Featured Article

For his first curvilinear project, self-taught woodworker Brad Ferguson decided to go with something simple , a Sam Maloof-style rocking chair. Ferguson (a field clinical engineer by day) has [...]

Shellac is my finish of choice for furniture. I like the quick dry time, the easy build and the warm color that shellac adds to my work. However, along with these attributes, shellac has the [...]

New Power Tool Added In June 2006, Popular Woodworking Magazine introduced a new column on how to make nice furniture with simple tools and common materials available at your local home center. 

The August 2010 issue should begin arriving in subscriber mailboxes in the coming week (and our many online extras are now posted). Here’s a peek at just some of what you’ll find [...]

Woodworking classes always include a surprise. You can be pretty sure going in that it will be a good experience, but you can never predict what you’ll take away from it, or what will be [...]

This week Delta heard “Everybody into the pool,” and joined the fun. With all the recent tool news , General’s new distribution center, Grizzly’s Polar Bear Series and [...]

I love getting paid to read, so today was a nice day…at least for the few minutes it took me to read Mark Lovett Wells’, “Daddy, Can We Play in the Workshop?” This cute [...]

There is a special satisfaction to solving a problem with tape. Yes, it’s nice to master the tools and techniques of our forefathers, but it’s a lot more fun to say “Look at [...]

Now that Editor Christopher Schwarz is done with his latest bench build (you can read about it on his blog , and in the August issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, which mails in a couple [...]

The saying is that a leopard doesn’t change its spots, but I guess it is possible for a bear to change its color. This week Grizzly Industrial Inc. will announce a new line of tools that [...]

As we move into summer, many tool manufacturers have events where editor-types are brought in to look at new tools set for release during the year, or in some cases the tools might not reach [...]

I’ve always wondered why Federal Furniture is not as big a deal as Queen Anne or Chippendale work in the woodworking world. In the antiques world, Federal pieces are not the top [...]