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The Rochester Woodworkers Society was kind enought to invite me to speak to their members this coming Friday night, and to give a day-long workshop on Saturday. I’m looking forward...

Frank Klausz shows you three ways to master this traditional and strong joint.

Pattern 1: Work each board in the glue-up separately. Work along the grain in short strokes, back and forth. Editor’s Note: Troy Sexton has prepared an excellent piece on his...

And they are off. The guy in green with the two kids were the first through the gate. I was hoping to find out what they waited eight hours for...

Working for a magazine can cause some confusion about dates. We work a few months ahead of real time. We’re about to send the December issue to the printer, and...

Now you can get all seven issues of Popular Woodworking from 2005 on one handy, searchable CD. Plus, we’ve included on the CD one bonus issue we published that year...

Editor’s note: Contributing Editor Troy Sexton is remarkably good with a sander. What is even more remarkable is how fast he is. Our November issue (at the printer’s now!) features...

If you have ever sharpened a hand tool or tried to teach someone to sharpen a hand tool, there are a lot of mental and physical obstacles to overcome. One...

Just about every day, I’d walk through the Popular Woodworking shop on my way to the copier and glance at Chris’ assortment of handsaws and chisels, beautifully arranged along the...

One of the country’s best tool sharpeners will be touring the country this fall to give seminars on his hand-sharpening techniques. Harrelson Stanley, the owner of japanesetools.com and the [...]

Every attendee who entered the International Woodworking Fair this week was greeted by a shocking sight: Grizzly Industrial hung an enormous banner over the main escalator trumpeting its new [...]

It isn’t every day that you see a new tool company appear out of nowhere with a complete line of high-quality woodworking machines, but that is almost exactly what happened...