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To wrap up my blogging about the ten year anniversary of the Eliot House Woodworking Program I would like to show a few images of projects by our devoted students....

This post is Part 2 of a multi-part series on SketchUp Tricks. More precisely, methods of modeling that save time. In SketchUp Tricks Part 1 I showed you some methods...

We had a wee spot of trouble getting a good file uploaded to the server and service that sends out the digital issue – and due to the holiday break,...

Bosch has done it again – only smaller. Its new 10″ dual-bevel glide miter saw has more in common with its big brother than just a blue motor housing. In...

Who was this year all about? You! This has been a year in which we here at Popular Woodworking have learned more than ever about you, our audience. We have...

Mike Dombrowsky spent two semesters with us at the Eliot Woodshop. After contemplating a few project alternatives he zoomed in on making a shaker influenced end table, but with a...

One of the gripes I hear about French workbenches is that the benchtops are difficult to flatten because of the end grain protruding through the top. I don’t buy it....

Edge-Banding Clamp I ran out of clamps and patience the last time I applied a veneered edge to a long piece of plywood. The tangle of clamps to hold the...

Sometimes, no matter how diligent we are, defects creep into our projects. Often we’re the cause and other times the defects are beyond our control. Or are they? Cherry is...

“For me, furniture design is mostly about problem-solving.” –Marc Spagnuolo, The Wood Whisperer Let’s say you have a good shop to work in – including a solid workbench or other...

With the recent release of our eleventy-billion-years DVD (OK, it’s 19 years, and more than 9,000 pages, plus it includes Glen D. Huey’s “Finishes that Pop” video), [...]

An eagle-eyed reader spotted this small benchtop that looks like the bigger Danish brother to the portable Milkman’s Workbench I wrote about in the June 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking...