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Q & A: Anti-Kickback Router Bits Q: I’ve noticed some router bits are available with an “anti-kickback” feature. If this works, this seems like a great thing. Does it? [...]

I’ve really enjoyed getting acquainted with our digital downloads line during these first months on the job, so I thought I’d do a quick rundown of some favorites. Perhaps this list [...]

One of our favorite authors, Toshio Odate, is featured in an article in our October 2013 issue. In the story, Toshio relates his experience as an apprentice in Japan and builds a latticed entry [...]

The cover project for our October 2013 issue is my reproduction build of a Shaker blanket chest that’s at the White Water Shaker Village in southwest Ohio; the original was likely built at [...]

MY NEW FLYER A 6 AND BUSINESS CARD . ALL DONE ON MY COMPUTER. TOOK A WHILE TO DO AS HAD IDEAS FOR OTHER STYLE FLYER. BUT AFTER SOME FEED BACK THIS IS THE END PRODUCT .…

THESE ARE ALL MADE FROM OFF CUTS OF TIMBER FROM LOCAL SAW MILL. THE OFF CUTS VARY FROM 4X2 T0 8X1 WHICH THEY CUT OFF TO SQUARE TIMBER UP . SOME WERE SPLIT SOME HAD SHAKES .NO GOOD TO THEM …

The bbq made from beer kegs .Stainless steel keg made into a unique BBQ. This will be guaranteed a lifetime in all weathers .When finished just wash and store . Everything is stainless steel even [...]

If I told you that shooting a woodworking DVD is hard work you’d probably laugh. It sounds like a supermodel complaining about a photo shoot for the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. So I won’t [...]

Woodworking in America 2013 is October 18-20 at the Northern Kentucky Convention center. It’s three days of woodworking fun and education sessions (47 of them!), plus two days of the [...]

Getting a good workbench usually takes loads of money, time or both of those things. But what if you tried to be really clever and you used inexpensive construction and home renovation materials [...]

I’m in the midst of pulling together all the many blog posts and articles we’ve written on saws and sawing in the last 12 years (look for the book “Handsaw Essentials” [...]

The furniture I grew up with was a mix of Shaker style furniture and mid-century Scandinavian (direct from Sweden, where my folks lived in the 1970s). The woodwork and cabinetry was American [...]