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Senior Editor Glen D. Huey and I cut dovetails in completely different ways. But we entirely agree on one point: People make the joint a lot more difficult than necessary....

This happens every year. Woodworkers are allowed to stop weeding the garden beds and are cut loose in the shop. The result: My e-mail inbox and voice mail inbox are...

Cutting joinery by hand isn’t a romantic journey to the charms of bygone days. For me, it’s a way to obtain better results in less time. I got tired of...

THESE CABLE TIES ARE HANDY IF YOUR CLAMPING EDGES.CHEAP TO BUY! AND MORE VERSITILE THAN A ORDINARY CLAMP.CLAMP PICTURE FRAMES /BOXES ECT. THESE COME IN LENGHTS UP TO 4 FT....

In a perfect world, styling and presentation wouldn’t be important. Or, at least, they would be less important than substance. I’ve been thinking about this since Saturday, courtesy of a...

While teaching at Roy Underhill’s school in Pittsboro, N.C., I spied this folding bookstand in the front of the school’s storefront. I’d seen the episode of “The [...]

When it comes to powered machinery, I’m a fan of using carbide inserts in the cutterhead instead of traditional straight knives. The cutters last longer, they do a better job...

Wear and tear on an old workbench is always interesting to me. Most of it is predictable and understandable – French marks on the benchtop, the occasional saw kerf in...

 That I re-cycled into a TV Table.      I had about eight pieces of 2x6s from an old, non-treated Pin-nic table.     I re-sawed some into useful [...]

In September I arrived to Purchase College to spend the semester as an Artist in Residence in applied design. I mentioned this in one of my previous blog posts and...

Sometimes when I write, I come to a question that paralyzes me – and I cannot continue until I get it answered. As a newspaper journalist, I was trained to...

This morning Chuck Bender from Acanthus Workshop stopped by the office on his way to deliver a piece of furniture to a client outside Cincinnati. After the traditional 15 minutes...