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This week the winner of the Wood Talk Online (WTO), Acanthus Workshops and Popular Woodworking contest was announced. Congratulations to David Cloutier of Derry, N.H. He is in the process of [...]

Blacksmith David Maydole was the SawStop of the 19th century. Sometimes hammerheads would fly loose from their handles on the job site. This could be troublesome or deadly because occasionally [...]

A few weeks ago I made some people upset by hitting some handplanes with a hammer in this video to see what they were made of. In the “test” I destroyed a junky Stanley No. 3. Today I [...]

Tell me you didn’t stop to read this entry thinking there might be some YouTube video on how to cut lasagna (actually there is a video, but it’s not worth the trip to view it).  [...]

If you’d like to do a little time traveling on your lunch hour today, I’ve got just the ticket. Head over to Gary Robert’s Toolemera Press site and download (for free) [...]

Anyone who has worked with me for about five minutes knows that I really like chamfers on my work. Stop chamfers, such as those found on early English and American work, are particularly [...]

It’s been interesting to make a drawer from MDF, plywood and pine. I am constantly amazed at the amout of scrap wood I have lying about my shop, garage and shed. I recently moved to a [...]

Because of my unholy obsession with interest in workbenches, people send me photos of the beautiful benches they’ve built. They’re like baby photos, and I keep them all. Sometimes, [...]

The March 18th, 2009 edition of Wood Talk Online (WTO) is a program you’ll want to tune-in to hear. As you may remember, we , the hosts of WTO, the head honcho at Acanthus Workshops and the [...]

If don’t show up for work tomorrow, it’s because the Asian plywood industry has taken out a contract on my life. But here’s the truth: All of the Asian plywood I’ve [...]

Raymond McInnis is an amateur woodworker and scholar of woodworking history who maintains the web site woodworkinghistory.com. At his site, you’ll find “A Decade-by-Decade Narrative [...]

When Senior Editor Robert W. Lang asked me to provide a list of my favorite woodworking books, I quickly agreed thinking it would be an easy assignment. That should have been the first clue that [...]