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Sometimes being the “Back-up” pays dividends. Of the Popular Woodworking staff, I’m the back-up video guy. When it’s necessary, I’m called into action. This past [...]

Pssst. Over here. Have you read, “It’s a Secret”, the article by Chuck Bender in the November 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine? Many woodworkers have, and they have [...]

Opinions are like noses, almost everyone has one (OK. I cleaned up the saying a little). Is that bad, or is that good? It’s sometimes bad because people hide behind the anonymity that the [...]

The Wall Street Journal just reported that Stanley Works and Black & Decker are merging in an all-stock deal valued at $4.5 billion. Black & Decker shareholders will get 1.275 shares of [...]

Discover our picks for the 12 Best New Tools of 2009 in the December issue of Popular Woodworking , if you’re a subscriber, you should be getting the new issue any day now (it will be [...]

There’s not much better than to give something with little value only to receive something useful in return. You have to admit that old, worn-out and non-working drills hanging around the [...]

This coming Saturday, October 31, is the 89th anniversary of the birth of James Krenov, the influential woodworker, author and teacher who passed away on Sept. 9, 2009. To mark the event and [...]

Every year we name the best new tools we’ve encountered and feature them in our December issue of Popular Woodworking magazine. The process we use is entirely unscientific, and we like it [...]

When I last wrote about this discovery of mahogany (read it here), I wrote that the price was not going to be $10 per board foot. I now have that information, sort of. But let me tell you …

If you’re a “dado-holic”, or if you occasionally set up and cut dados while woodworking, Infinity Cutting Tools has just made your life easier with its Dado Measuring Gauge. [...]

I helped Megan Fitzpatrick install the crown moulding on the case-on-case bookshelf that’s featured in the December issue of Popular Woodworking. Here’s how I do it: When I have a [...]

Norm Abram sat down with Publisher Steve Shanesy at the July 2007 AWFS show in Las Vegas We’ve just received a press release stating that, after 21 seasons, The New Yankee Workshop is [...]