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This weekend, in addition to eating far too many leftovers, I curled up on my couch with my cats and the February 2012 Popular Woodworking Magazine binder – and despite my prodigious intake of [...]

Attention all digital subscribers: When your e-mail to download the issue arrives (which should be later today or early tomorrow), you’ll have the option for two versions. One has a video [...]

Those of you who routinely send me e-mails when I write about something “not woodworking related,” stop reading. You will not be amused – even though this involves a sharp blade and [...]

The prosecution asserts that woodworkers shouldn’t use cutlists, because it’s virtually impossible to cut all pieces for a project to size, then assemble it and have everything fit [...]

If you read the woodworking message boards and blogs, you’ve likely read a little bit about Christopher Schwarz’s latest book, “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” (Lost Art [...]

I’ve just received Adam Cherubini’s Arts & Mysteries column for the February 2012 issue, and I’m delighted that he’s written about boarded furniture – one of his [...]

Tomorrow evening, I’m giving a talk titled, “Why Use Hand Tools?” Right now, the answer to that question seems to be that there’s no quicker way to make an absolute mess [...]

The first thing I did this morning was polish the blade on the Veritas Miniature Router Plane and try it out on a hinge mortise (the pre-dawn use explains the mood lighting in the pictures). As [...]

We recently sent a survey to our Woodworking in America e-mail list to find out when and in what city Woodworking in America 2012 should take place – early fall was the winner on timing, but the [...]

It’s so darn cute that I can’t come up with anything intelligent to say. This weekend, I’ll touch up the blade on this Veritas miniature router plane and try it out – but [...]

Thanks for the many funny entries in the Caption the Photo contest I posted on Friday. Many captions made me chuckle – and I couldn’t decide which of the following two I liked more: [...]

The day before I started at Popular Woodworking Magazine in August of 2005 was the last day I had occasion to iron a shirt. But today, I pulled my iron out from the deep recesses of a cabinet in [...]