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In our eMail newsletter, I wrote that I was finally taking home my pine “petite Roubo” (which is basically the same bench featured on Christopher Schwarz’s video “Build an [...]

I have always waited for and dreaded the day when someone made a commercial workbench that I would consider buying. That day might (almost) be here. This week I am...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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