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As I wrapped up the work on an article for the June issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine (a dressing table copied from an antique that has the easiest interior construction I’ve ever seen [...]

Table saw safety has been a hot news item lately, and as we worked on this story it became apparent that the numbers being published regarding the prevalence of injuries weren’t adding up. [...]

Earlier, I posted an entry about the number of table saws in use in the United States. (Click here to read that piece.) In the post, the figure was pushed from 700,000, as represented in The [...]

Because this lawsuit is such and important case and could have an immense impact on woodworking and the availability of tools in the future , especially table saws , we’re doing what we can [...]

We’ve all been following the lawsuit where a jury awarded a Massachusetts man $1.5 million dollars for an accident he had while using a Ryobi table saw. (Need to catch up on the story? [...]

Plans are moving ahead full force with the newly announced woodworking show on PBS. I’m told that WGBH and Tommy J. MacDonald have met with a few potential sponsors for the show. Laurie [...]

The snow is finally melting. You can see the greenish-brown grass again. That means we are heading into spring. That, in turn, signifies that I need to get busy preparing for upcoming teaching [...]

A couple weeks back, I wrote about the step-chair I was making for my niece, per a Fitzpatrick family tradition that began in the 1950s. The project plan was from U-Bild, which discontinued the [...]

Blade-braking technology is a vital part of the table saws from SawStop , the ability to stop a spinning blade in 1/100 of a second is what put the company on the map. SawStop table saws are the [...]

I dislike writing about the magazine business because it’s not useful for our readers, who expect us to write about woodworking instead of engaging in navel-gazing. But because we have [...]

Woodworkers of old (of more than a decade, anyway) may remember the Tool Crib of the North (TCN) as among the premier online dealers in woodworking tools and supplies. Well before he was editor [...]

Most woodworkers followed Norm Abram at New Yankee Workshop and you know how fast the word of his retirement spread across the woodworking community. It was a sad day indeed. The fact that WGBH, [...]