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When I first started working here at the magazine we actually had time to go out for lunch each week (we now eat at our desks), and one day after...

Some of my favorite times are when I get out of the office and teach classes on using SketchUp. If you thoroughly understand what you’re going to build, before you...

I’m just about to resaw my maple version of Roubo’s Folding Bookstand that’s based on Roy Underhill’s article, and I made a full-size pattern of the elevation of the project....

Can Facebook be a design tool?…. well it depends…  Recently I needed to decide on the most interesting board orientation for the table top I was building in Purchase College....

I try to be helpful when readers have a question, but there is one question I’m often asked that I usually refuse to answer. The question relates to some project...

We are currently at work on our June 2011 issue, which we have dubbed “The Bookcase Issue,” and it is the first jab at steering the magazine’s content so that...

After making the down-and-dirty folding bookstand in a video last week, I decided to make another pair as a very late Christmas gift. I am not a good friend. These...

The news of a blog from Colonial Williamsburg’s Hay Cabinetshop has already been received with a smirk about “irony”. I knew it was only a matter of time. When will...

There are three spots still open in the “precision sawing” class I’m teaching at Roy Underhill’s school this summer – July 18-20. The classes I teach at The Woodwright’s School...

Among my students last semester was one of the worlds best turners, and arguably the best turning teacher I have met. During this term Andy was more my teacher than...

For those of you who live in holes (which may be a fair percentage of all 5 of my readers), I thought I’d mention that the guys in the Hay...

Perhaps the bookstand article called for more matter and less art. My director once joked about my PBS efforts as being a “woodworking show – and less!” And it’s true...