Shellac: A Challenging Finish
This traditional finish can be tricky to apply. Editor’s note: The staff at Popular Woodworking received the news of Bob Flexner’s passing in December 2024 with heavy hearts. Bob was...
Precision Inlay, Simple Tools
A few shop-made appliances allow you to add stunning face-grain inlay to your work. Geometric bandings and inlay patterns, or parquetry, are widely used, from Japan to Egypt to Spain....
Why Furniture Stores Make Me Ill
In December I built a large traditional tool chest for my shop at home, and I couldn’t stop staring at the end grain of the wide pine planks I’d selected...
Easy Tool Rack
Swiped from a French engraving, this easy tool rack works in your shop or even in your kitchen. It’s good to keep your tools protected (think: tool chest). But it’s...
Gustav Stickley Morris Chair
Sit up straight. Or lean back and relax. This Gustav Stickley Morris chair is an icon of American furniture design with exposed joinery and solid quartersawn white oak. Reproduce an...
CSI: Tools
It’s hard to hide the loot when your wife has detective skills. I am a toolaholic. There, I’ve said it. I’ve admitted my weakness. I am in need of a...
Stickley No. 369 Morris Chair
This is a model of a reproduction of the Gustav Stickley No. 369 Morris Chair.
Bend the Laws of Lignum
SketchUp Update
As many of you have noticed, we are making improvements to the way you can view our free SketchUp models at Popular Woodworking Magazine. This feature has been enormously popular...
Gottshall Block-Complete and Ready to Grade
If there were an award for the most words per board foot in writing about woodworking, I believe that this series of posts about the Gottshall block would win. And...
Coping With Curves
Time for a show of hands. Have you ever said, “I can’t cut curves because I don’t have a band saw, a jig saw or an oscillating spindle sander?” If...
