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If you get the Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools newsletter, you no doubt noticed that at the top of the Jan. 1, 2013 issue, was the announcement that the company’s upcoming sales will [...]

From W.K.H., Chase City, Va. – Among the numerous plans presented in the columns of Carpentry and Building for tool chests, the fact seems to have been overlooked that the chests are often [...]

Last year just weeks prior to Christmas, I decided to make my mother a Pennsylvania spice box with an inlaid door. That was stupid. I got it done (thanks to Glen Huey’s inlay-by-router [...]

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday, from all of us at Popular Woodworking.…

Overwhelmed by the many kind and encouraging responses to my new position, “I can no other answer make but thanks/And thanks, and ever thanks.” (And thanks, too, for an excellent [...]

I don’t know how I missed this! We’ve updated the “FAQs” on our (DRM-free) digital subscriptions, and someone snuck in a new (and long-awaited) question and answer: [...]

The link to download the February 2013 issue just went out to digital subscribers…and there’s a wee error in it – so you’ll be getting another e-mail, with that wee error [...]

I’m in the midst of making my mom’s Christmas present*, and though I did the machine work at the “office” today, I decided to bring the surfaced and mortised pieces home [...]

This evening, I whiled away an hour leafing through “The Wise Practical Home Furniture Builder: Simple Plans for the Amateur Craftsman,” a book from 1952 that is similar to the I Can [...]

Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine has in its winter 2012 issue honored Ron Hock’s “The Perfect Edge” (Popular Woodworking) and Christopher Schwarz’s “The [...]

A largely intact joiners’ shop from the 18th century has recently been “discovered” at the Berrybrook School in Duxbury, Mass. I put the word discovered in quotation marks, [...]

It’s the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and I have a messy house…with guests arriving on Thursday. I should be cleaning. But I started that chore in the study/shop with the intent of at [...]