Featured Article

By Christopher Schwarz This bench vise might not have originally been intended for cutting dovetails, but boy is it great for it. It raises your work, then stows away when you don’t need it. A [...]

With our compilation CDs, it’s easy to find exactly the magazine article or information you’re looking for. And now, the Popular Woodworking Magazine2010 Compilation CD is in the bookstore and [...]

The cover project for the December 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is a Line & Berry Chest built by Senior Editor Glen D. Huey. This chest is a traditional design from the Chester [...]

The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, has just released the new edition of “Wood Handbook — Wood as an Engineered Material,” as part of [...]

Early in December (the 4th and 5th, to be exact), Popular Woodworking Magazine opens its shop in Cincinnati for another class workshop and DVD session. “Build a Saw Bench with Chris [...]

With many manufacturers adding the option of spiral cutterheads to their jointers and planers – if you toss out the standard three-knife cutterhead and pull a few extra dollars out of your wallet [...]

A few weekends ago, we held a “Build a Sawbench” class in our palatial Cincinnati shop (we wish), and managed to squeeze in 10 students around nine benches – one of them a wee bit [...]

The first time I saw a puzzle box was when one was sitting on Popular Woodworking Books Editor David Thiel’s desk. My first thought was, “Wow this is cool!” Shortly followed by, [...]

You have to admit that the design of the newest jigsaw from Ridgid is a bit unique. It is a barrel-grip jigsaw with an extreme flat front – as it sits on the bench, it reminds me of a small …

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 The harbingers of Autumn are, for me, riotously colored leaves, my [...]

In the November issue (#186) of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I review a set of Wainscot & Paneling (#00-510) router bits from Infinity Cutting Tools. (Check out the set here.) The set does a [...]

Whenever I wander into a bookstore, be it online or in a bricks-and-mortar building, I immediately cruise to the period furniture books. It’s from books such as these, especially museum-type [...]