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Congratulations go out to Robert McCollum of Lockport, N.Y., who won our Festool Giveaway. He won a Kapex Sliding Compound Miter Saw, and a CT 26 Dust Extractor for his shop....

Welcome to the third day of first grade. We are building a chest, ha ha. It’s a big chest, hee hee. And after we slam our chest together we make...

I started using stringed packing tape to glue up mitered joints on small jewelry boxes years ago. To glue up mitered boxes you just tape the points of the miters...

As instructors at woodworking classes, we spend most of our time sampling bon-bons and braiding each others hair while the students work away the last bits of their cartilage between...

Patio Planter By Tim Johnson If you can build a box, you can build this planter. It’s much sturdier than most commercial versions, so it should last for many years. [...]

Monday’s “Anarchist’s Tool Chest” class “The Woodwright’s School” was the first of five days of dovetailing. By the end of the week, everyone will be [...]

In my previous blog entry I showed how I threaded the stem to effectively create a bolt. The next step was to find (or make) a nut that would secure the old compass knob...

Tomorrow morning, I’m hopping in my car and driving south to Roy Underhill’s “The Woodwright’s School,” where the view off the back deck of where I feel honored to be...

For the  James Krenov-style hanging cabinet I built out of cherry for the April 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine I used tapered sliding dovetails to join the case. For...

THESE ARE AROUND WORLD WIDE . YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU COULD FIND IN THEM ??? OR WHAT YOU CAN MAKE FROM YOUR FIND ? YOU WONT KNOW TILL YOU...

scrap yard ideas work wonders mainly breaker yards.?? ideas galore .see what your imagination can do for you.???????

THIS WAS MADE FROM 9 X PALLETS  4X4  TOOK 3 WEEKS IN MY OWN TIME. SUMMERS COMING MAYBE SOMEONE MAY BUY IT. AS ALWAYS LINSEEDED TO LAST IN ALL WEATHERS...