Shop Blog

While teaching a recent class, I nicked my thumb on something sharp, and the shop’s first aid kit was locked up for some reason. No matter – I closed up...

Threading and tapping wood by hand can be frustrating, even when you know what you are doing. Today, 11 students and I at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship built Moxon-style...

A hearty congratulations goes out to Bill Ketler of Silver Spring, Md., winner of our Workshop Makeover Giveaway, sponsored by JET Tools and Bessey Tools. He will be adding $6,000...

  A few months ago I blogged about the advent of India-made premium planes. I said that I will try to get a hold of a shoulder plane, a clone of the Record...

THESE ARE THROWN AWAY EVERY DAY . SO WHY THROW ? WHY NOT RECYCLE WASTE CARDBOARD TUBES??? NO USE TO ANYONE ? BUT TO ME IDEAS/ DESIGNS ??? BASIC TOOLS...

This week I’ve been surfacing a lot of wood by hand, from pedestrian sugar pine to funky metals that have wood-like properties (e.g. purpleheart). And all the while I have...

I spent the afternoon with Peter Follansbee at his shop at Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts – watching him work for a profile I’m writing about him for Popular Woodworking Magazine....

In 2005 I had the good fortune to spend a couple days with Norm Abram at his New Yankee Workshop building one of the program’s most popular projects – an...

The Way Wood Works: Birch This affordable wood is great for both high-end and utilitarian cabinetry. By Tim Johnson Birch is a hot item at the lumberyard these days, and...

I was previewing the 20th Anniversary Episode of the “The Woodwright’s Shop” on my computer at work, preparing images and a description for use in our streaming video site. I...

School’s Woodworking Awards: Mark Greensburg, KS Tornado Recovery Lavergne, TN – In his own words, Industrial Technology Instructor Peter Kern was blown away when his students at Kiowa [...]