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Thursday was my day at AWFS 2009 to stop by SawStop and catch up with Mark Pennington, marketing director. He shared a few things about SawStop’s new Professional Cabinet Saw (PCS) and [...]

There are always new products introduced at AWFS and this year is no different. Because I ran into so many items, I’m going to give you a quick-hit review of a number of them rather than [...]

The big news at the AWFS show came from a Canadian company. General International announced plans to restructure and expand into the United States to improve its operations in the lower 48. The [...]

I’m in Las Vegas right now at the AWFS show (Association of Woodworking and Furnishing Suppliers). As a furniture guy, I gravitate toward the Fresh Wood competition held every other year at [...]

My grandfather’s workbench had an adhesive rule stuck to its front edge, which was extremely useful when woodworking. You could check part dimensions without pulling out a tape measure or [...]

   Here is the completed cut of a face frame made with the jigsaw. Since I’m using the pattern guide to trace the decorative cuts, both hutches will be identical.   [...]

In anticipation of making this chair, I carved several ball and claw feet and several full legs, including one with the knee returns attached. I’m a firm believer in practice. But it [...]

IN BETWEEN SORTING WORKSHOP OUT MADE THIS FOR A SHOW PIECE FOR FUTURE ORDERS SO CUSTOMERS CAN SEE WHAT I CAN DO FOR A GIFT THEY MAY HAVE IN MIND THAT THEY CANNOT BUY ELSEWHERE.THEY CAN ORDER WHAT [...]

Last week Andrew Lunn of Eccentric Toolworks announced he was going to remove some of the decorative details on his saws and pass the savings onto his customers. This week we got our first look [...]

I need to correct a grave error. In January I published a list of my favorite woodworking writers, but I neglected to include my all-time dearest , probably because her work should be shipped in [...]

For as long as I can remember, I’ve stood on my soapbox to urge woodworkers to use a toothbrush to spread glue when edge joining two pieces of lumber. A toothbrush is plenty wide enough to [...]

Senior Editor Glen D. Huey was out of the office last week, purportedly teaching a class on building a tea table at Acanthus Workshops. But on Friday, I got a photo via e-mail from Chuck Bender [...]