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Resawn-Veneer Top Thick veneer and mitered edging make a top that last. By Tom Caspar Here’s one technique every budding furniture maker should know: how to make a framed top...

I’ve always held the No. 95 edge-trimming plane like a block plane. The lever cap faces up to the sky. The fence of the No. 95 is then vertical. So...

 At least that’s the way I do them.     I cut the tenons first, and then use them to layout the locations on the mortises.   Once I’ve mark where they will...

BALSA WOOD. CHEAP AND EASY TO WORK WITH.MAKE THESE CARDS.BASIC CRAFT KNIFE / RULER / PENCIL / COPYDEX GLUE IS ALL THAT YOU NEED .PLUS YOUR IMAGINATION?!!  SHOW OFF YOUR...

If you’ve ever met Dave Jeske at Blue Spruce Toolworks, then you don’t have to read the next sentence. You already know he is one of the nicest, most honest...

The February 2011 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is off to the printer. And I can safely say that it contains one of my three favorite articles we’ve published since...

Tomorrow, Clark & Williams, which has been in business since 1996, will relaunch as a newly incorporated business called Old Street Tool, with Larry Williams and Don McConnell as the...

Several people have asked if our historical reprint of “Elementary Turning for Use in Manual Training Classes” will include the original photos or drawings. Or if it will be a...

Despite the fact that I stink at turning, I still keep at it. Sharpening the tools is no problem. And I can make basic shapes. What vexes me is combining...

Whenever I teach a class, at least one student will say to me “you really don’t like measuring, do you?” I don’t dislike measuring, but I try to avoid it...

My first workshop was the 6′ x 10′ back porch of our Victorian home in Lexington, Ky. The floor sloped dramatically thanks to termites, and the the whole place reeked...

 Another table style i like to make, this one a Shaker Style table.    About 24"x 24" top, a small, simple drawer, and some hand tapered legs.  The drawer does not...