The Drawer Book – Excerpt

A drawer alone — just an open box — is an oddity. For it to work as intended, it has to be installed in a case in a way that allows it to be opened and closed. In this excerpt from [...]

SketchUp at Woodworking in America

How You Can HelpThe Woodworking in America: Furniture Design and Construction conference is just a few weeks away. We’re all looking forward to the conference and the opportunity to spend [...]

garden table

JUST FINISHED TABLE FOR GARDEN .THIS IS MADE FROM 90MM X 40 MM CLS TIMBER.ALL I GOT TO DO NOW IS SAND IT THEN TREAT IT WITH BOILED LINSEED OIL. NEXT I AM GOING TO MAKE 2 BENCHES TO MATCH …

Three (Unoriginal) Sharpening Tips

Some things about sharpening everyone knows (it’s two metal surfaces, an abrasive and friction). Other things nobody knows (such as the best system ever). And there is a third category of [...]

Guess the Avatar

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner: Congrats to Craig Parker. Answers are at the bottom. We’re in the midst of a cover test for the October issue of Popular Woodworking (you can cast [...]

Rethinking Carcase Saws

We’ve been testing six carcase saws for the Autumn 2009 issue of Woodworking Magazine. And while I can’t share the results of the test with you just yet, I want to share some of the [...]

Bicycles, Routers and a Homemade Lathe

Once again, I said yes to a friend (it seems I say yes to lots of my friends) who wanted me to duplicate some woodworking in a house he is rehabing. This time it was something I’ve never [...]

CHUCK

WHILE SORTING OUT WORKSHOP FOUND THIS SCREW CHUCK I MADE A FEW YEARS AGO.A BIT RUSTY BUT STILL WORKS. AS TO THE 3 HOLES THEY WERE DONE ON A INDEX TABLE TO GET THE HOLES PERFECT . AND THE SCREW …

Old School How To

We all know that there has been a tremendous revival in hand tools. I learned to work with wood in the early 1970s, and the old geezers I worked with would sometimes head for the joiner, and [...]

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