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Here at Popular Woodworking we like great pieces of furniture for the projects we publish in the magazine. What we really like are great pieces of furniture with a good...

There aren’t many things better than free food, new power tools, and a friendly bunch of woodworkers. Last Wednesday evening that’s what things were like here at the Popular Woodworking...

Back in June, we reported on the closing of the Canadian woodworking school, Rosewood Studio. We’re happy to follow that up with this report on the reopening and reorganization of...

In every project, there is at least one process that takes much longer than expected. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first piece of furniture you’ve made or the five...

When my son was in Cub Scouts, we went on field trips on Saturday mornings. One week we went to the woodshop of one of the kid’s grandfathers. It was...

One of the best-kept secrets in woodworking is the fact that often the most useful devices are not the biggest and most expensive. In the upcoming October issue of Popular...

This year at the AWFS show we saw several new table saws with new guard systems that include riving knives. I wrote about it here on the blog and the...

This jig enables you to safely make a cut on the table saw with the workpiece held vertically as it moves over the blade.

What tools would Norm Abram and Scott Phillips grab on the way out the door if their shops caught fire? Find out next week when Popular Woodworking presents exclusive video...

Riving Knives , Not Just for The Europeans Anymore Of all the new things appearing at this year’s AWSF show, the most exciting is the sudden appearance of true riving...

Below is an upper drawer on a Gustav Stickley #814 sideboard. I took some heat for not including drawer details in my two books of Craftsman furniture drawings. My reasoning...

If I had a life, I would probably have something better to do on a Friday night than go to an auction preview of Arts & Crafts period furniture. But...