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Mark your calendars and start saving your pennies. The 2011 Woodworking in America event will be Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2011, in Covington, Ky., at the same facility we used in 2010 (The Northern [...]

My brad points, which I bought at Manny’s. I still use them all the time. In 1993, I had just finished graduate school, had been accepted to law school and was working for a small magazine [...]

Resawn-Veneer Top Thick veneer and mitered edging make a top that last. By Tom Caspar Here’s one technique every budding furniture maker should know: how to make a framed top with thick, [...]

I’ve always held the No. 95 edge-trimming plane like a block plane. The lever cap faces up to the sky. The fence of the No. 95 is then vertical. So I was surprised to see a little tip in …

 At least that’s the way I do them.     I cut the tenons first, and then use them to layout the locations on the mortises.   Once I’ve mark where they will be,  I use a Marking guage [...]

BALSA WOOD. CHEAP AND EASY TO WORK WITH.MAKE THESE CARDS.BASIC CRAFT KNIFE / RULER / PENCIL / COPYDEX GLUE IS ALL THAT YOU NEED .PLUS YOUR IMAGINATION?!!  SHOW OFF YOUR HIDDEN TALENT.GIVE [...]

If you’ve ever met Dave Jeske at Blue Spruce Toolworks, then you don’t have to read the next sentence. You already know he is one of the nicest, most honest and talented toolmakers [...]

The February 2011 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is off to the printer. And I can safely say that it contains one of my three favorite articles we’ve published since I started here [...]

Tomorrow, Clark & Williams, which has been in business since 1996, will relaunch as a newly incorporated business called Old Street Tool, with Larry Williams and Don McConnell as the owners [...]

This past weekend (Dec. 4-5, 2010) 10 woodworkers came into the Popular Woodworking Magazine shop to work on their dovetails. Guys came in from the local vicinity and from outside the area, such [...]

Several people have asked if our historical reprint of “Elementary Turning for Use in Manual Training Classes” will include the original photos or drawings. Or if it will be a messy [...]

Despite the fact that I stink at turning, I still keep at it. Sharpening the tools is no problem. And I can make basic shapes. What vexes me is combining the shapes to create the spindles I want [...]