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“The best thing about DIW is that it’s open to all woodworkers, and winning an award—especially for the first time—really encourages participants to keep at it and enter again the [...]

As you will soon learn in your favorite magazine, I am building a chippendale chair. So naturally I’m looking at as many chairs as possible. I’ve had the opportunity to examine [...]

Veritas has just released its much-awaited Side Rabbet Plane (at a special introductory price) and Veritas was generous enough to permit me to test-drive it here in our workshop. Though I still [...]

Good news: One of the best books on making chairs is now back in print and available at a reasonable price. “The Chairmaker’s Workshop” by Drew Langsner has been selling for [...]

This block-front chest is from the Chippendale period, and is a superb example of what American craftsmen created hundreds of years ago.

Hoosier Cabinet Recreate and American icon. By Tim Johnson Eighty years ago, before built-in cabinets were common, every modern homemaker wanted a “Hoosier” cabinet in her kitchen. As a baking [...]

If you’ve been following my blog about the class at Marc Adams School of Woodworking (MASW), you’re waiting for photos from the last day of class. I will tell you that many of the [...]

My job lets me see a lot of cool woodshops, but even I’m jealous of an amazing journey that’s going on right now by British woodworker Stuart Page. Page recently graduated from a [...]

“There is something about the outside of a horse…that is good for the inside of a man.”, Attributed to Winston Churchill Whenever I start on a project, the most curious part is [...]

As promised, the guys in class had the early part of the day to complete mouldings and work on the sculpted bracket feet. Each woodworker laid out the feet from the provided pattern and drilled [...]

Ches in Nichols, N.Y. asked me via e-mail to post a photo of the project piece so readers could see what the project looks like when finished. That way he could track the progress of the class. [...]

My first fillister plane was so pathetic it’s a wonder I’m not the poster boy for DeWalt routers. But then, I don’t look so good in yellow. Mom says I’m a winter. Abut a [...]