Visit any woodworking forum and you’ll see mention of the Wixey Digital Angle Gauge. We had to see if it measured up. Along with the usual check of the angle...
Each Holiday season we are blessed, or cursed, with that Hollywood production of Home Alone starring Macaulay Culkin. And each year I wonder why this is an annual presentation. This...
A Festool table saw ready for ripping. During the last seven days, I’ve eaten a lot of foreign food, drank a lot of foreign beer and listened to a lot...
When it comes to joinery, I use the mortise-and-tenon joint a great deal. To create this joint I have used every system imaginable and with great success, from a tenon...
This week I’m in Germany with a group of woodworking editors to visit the Festool headquarters in Stuttgart and try out the company’s new DF 500 Q Domino system. This...
There are things that are very nice about working at a woodworking magazine. New tools arrive out of nowhere. New ideas are promoted for upcoming articles, which afford one the...
Coming in the February 2007 issue (at the printer now) is a close copy of an 18th-century Creole-style table I built earlier this year. It looks like an ambitious and...
How do you accurately test a seven-piece professional set of Infinity router bits? Let’s face it, you could spend months in the shop trying to accomplish such a feat by...
Before coming to Popular Woodworking, I had many years of building furniture for customers and clients under my belt, and I found that I had developed a few habits that...
Everyone knows about Chris Schwarz’s affinity with hand tools and readers know that David Thiel was the power tool counterpart here at Popular Woodworking. With David’s move to the books...
