Techniques

Rustic Picture Frame Picture this: your favorite family photo in a frame made of wood harvested from your own backyard. By Dave Munnkittrick Picture this: your favorite family photo in a frame [...]

Oops! Murphy's Laws of Woodworking Murphy’s Law states if anything can go wrong, it will. I’m convinced that axiom applies to woodworking. Here are several examples I’ve [...]

  Oops! Sanding Au Naturel   I’m so handy, I thought as I flipped over the board I had just sanded without stopping my belt sander. I simply lifted the sander out of the way with one [...]

I’ve been meaning to write up a review on Veritas replacement blades and cap irons for months, but every time I sat down to do it I realized that I didn’t have the tooling here at [...]

Ornamental turning is one of the fascinating corners of the woodworking craft. Once it was a craft reserved for kings, dukes and the obscenely wealthy. I’ve seen photos of turnings that required [...]

Jim Tolpin’s newest book, “The New Traditional Woodworker” teaches the reader how to work with hand tools by using them to build useful bench and shop tools. Each project builds [...]

This post in response to a question from reader Doug Smith about making bracket feet, as seen in the model of the American Cabinet in our 3D Warehouse Collection. SketchUp is extremely fast when [...]

This is a model of the Tusk-Tenon Bookrack published by Popular Woodworking in their issue #163 of August 2007.

This is a model of a reproduction of a rare Limbert Tabouret, constructed by editor Christopher Schwarz.

This is a model of a reproduction Limbert wastebasket featured in an article in the February 2000 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine.

This is a model of a Wright-inspired light fixture constructed by former senior editor David Thiel.

This is a model of the Simple Mission Side Chair.