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Christopher Schwarz and Lucy May are pleased to announce the newest addition to their family. Length: 18”. Weight: 9 lbs., 4 oz. Birth date: Feb. 15, 2012. Delivered by: Peter...

In cleaning up the shop this past weekend, I came across the prototype for the Krenovian wall cabinet I built for the April issue and was reminded of how helpful...

In my first blog entry I showed the revised plans for the oak mallet that my students are building. Here, I will show the process of cutting and gluing the parts together. Once...

PALLET TIMBER 1 PALLET TO MAKE THIS .SIMPLE IDEAS ARE THE BEST // THESE SELL FOR

An 18th-century mahogany bonnet-top highboy has long been the centerpiece of the furniture collection of the Snoot Museum in East Upscale, Massachusetts. The piece was built in 1769 and signed...

Anyone who has ever read Joseph Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises” (1678) has puzzled over his pictures of saws. There are some frame saws, a whipsaw and a fancy handled saw without...

While we’re not quite ready to launch the complete web site for Woodworking in America 2012, we’re almost there! More than 20 top-notch woodworkers have accepted our invitation to speak...

Old styles of furniture can still speak to us loud and clear today. The Queen Anne style, popular in America from 1725 to 1760, is an elegant language of flowing...

Stealth Woodworking By Robert J. Collins While browsing through woodworking magazines at a local bookstore, I spotted plans for a project that really excited me. Since I didn’t want to...

Feline-Based Finish By Bill Esposito After reading that burnishing lathe-turned objects with wood shavings leaves a lustrous, silky smooth finish, I decided to try it on the goblet I had...

Shorts Shock By Cathy Groves My husband uses scraps of wood, called “shorts,” for carving. In a lumber store, he saw some lovely pieces in a bin behind the counter....

The editors were meeting recently to plan articles for future issues and it was decided that each of us would contribute to an article by sharing a favorite box we’d...