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The Covid-19 pandemic has effected nearly everyone, in one way or another. And we know that being stuck at home, away from friends and family has been hard on everyone. That’s why Popular [...]

Here’s an outdoor chair that you can build in a weekend, or if you are willing to take David Thiel’s word for it, in four hours! It’s made of pine and common materials, stuff [...]

Various methods are used to create an ellipse. The method shown here, often called the trammel method, is relatively simple and you can use it to make an ellipse of just about any size.

I wanted to use my benchtop belt sander as a safe and accurate way to grind my hand tools. By adding a little extension table that is co-planar with the sanding surface, I can use my honing [...]

Advanced Bandsaw Techniques Sponsored by Rikon Tools Most shops have a bandsaw, but they frequently don’t get the chance to show off their many capabilities. In our new six-part weekly [...]

Milling Your Own Lumber Sponsored by Wood-Mizer. Finding affordable lumber has always been a mainstay for woodworkers, and when you tie our dwindling natural resources into the conversation the [...]

Popular Woodworking is proud to be the home of The Woodwright Shop’s video library, stretching back to Episode 1 from 1980, and I’m happy to share that we now have Season 34 available [...]

Woodworkers love routers and router tables. And why not?! Routers are shockingly versatile tools when being used handheld, but when you mount one in a table, all sorts of new and improved uses [...]

There are lots of jokes about things you can just stare at for hours without really engaging your brain. Cat videos come to mind and dozens of television programs, but I’m talking about [...]

One of my woodworking instructors years ago liked to reassure students by saying “Anyone can build furniture, but it takes real skill to fix mistakes.” Here’s how I went about [...]

Mr. Robinson saw the signs in 1967, and I lived it in the 70’s building restaurant fixtures and lots of furniture out of plastic laminates. Laminates were everywhere. Durable, colorful, [...]

Finding a paying job as a woodworker is one of those tricky negotiations. Working in a woodworking business or owning your own business sound attractive, but we all know there are risks and [...]