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One of my hobbies is chairmaking. That statement might sound kinda dumb. After all, I’m a long-time woodworker and making wooden chairs is woodworking. No? No. Making stick chairs uses [...]

ROUTER BUSHING CALCULATOR   This spreadsheet is primarily focused at those woodworkers who design their own router templates.  It allows the user to build a library of his/her router [...]

You can now read our account of our visit to White Water Shaker Village on our web site in full. I’ll warn you, however, that words and photos do not describe what this place is like. [...]

In the tool world there is an ugly (and erroneous) slur. When one company copies the tool of another company, they call it a “cheap Chinese copy.” Never mind that the copy was almost [...]

      I just completed this last project, mobile privacy screens. Made out of pressure treated wood, they are 53’’-long and 43’’-high. I wanted them to be [...]

We’ve received many inquiries about the contents of our CD compilation, The Complete Guide to Routers. So here’s a list of some of the highlights you’ll find inside: Router [...]

Meet Master Craftsman Jim Ipekjian Sometimes my geekiness for the work designed by early 20th-century architects Charles and Henry Greene and made by Peter and John Hall isn’t obvious. At [...]

We’re received the much-anticipated new planes from Stanley Works and are beginning to set them up for a review in a future issue of the magazine. In the meantime, here are some of the [...]

Last week a reader posted a nice SketchUp drawing of a Roubo workbench that you can download (for free) from Google’s 3D Warehouse. The drawing features the Benchcrafted Wagon Vise and a [...]

Video – Burr Puzzles with Tim Johnson Project – 12 Drawer Dresser Shop Project – See plans for adding a shop-made router lift to this table Technique – Arched-top frame [...]

Volunteer craftsmen are working hard to restore the buildings in a little-known community of Shakers in southern Ohio.