Bridge City Sale on Profiles for the HP-6
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you combine high-quality beautifully designed tools with a blue-light special, head on over to Bridge City Tools. The Portland, Ore., toolmaking [...]
Purchase by Torque
In the 26 months that I’ve been working at Popular Woodworking, we’ve studied and discussed drills in most ways imaginable. We’ve examined batteries moving from 12 volts through [...]
F+W Warehouse Book Sale is Back!
If a decade ago you lived in the Cincinnati area, you likely attended the F+W Warehouse sale. At the time, we had a book warehouse on our Evanston property (the old Coca Cola bottling plant), and [...]
Roy Underhill Contemplates The Ax
One of the highlights of the Woodworking in America conference in November 2008 was Roy Underhill’s keynote address. Underhill, the hero to many hand-tool woodworkers, touched on a lot of [...]
Going Back to My Old School
When you hear about high school wood shop programs these days, the news is generally sad. Many schools have given up entirely, selling off the equipment and sending the message that there [...]
A Return to Power (And it's not Politics)
Having recently returned from our “Woodworking in America” conference, I immediately went to my shop and turned on a couple power tools. Whew! I needed to do that. The weekend was [...]
Woodworking in America Slideshow
We’re editing our photos and video today from our Woodworking in America conference. In the meantime, please visit the excellent slideshow from Narayan Nayar. Narayan is a tremendous [...]
A Stampede For Colt's MaxiCut Bits
We’ve received a number of inquiries asking about the MaxiCut bits that were first seen at the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta and were included in our coverage of the show. [...]
Prizes and Cash for Your Best Tricks
Tricks of the trade is one of our most popular regular columns. In each issue, we print the best ideas submitted by our readers for making life in the shop easier. Every trick we publish is [...]
Contest: Show Us Your "Cool Tools"
With Thanksgiving just around the bend, the pressure is looming for one of the hardest jobs of the year , holiday shopping. I’m not sure which is more difficult ,choosing what to purchase [...]
Is Your Magazine Messed Up? Here's the Fast Fix
In the subscriber issues of December 2008 Popular Woodworking, there was an insert glued to page 25, and it seems our printer used a super-strong adhesive that didn’t allow easy removal. [...]
Quick Survey: How do You Finish Your Projects?
My favorite top-coat finish is spray lacquer. Sure, I’ve used just about every finishing product under the sun, but I keep coming back to spray lacquer because it’s so fast and so [...]
