Techniques

The finest maker of handmade rasps and rifflers has closed its factory in Saint-Juery, France, after a protracted labor struggle with its workers, according to a release from Michel Auriou. The [...]

Sometimes your woodworking improves like a slow and steady climb up a mountain. Sometimes, however, you get to ride the elevator. When I first started woodworking, I used a carpenter’s [...]

I consider myself fortunate to share the Popular Woodworkingshop with two world-class woodworkers , Christopher Schwarz and Glen D. Huey. After many years of working mostly by myself, it’s [...]

Whenever I get into some serious handwork, I always try to boil down the processes so that I can 1) remember it myself and 2) occasionally explain it to others (including a couple children who [...]

“But lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.”– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), “Walden” When I started building furniture on my back porch after college, I [...]

I know it might be hard to believe, but some days I’m glad I’m not a pirate. For the last couple weeks, I’ve been discussing the role of your dominant and recessive eye , and [...]

I enjoy a good beating. Chopping dovetails or mortises is almost as pleasurable as sawing or planing. So, as you can imagine, I’m picky about my mallet. For years I tried to make myself [...]

Let’s talk about the historical and controversial scrub plane. First a little history, then the controversy. Whenever I talk about the fore plane, the handplane used to get boards to rough [...]

You have a dominant eye and a recessive eye (assuming you still have both eyes , and not three). And that fact can make your life as a sawyer a lot easier , or a lot harder. If your dominant …

Most woodworkers I know aspire to cut their dovetails by hand. It is, for many of us, a self-imposed rite of passage to good craftsmanship. I’ve always tried not to encourage this attitude, [...]

        Walnut Bookcase  by Bill Groff, Metamora, IL "I spent this last winter (and Spring and part of the Summer!)building a larger version of the bookcase that [...]

Page 1 2 3   OAK ENTERTAINMENT CENTER Red oak solid and plywood, aniline dyes and polyurethane. Tim Raml Baltic, SD  “The doors for the entertainment center are mortise and [...]