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As we get ready for Woodworking in America (Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2011 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center), we’ve asked each speaker to send us a list of classes he...

The last stages of this fun job were to cut the plaque ellipse shape and install the plaque on the trunk. Notice that the middle letter ? received an exceptionally...

After I laid out the letters' design, I started to establish a middle creek line on each of the letter's parts. To cut this creek you can use a marking...

WHY CHOCOLATE EASTER EGGS? WHY NOT WOODEN/TIMBER EGGS?WILL LAST LONGER??LATHE MAGIC….

Like many of you I have a standard size two cargarage that my wife also likes to use to park her car in.  I had a Rigid table saw but...

This afternoon, Chris Schwarz sent the following e-mail to the other editors: “http://www.milwaukeetool.com/news/milwaukee-ink Megan, get on this right away. I sense a future husband for [...]

With the exciting new publication of Nicholson’s 1850 text, I fully expect we will be hearing a great deal more about Nicholson, and very likely a great deal less about...

Roy Underhill, caretaker of The Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, N.C., sent me this photograph today from his school. Curious, don’t you think? What is going on here? Eight blindfolded woodworkers...

Apparently, the first thing one needs to do when they join the Popular Woodworking Magazine staff is build a workbench. I’m OK with that, as I’ve never really had an...

In the June 2011 issue we have Jim Tolpin building the “Ultimate Router Table.” Nah, just yanking your chain. He’s actually building a wombat house. Ha. Got you. In truth,...

Do you have an idea for a tool that could revolutionize hand-tool woodworking – or simply make a common operation safer, easier, more precise or faster? John Economaki, the founder...

  Taming the Wild Exer-Saw By Joe Johns Yes, it was a crisp autumn day indeed, however there are few days where I would consider the weather severe enough to...