you can’t help but see advertisements for furniture kits. I know you’ve seen them, the reproductions from The Bartley [...]

A small box arrives at my desk , it’s no more than a 5″ cube. Inside the box is a new product from Demo Air Net (shown above in its packaging). A former jet mechanic turned [...]

If you’ve read the previous entries (entry #1, entry #2) about the 200-year-old mahogany that’s being reclaimed in Belize, and are looking to bring some stock into your shop for [...]

The last newsletter of 2009 had a piece on the “Best New Tools” for the year. The list was of the runners-up , seven tools in all , not the actual winning tools of the year. That list [...]

My Dad always said that the older you get, the faster time passes. The older I get, the more I realize how smart he was. As another December makes its way through life’s shredder, [...]

The tabletop on our for the I Can Do That project in our February 2010 issue, appeared a bit blasé. So to pep up the look, I thought inlay. Knowing I didn’t have the time to create, or the [...]

After we posted the entry about the new Bosch Router Combo (click here to read that entry), a reader asked about the vibration of the tool. Because we had the router in the shop, we decided to [...]

If you build furniture, chances are you assemble pieces as soon as possible to get a better look at the piece. I don’t think I’ve built a chest of drawers where I haven’t set [...]

It takes guts to completely redesign a woodworking tool, especially if you throw out most of what everyone has come to know and use. But that’s exactly what the design team at Bosch has [...]