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Spalted Wood By Alan Lacer When wood is captured somewhere between the extremes of being completely sound and fully rotten, it can display magnificent beauty. The discoloration, prominent black [...]

SEE WHAT RECYCLE MEANS ???FROM TIMBER ON A RUBBISH YARD WITH HUNDREDS OF NAILS IN .TO A TABLE FOR ANY OCCASION.ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU WANT IT TO BE.?? JUST...

Register now for Woodworking in America 2012 and reserve your spot at the early-bird rate – plus get first dibs on the limited-attendance “extracurricular activities,” including [...]

From mastering hand tools to router basics, 18th-century joinery to Japanese hand tools and joinery, you’ll find it all among the five new DVD selections now available  to order at...

I’ve long been a fan of cutting tenons on the table saw. I’ve found it can be done quickly, with repeatable accuracy and safely. Recently, I discovered a new saw...

MADE FROM SCAFFOLD PLANKS FOR A NURSERY SCHOOL. HAS BE STAINED FOREST GREEN THEN OILED .KIDS AT THIS NURSERY WILL LOVE THIS .WHEN THE TEACHER SITS IN THE CHAIR ,ITS...

OK – maybe I don’t really need a 19th-century British officer (though it would be lovely to have a companion who knew how tea should properly be made). But I ...

If you were to rank woodworking projects by degree of difficulty, chairs would be at the top of the list. They aren’t like boxes or tables with nice square corners...

Ever since Roy Underhill wrote about the joys of mutton tallow as a tool lubricant in Popular Woodworking Magazine in the August 2010 issue, readers have been asking where to...

Kari Hultman (The Village Carpenter) just posted on her blog that the revised and updated edition of “The Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton” is now available for pre-order from Astragal...

Almost every system for sharpening tools works just fine, so the differences between the systems come down to speed, expense, portability and mess. In December, Lee Valley Tools started carrying...

It seems that some of the most useful devices are too simple to think of, and this little box is an excellent example of that. I first saw  bench blocks...