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The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, has just released the new edition of “Wood Handbook — Wood as an Engineered Material,” as...

A few weekends ago, we held a “Build a Sawbench” class in our palatial Cincinnati shop (we wish), and managed to squeeze in 10 students around nine benches – one...

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 The harbingers of Autumn are, for me, riotously colored...

I don’t know if you’ve looked for woodworking books lately at your local bookstore – but I have, and there’s a dearth of offerings. So, our bookstore folk have been...

From the Fall 2010 Pottery Barn Catalog In 2004, a year before I joined the Popular Woodworking Magazine staff, I was co-author, with John McGuane, of “The Essential Pine Book,”...

Soon, subscribers will start receiving their November 2010 issues of Popular Woodworking Magazine , and therein, they’ll find that I fell down on the job. In between our final page...

Are you hoarding a bin full of interesting scraps you can’t bear to throw away…but no project in mind on which to use them? How about someone else’s scrap bin...

A quick reminder: The pre-sale special on Bob Flexner’s new book, “Flexner on Finishing,” ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT today. Order it now for $19.99 , at midnight, the price...

How many saws does it take to cut giant dovetails? In my case, three. Sure, those of you with mad saw skills might simply whip out the panel saw and...

Bob Flexner’s new book, “Flexner on Finishing,” is due in our warehouse any day now, but we’ve extended the 20 percent off pre-sale price through Sept. 20. This book, [...]

First, many thanks to the many of you who submitted entries for our “End Grain” contest. I had the pleasure of reading more than 70 fun, funny, poignant, pointed and...

On July 27, I posted a short entry about Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD), a twig beetle-born fungus that has been killing black walnut (Juglans nigra) trees in seven Western states....