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The first time I taught at Roy Underhill’s school in Pittsboro, N.C., Roy made sure that I met Peter Ross, a blacksmith who worked at Colonial Williamsburg for 25 years. We all ate dinner at gas [...]

One of the questions that every student asked during my bench-building class last week at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking was: Where should I put my holes? It sounds like a deeply personal [...]

Installing vises in workbenches is always a finicky process – unless you go for a super-simple setup like the one I prefer: A quick-release vise for the end vise and a simple leg vise for the [...]

This is a model of a Nicholson Workbench feature in an article in the June 2007 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine.

When I walked into the shop at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking this morning at 8:24 a.m., the place was a wreck. The students were fitting their joints among piles of shavings and sawdust [...]

This is my Roubo Design based very heavily on Christopher Schwarz Design from his book "Workbenches from Design & Theory to Construction and Use".

This is a model of the cover project from the August 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine

This is a model of a specialized workbench to be used in hand-cutting wood working joints.

The problem with Wednesdays at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking is that Kelly and Teri are a bit too nice to the students and instructors. That’s the evening when the Mehlers shut down the [...]

This is a model of a laminated veneer lumber workbench featured in an article in the November 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking magazine.

This is a woodworking model, each entity is a seperate component that can be measured and manipulated individually.

This is a woodworking model, each entity is a seperate component.