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Being somewhat new to the magazine business (I have been a contributing editor of nearly nine years) I was unsure what to expect when I moved into my new position...

In the February issue (on newsstands Jan. 2, 2007), you’ll find complete plans for an 18th-century Creole Table. Below, you’ll find the perfect spicy dish to accompany it. And making...

If you think that a .001″-thick shaving from a hand plane counts as a fine shaving, then please read on. For the next four weeks, Japanese tool expert and merchant...

Before I knew Bob, one of our senior editors here at Popular Woodworking, I knew him as Robert W. Lang, the author of two landmark books I owned that were...

One of our year end traditions is to pick our favorite tools of the year. Usually this list contains 10 or 12 tools, but this was no ordinary year. Our...

Lee Valley Tools‘s latest catalog is filled with lots of interesting stuff that we’re beginning to wade through, including two new plane totes that allow you to convert the Veritas...

Our full-fledged, in-print review of the Steel City table saw will appear in our February 2007 issue. In the meantime, we’ve had several questions about what we’ve posted so far...

The opening sequence of David Charlesworth’s latest DVD shows him securing a chisel in a honing guide and putting the tool to the stone for four strokes. He adjusts the...

Readers of our magazine know that we enthusiastically embrace both power- and hand-tool techniques. We’ve found that the best-quality modern-day work tends to involve both hand and machine [...]

I have a couple of heros in the business world, guys who make sense about making money. The first is W. Edwards Deming best known for his book “Out of...

I’m working on a small chest for the February 2007 “I Can Do That” column. Because it’s a primitive design, I wanted the piece to look as if it had...

The old saying goes you only have one chance to make a first impression, and digging into putting together the new Steel City Table saw I found myself impressed. The...