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Prepare your wood, pick the right glue and prevent problems. Baseball bats, utensils, turned items and small carved objects are usually made from one piece of wood. But most woodworking projects [...]

Bleeding, blushing, blotching, orange peel and fish eye. The basics of wood finishing are really quite simple: You use one of three tools – a rag, brush or spray gun – to transfer a liquid stain [...]

Christopher Schwarz once demonstrated a time-honored trick for hand-cutting tenon shoulders. After laying out the joint, he chiseled directly downward onto the shoulder cutline, then made a [...]

Online Extras for the October 2009 issue a PDF file of Marc Adam's tips for gluing, a SketchUp model of the Windsor Shop Stool, a 3D model of the Inlaid Bible Box project in SketchUp format, and [...]

Fifty years in the future, MDF will be a luxury ‘wood.’ By Pete Knapp Page: 72 From the October 2009 issue #178 Buy this issue now As if all the new tools and technology shown at this year’s [...]

By Glen D. Huey Page: 30 From the October 2009 issue #178 Buy this issue now Around my shop, if there is edge routing to be done, I reach for a trim router. The tool’s smaller size fits [...]

By Robert W. Lang Page: 30 From the October 2009 issue #178 Buy this issue now Traditional sharpening of cutting tools involves grinding, getting the tool shaped properly and honing, then [...]

The venerable tool company stages a comeback in the woodworking market. By Christopher Schwarz Page: 28 From the October 2009 issue #178 Buy this issue now It has been a long time since The [...]

By Christopher Schwarz Page: 10 From the October 2009 issue #178 Buy this issue now Nearly every woodworking book tells you the wrong way to purchase wood. There’s a formula where you multiply [...]