Shop Blog

Last time I showed how Mike had come up with a plan to build the wings from two components: the front part of the wing and the feathers. The feathers...

Woodworkers are always looking for a better way to flatten the top of their workbench after they finish building it, or when the top has gone out of truth for...

It is unwise to rush when installing vises on a workbench. So I stopped whipping the maggots students during the last two days of the class and encouraged them to...

Keep your eyes peeled on this blog, our WIA Facebook Page, The Renaissance Woodworker blog, and our Twitter feed (we’re @PWeditors)…for all things Woodworking in America 2011: The [...]

Installing vises in workbenches is always a finicky process – unless you go for a super-simple setup like the one I prefer: A quick-release vise for the end vise and...

No, this is not an obituary (but it feels a bit like one). You see, Glen D. Huey, senior editor, has decided to leave Popular Woodworking Magazine as a staff...

Reitveld Chair We’ve turned an icon of modern design into a comfortable, easy-to-build outdoor project. By Tom Caspar In 1918 the Dutch cabinetmaker Gerrit Rietveld reduced the idea of a...

THIS IS JUST A TRIAL USING OFF CUTS AND MITRES PLUS STAPLES TO SEE THE SQUARE IN A SQUARE.!! THIS EVENTUALLY WILL BE MADE FROM A HARDWOOD.DEPENDS WHAT OFFCUTS I...

JUST HAD EMAIL FROM MR.EDWARD MEYER OF RIPLEYS SEEING IS BELIEVING MUSEUM,HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO BUY MY TRIANGLE FOR THEIR MUSEUM.THE NEW TRIANGLE WILL BE MADE IN HARDWOOD,AND...

When I walked into the shop at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking this morning at 8:24 a.m., the place was a wreck. The students were fitting their joints among piles...

This is a model of a small block of wood used to practice layout and joinery.

We’ve received a lot of good questions, suggestions and comments about our upcoming book on furniture from the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) – thank...