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Last year when we moved the crates for the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event into our former shop, it was a half-hour production with a lot of grunting, sweating and jerry-rigging...

Years ago I was asked to judge a building contest put on by Bosch that pitted young technical students against one another for a big cash prize and a whole...

How to Flatten Wrinkled Veneer By Mario Rodriguez If you've ever handled highly figured veneer, you know that it can be stiff, brittle and prone to cracking, much like a...

Four-Sided Quartersawn Table Legs How to rout lock miters on narrow pieces. By Tom Caspar and Stewart Crick Purchase the complete version of this woodworking technique story from AWBookstore.com. If...

Hammer Your Own Copper Hardware By David Olson Purchase the complete version of this woodworking technique story from AWBookstore.com. Hardware doesn’t have to come from a catalog. You can make...

Lighted Quilt Hanger By Randy Johnson Decorative quilts make great wall displays, and this quilt valance gives you an easy way to show off a quilt—with light, no less. The...

Some machines are easy to set up to collect dust and chips while others defy all attempts. On the easy list are most stationary machines: Plug the hose into the...

With the release of the long-awaited book “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree,” I hope to get many more reports like this one from woodworker Wilbur Pan in New...

Part two of Christopher Scwarz’s “Mastering Hand Tools” series, “Knives, Marking Gauges and Cutting Tools,” is available on our ShopClass site. In it Schwarz gives a [...]

The first tenet of “I Can Do That” is that all projects we build for it must be doable with the modest (but decent) set of beginner tools we’ve identified,...

If you were one of the 450 people at Woodworking in America 2011, then hopefully you were able to fit in one of Jay van Arsdale’s sessions on Japanese tools...

The first project I give to my students in the Intro to Woodworking class at 3rdWard NYC is building a wooden mallet. The mallet is perfect because it requires less...