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For more than a decade I have been interested in combining metal office furniture (predominantly filing cabinets and metal hardware drawers) with wooden components to form new pieces. Often my...

As I posted late last week, we now offer a digital subscription to Popular Woodworking Magazine. Sales are already brisk (thank you!), and we’ve received a number of questions, too....

Rubberwood is the wood from the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis). It has always been used on a small scale, but has become much more common now, a relative [...]

File this one under: Tricks that everyone knows but me. Whenever I work against a fence on my drill press, I constantly huff and sweep the table clear of shavings....

Anything – a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g – that reduces the time I spend sharpening my tools makes me giddy. Care Bear giddy. Monchichi giddy. Making tools dull is more fun. A few years...

THESE I MAY HAVE IDEA FOR ??? WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THESE???? NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE???????????? AS YOU KNOW ME I CAN AN WILL MAKE USE OF THESE ???????????????? CAR...

A lot of you asked for it – and here it is – a digital subscription is now available to Popular Woodworking Magazine! Each issue will be in PDF format,...

The TS-2 Master Try Square is one of two tools that started Bridge City Tools (the other was the SA-2 Scratch Awl), and for our next issue, John Economaki is...

In my blog earlier this week on drilling holes for bench dogs and holdfasts I mentioned a 3/4”-diameter up-cut spiral bit we use in a plunge router to make perfect...

MADE FROM A 3/4 LENGHT OF MDF AND SOME PINE OFFCUTS. JUST NEEDS PAINTING.MAYBE SOMEONE WILL BUY THIS.

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A RING PULL TIN CAN???????????????? THIS CAN HAD BEANS IN IT.. SO I CUT A OPENING OUT AND INSERTED A GOLF BALL.. OPENING IS 25MM...

THESE ARE ALL MADE FROM SCAFFOLD PLANKS THAT I HAVE MACHINED. A DAYS WORK TO DO!!.THESE WILL BE TAKEN AND SOLD TO WHO EVER WOULD LIKE TO BUY THEM AT...