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If I were to built the bench again, I would have not added a decorated finials to the wooden nuts that anchors the lag screws. The finials allowed me to easily rotate the nuts right [...]

SILLY PUZZLE BUT AMUSING AND BAFFLING.???!!! 2 X 1/4 INCH  X 3 INCH WIDE X 6 INCH LONG WITH 2 X  1 INCH HOLES .JUST PASSING AWAY MY SUNDAY. …

THIS IS MADE FROM ALL THE ODDS AND ENDS OF TIMBER I KEEP FROM 1 INCH LONG TO 12 INCHES LONG . THIS I MACHINED TO 3/8 SQUARE!! OK I COULD OF BURNT IT ON AN OPEN FIRE?? BUT I MAKE BETTER [...]

One of the earliest machines I remember Dad having in the shop , besides a table saw and a radial arm saw , is a 12″ disc sander. I hated to change the disc on that thing. Peel the …

Though statistics vary, it seems on average that 10 percent of the population is left-handed. So here’s a little experiment for all you right-handers (and one that shocked both Glen Huey [...]

Note to self: Do not drink coffee whilst reading e-mail. A note this morning from Emily (you may remember her from the Norm Abram lookalike contest) made me spit coffee onto my keyboard. [...]

The first real woodworking project I built in the USA was a pine workbench. The story of this piece began with a discarded metal cabinet I found on Irving street in Cambridge MA. I mention Irving [...]

I hope by now you have received your August 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. If not, purchase a copy here, or run to the nearest bookstore to indulge. When you do open the magazine, [...]

RIPLEYS HAVE RECEIVED MY PUZZLES/ILLUSIONS.? THIS IS THEIR REPLY . Morning Dusty—the package arrived yesterday…thank you…..we have a display case in our office front lobby and [...]

        Oneway’s new 1224 lathe costs $1,850. That’s a lot of dough,but for the money, you get the stability and slow-speed power that’s [...]

    Woodtek’s coupling skirt ($30) makes it easier to dispose of the dust your collector collects. It adapts your 2- or 3-hp dust collector to a metal trash [...]

    Laser-guided saws keep getting better. Delta’s newest 12-in. compound-miter saw features a double-laser system. According to the manufacturer, the two beams show the [...]