Fully Detailed Shop Plans

Do you have plans for the furniture you build for magazine articles or for the projects in your books? That’s probably the most-asked question I get when talking with woodworkers. It seems [...]

Mortise Machine Mortises

I cannot imagine the number of mortise-and-tenon joints I’ve cut throughout the years. One of the pieces of furniture I’ve built numerous times, a Shaker Sewing Desk, has 55 of these [...]

SawStop

In our February 2009 Tool Test, we review SawStop's newest offering – a contractor saw that's  priced well below the cabinet saw price, but with all the safety features SawStop has [...]

Building a Bed, Part Two

It has been a week since my first post on building the bed (read it here), as was pointed out by Bill in the comment section. During the week, I was handed many fine ideas to contemplate and …

Grizzly Offers Free Shipping

Are you sitting on the fence waiting to pull the trigger on the purchase of a few new tools? If so, here’s something you should know about. Beginning today, Grizzly Industrial, Inc. is [...]

Building a Bed, Part One

About a year and a half back, my spouse informed me that it was time for a new mattress. “Why?” I asked. There were no lumps. There were no valleys at the center of the bed. No rips. [...]

Colt Bits & Bosch Blades

It’s been a while since we first brought these two woodworking accessories to your attention and we continue to receive email and calls asking where to find these bits and blades. So when a [...]

Helical Cutterhead in a Suitcase Planer

SCTW (Steel City Tool Works) is about to unveil a new suitcase planer that includes its patented helical head. We talked about helical heads being introduced to planers in coverage at 2008 [...]

Unisaw: Made in the U.S.A.

The white stars on the map above show the location of some of the key U.S. suppliers for the Delta Unisaw and the red stars highlight the contributions of internal Black & Decker [...]

Shaker Tall Clocks: A Family Project

Whenever I get the opportunity to speak to a woodworking club or group for the first time, I introduce myself and tell a great story about when my Dad and I first traveled to a lumberyard to [...]

Porter-Cable Faces Issue Head-on

A short while ago, Porter-Cable brought out a new line of tools targeted at professionals. These tools were shown to editors in an event in New York and are in stores now (click here to read [...]