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I always used to make fun of my late brother, Jim, when he would tell me about getting up in the middle of the night to drive hundreds of miles to go bass fishing. He never was interested in [...]

Christopher Schwarz’s new book “Workbenches: from Design & Theory to Construction & Use” isn’t like other books on the subject. And that’s precisely the [...]

The Cover That Almost Was Our December issue is on its way to subscribers and should be appearing on newsstands any day now. Sometimes we aren’t sure what to put on the cover, and for this [...]

I’m confident with most hand tools, except for the saw. I can go months without using a plane or chisel, pick one up and get the results I want. Not so with the saw. I don’t get [...]

Popular Woodworking contributor David Mathias wraps up his coverage of Craftsman Weekend in Pasadena, California. Wednesday October 24 I planned my trip to Craftsman Weekend for about a year and [...]

Popular Woodworking contributor David Mathias continues his reports from the Craftsman Weekend in Pasadena, California. Pasadena Heritage Craftsman Weekend is a three-day event. My trip to [...]

As I mentioned last week one of our authors, David Mathias, is spending a week in California immersing himself in all things Greene & Greene. Here is the first of several reports from David: [...]

Confusing the Beginners-In Person I don’t make many personal appearances, but next Saturday, October 27, I will be at the Woodcraft store in Roswell, Georgia. I’ll be giving some [...]

Fans of Greene & Greene furniture often refer to a trip to Pasadena as a pilgrimage. Pasadena (and the nearby Huntington Museum) is home to the majority of original Greene & Greene work [...]

One of the reasons for the success and growth of Wood Werks Supply has been the willingness of the owners to try something new to better serve their customers. When I lived in Columbus, Ohio, it [...]

This morning I took a ride up I-71 to Columbus to pay a visit to Wood Werks Supply. It’s the weekend for their annual Fall Expo, and I haven’t been by the store since moving to [...]

I consider myself fortunate to share the Popular Woodworkingshop with two world-class woodworkers , Christopher Schwarz and Glen D. Huey. After many years of working mostly by myself, it’s [...]