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Friday of last week, Festool Product Manager, Rick Bush stopped by the Popular Woodworking Magazine shop with information about new tools coming from Festool. We got a look at the...

I confess: this project is not a fine woodworking piece… not at all! However, it is one of the first projects I crafted as a young adult. That said, I...

Back in my early days of working in my dad’s custom cabinet shop, we had a way of determining if the cabinet, table or chair was built adequately. If it...

If you had only one bench plane, it would be nice if that plane could do both roughing and smoothing chores. Woodworker John Wilson tackled that problem in our April...

I love “before” and “after” photos of things. This week I picked up a nice 3/16” side-bead plane from Josh Clark (aka Hyperkitten). The tool is a gem. The boxing...

The two companies haven’t merged (that’s so 1990s). Woodcraft stores are now going to carry Apollo Sprayer Turbine Systems and Conversion guns. The two companies are working closely to develop...

The good thing about the Internet is that you can find tons of information on nearly any subject in seconds. If you can’t find an answer to your specific question,...

Here’s a dirty little secret about pinners and brad nailers. Norm Abram isn’t the only woodworker to use them. Many of the guys I know who build reproduction furniture –...

I’ve been working on a coffee table build for what seems like years. Now that I’m in the closing stages, I went back to look at the first photos I...

Getting the four feet of a sawbench, chair or stool all in the same plane is a challenge for some woodworkers. You can end up nibbling a bar stool into...

FORGET RUBIKS CUBE ?HOW ABOUT RUBIKS IN A CUBE.?WHICH IS THE MORE IMPOSSIBLE ?

THE ALL AMERICAN BASEBALL IN A SOLID CUBE.I THINK THIS WOULD MAKE A NICE TALKING PIECE FOR ANY BASEBALL CLUB IN YOUR COUNTRY.