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I’m packing up all the tools I’ll need in North Carolina for the coming week, and I was a bit shocked this morning as I went through my checklist. One of the “Woodwright’s [...]

I know I am going to get flack for this, but I cannot help myself. Last week we received two copies of a cool new book in the mail , “500 Cabinets: A Showcase of Design & [...]

eBay brought a world of items to our computers for us to purchase. Craigslist, like eBay, has millions of items listed for sale, but the items are closer to home , actually within your home area. [...]

Robert W. Lang shows his table saw technique for cutting Greene & Greene-style finger joints on a drawer. The finished drawer will help complete the "Arts & Crafts Buffet" [...]

Robert W. Lang and Glen D. Huey compare three methods for gluing mortises. This video accompanies the article "Where Does the Glue Go?" published in the October 2010 issue of [...]

Last week WGBH released a trailer for “Rough Cut , Woodworking with Tommy Mac,” the newest woodworking show coming from Boston’s PBS network. Links to the trailer were posted on [...]

Photo courtesy of Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Department of Entomology The American ash tree is under attack from the emerald ash borer, the American chestnut has been all but wiped out by [...]

Isshi Yamada never said much to me when I was dating his daughter in college. To us Western students who studied Eastern religions, he was an enigmatic Zen Buddhism professor who was famous for [...]

Restore a Chest of Drawers Make broken-down drawers fit and work like new. By Tim Johnson At first glance, the broken-down chest of drawers (at left) looks like a lost cause—a wreck even by [...]

In a perfect world (or shop), when you walk in to start on a project all your tools are in their proper place, the floor is swept and you can dive right in. In the real world (my garage shop, …

The easiest projects to make are those you’ve built once before. Most woodworkers only tackle furniture projects once in a lifetime and then move on to something else. So the next best [...]

I leave for North Carolina this week to shoot two episodes of “The Woodwright’s Shop” with Roy Underhill then teach a three-day class on handsawing at Underhill’s little [...]