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If you’ve ever struggled with sharpening a card scraper or using your handplanes while building furniture, there are two new DVDs on these topics you should find useful. “Hand Scrapers:...

Whenever I meet with a new woodworking group for a seminar or an event of some kind, I give them background on my early days in woodworking and me. One...

Have you checked out the article on the Erastus Rude Shaker Clock in the current issue of Popular Woodworking magazine? I had a great time working with Bob Casey on...

We’ve all read the advice: Always spread out your oily rags on a table to dry, or drape them over the edge of a trash can, making sure they don’t...

For years I used my Stanley 71 router plane in blissful ignorance. I was happy that it was easy to adjust and maneuver. But in the last couple years my...

Last summer I spent a week in Columbus, Ohio, with my best friend from high school. He was there for a conference. I was there to write the text for...

Dusting Off the Anvil One of my favorite books is “The Magic Christian.” It’s about an eccentric billionaire who likes to play practical jokes. In one scene, a man busts...

John Sindelar stands in front of a door at the back of his thriving cabinet and millwork shop in Edwardsburg, Mich. The door opens into blackness and Sindelar turns around...

After collecting tens of thousands of tools, cabinetmaker John Sindelar is ready to show them off in a museum.

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17, and I know  there are family members trying to figure out any last-minute gifts for dear old Dad. We are a woodworking magazine ,...

As a child, nothing put me to sleep faster than one of my father’s slideshows. Sure, they were of his fascinating time in Vietnam, but there’s something about a couch,...

Michael A. Whittemore Sr. of Signal Mountain, Tenn., is the lucky winner of the Powermatic PM2000 cabinet saw from our online contest. Whittemore said he was “drooling over his laptop”...