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If you are having trouble with the Roubo’s Folding Bookstand article from the February 2011 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I urge you to attempt to lay out the joints...

TURNED FROM A OFFCUT OF OF A LOG,THIS WOOD I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS AS I BOUGHT A SACK OF LOGS FOR £5 IT HAD A MIXTURE IN.....

THIS TOOK A BIT LONGER TO DO AS ITS NOT A STRAIGHT SPANNER,HOLE IS 1/4 INCH AND SHAFT IS 1/4 INCH. ONE END IS 5/8  AND OTHER IS 9/16 OVERALL.AS...

THE HOLE IN THIS DONNAY BALL IS 3/8 INCH! THIS IS A SOLID CORE UNLIKE SOME BALLS THAT HAVE RUBBER IN THEM!!.WHICH IS NOT SAFE TO DRILL  AS THEY ARE...

When I released my Compwood arm bows from the clamps this morning, I saw a little bit of springback. It was less than I’d get with other bending techniques, but...

While at Purchase College I taught a class labeled "Applied Design". What we did was to go through a ratcheted-up four assignment curricular that culminated in designing and building a...

In the mid-1860s a carpenter in Sussex, England named Ephraim Colman had a brilliant idea, to make a chair with an adjustable back. The idea was sketched by Warrington Taylor,...

My show's opening is tomorrow at Purchase College's Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery. Eleven pieces altogether, five of them are new, from the last four months on campus; two are...

“In painting” is a term museum conservators use for touching up “losses”, areas now missing, from antique paintings or other objects. As far as I know, it isn’t [...]

THESE ARE WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH PALLETS.THIS IS AROUND A ALLOTMENT. SPRAY IT WITH TANALISER,THESE WILL LAST YEARS. ABOUT £25 WORTH OF PALLETS THERE OR ABOUT 40 DOLLARS YOUR...

One of the most-popular projects I made last year was the Moxon Double-screw Vise from the December 2010 issue. It’s popularity was eclipsed only by the Handplane Birdhouse in the...

After not burning down the city with my lightbulb-in-a-box scheme, my first CompWood armbow dropped to 8 percent moisture content overnight. I removed it from its form and put one...