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Hey, welcome back. It’s me again, Daniel Fishkin. In my last post, I introduced you to the musical instrument called the daxophone and discussed the principles of building its tongues,...

I am making a bed headboard which requires multiple mortise and tenon joints on different wood thicknesses. I am routing my mortises and seeing the stop line that was laid...

I had a chance to talk with Nicole Sweeney from NBC’s summer craft show Making It (with hosts Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler), which airs Tuesdays this summer at 10/9c....

These jigs help you hand cut flawless mortise-and-tenon joints. By Jeff Miller Mortise-and-tenon joints tend to frustrate woodworkers far more than dovetails do. That’s no mystery; they are [...]

12 Tips for Better Biscuit Joining Improve performance and expand function. By Richard Tendick 1. Make Corner Splines Decorative corner splines sure make an ordinary box look great. But they...

Two jigs let you crank them out flawlessly! By Randy Johnson Everyone I know has a drawer stuffed with photos that are waiting to be framed. What often keeps us...

Remember Craftsman Tools? I do! Best hand tools in the world, and if you busted one you took it back to the store and they gave you a new one...

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Nancy Hiller’s English Arts & Crafts Furniture: Projects and Techniques for the Modern Maker. You can get your copy at Shop Woodworking. Enjoy!...

I came up with this slick way to drill a large, straight hole in the end of a post. It works great and makes good use of my tall floor-mounted...

Hey! My name is Daniel, and this is the first of three posts about the daxophone, a very special and strange musical instrument that not many people know about outside...