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Bird table fom pallets and black slate tiles from a skip ? WASTE NOT WANT NOT?   …

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THIS IS THE KITY 5 MACHINE EXCEPT I ADDED LARGER MOTOR   …

  Two mistakes, one after the other.         When I cut the shelves for the base cabinets of the hutches, I omitted the sub-top shelf on which the top shelf will be screwed [...]

FIRE PLACE SURROUND MADE FROM MORE PALLET WOOD  WASTE NOT WANT NOT AS YOU CAN SEE ITS VERY SATISFYING DOING IT FROM PALLET WOOD AS MOST PALLETS ARE FREE THIS WAS FROM A 6 X4 FT PALLET I [...]

On Wednesday morning the entire staff of the magazine crowded around a handmade door in an early 19th-century structure as our guide fiddled with a padlock on the door. A couple clicks later the [...]

I built a customer-ordered Shaker chest of drawers that I planned to deliver over the holiday weekend. Because this project is a future Popular Woodworking article, I had to get an [...]

A curved cutting edge is critical to most operations with your bench planes. The curve prevents the corners of the iron from digging into your work, and it allows you to correct the flatness of [...]

I like a good carcase saw in the same way I like to eat most parts of the pig. I like the way that its well-tuned crosscut teeth slice into the grain and leave behind a glassy smooth cut. I …

I remember the first time I saw a picture of the clock at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C. It was a reproduction in the Stickley catalog. I looked at the picture of the clock in the catalog [...]

The little side-clamp honing guide is my favorite bit of sharpening equipment. But it frequently is criticized for two shortcomings: – It is poorly made and sloppily painted. So you have to [...]

A 1982 interview with woodworking icon Sam Maloof.