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How to read more about the Woodworking in America conference in Berea, Ky., with links to stories, photos and video.

The handplaning jigs are packed and ready to load on the truck Thursday morning. Only one more restless night in bed, and I’ll be headed down to our Woodworking in America conference in [...]

Tricks of the trade is one of our most popular regular columns. In each issue, we print the best ideas submitted by our readers for making life in the shop easier. Every trick we publish is [...]

With Thanksgiving just around the bend, the pressure is looming for one of the hardest jobs of the year , holiday shopping. I’m not sure which is more difficult ,choosing what to purchase [...]

A couple weeks back we were up to our armpits in finishing work. Two projects were in the finishing area awaiting completion for photo shoots this past Wednesday. (I’m happy to report that [...]

In the subscriber issues of December 2008 Popular Woodworking, there was an insert glued to page 25, and it seems our printer used a super-strong adhesive that didn’t allow easy removal. [...]

Our 2008 crop of Best New Tools includes a dozen offerings that are unique, innovative or look at an old tool in a whole new way (or sometimes all three).

Although a band saw is rarely the first stationary power tool purchased for a shop, it is one of the most versatile.

When Colonial Wiilamsburg made saws for the Anthony Hay Cabinetshop they chose not to file any of them cross cut. The reason, says Master Cabinetmaker Mack Headley, is that there simply is no [...]

Find your credit card. You know the one. It’s one your spouse always hides when you get caught reading my blog. Auriou, the venerable French toolmaker that closed it doors last year after a [...]

My puny 8′-long English workbench is starting to feel like an apartment-sized dinette set. Why? Check out this 12′-long version of that same bench design that boatbuilder Bob Easton [...]

Woodworkers can spend a lot of time perfecting a finish for their projects, when often a simple finish will serve just as well.  Shellac with a  wax topcoat is one such finish.