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I’ve just received an advance copy of Bob Flexner’s new book, “Flexner on Finishing,” and I must say that I’m awfully pleased with it. I was already intimate with [...]

We have some good news on the Woodworking in America “Toolmaker’s Dinner” front. We’ve decided to move the dinner to the Conference Marketplace , which means attendees [...]

Just a quick reminder: We’re looking for excellent “End Grain” submissions, and the deadline is July 31, 2010. The writer of the best 550-word (or so) story will win a complete [...]

Photo courtesy of Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Department of Entomology The American ash tree is under attack from the emerald ash borer, the American chestnut has been all but wiped out by [...]

From 2004-2009, we published 16 issues of Woodworking Magazine. The magazine was conceived to challenge the conventional wisdom of the craft and find the most accurate, fast and straightforward [...]

Bob Baker, a furniture and tool restorer and excellent planemaker, died unexpectedly last week. I had the pleasure of meeting Bob in February of 2006 when we hosted a gathering in Cincinnati for [...]

Though statistics vary, it seems on average that 10 percent of the population is left-handed. So here’s a little experiment for all you right-handers (and one that shocked both Glen Huey [...]

Bookshelves are always a popular subject with our readers. In fact, I’m willing to bet one of my copies of “Henry V” that 90 percent of you have built a bookshelf , and that for [...]

Our backlog of “End Grain” articles (the last editorial page of the magazine), is running dangerously low; it’s time to restock the file, and we need your help. So, we’re [...]

For his first curvilinear project, self-taught woodworker Brad Ferguson decided to go with something simple , a Sam Maloof-style rocking chair. Ferguson (a field clinical engineer by day) has [...]

The August 2010 issue should begin arriving in subscriber mailboxes in the coming week (and our many online extras are now posted). Here’s a peek at just some of what you’ll find [...]

I love getting paid to read, so today was a nice day…at least for the few minutes it took me to read Mark Lovett Wells’, “Daddy, Can We Play in the Workshop?” This cute [...]