Many woodworkers relish the time spent alone in the shop, toiling over our work – but that doesn’t mean woodworking has to be done in isolation, relying only on musty old books or knowledge passed down from our forebears (not that it isn’t useful!). A quick search of the Internet shows there are plenty of folks writing about their experiences in the shop – some of them on a daily basis. The blogs linked below are ones in which you’ll find solid woodworking information, entertaining writing and, in most cases, both. Why so many? Well, in the world of Internet woodworking, there’s at least one blog that will appeal to you…and others that won’t. Bookmark accordingly.
- 1910 Craftsman
- American Federal Period
- Anthony Hay’s Cabinetmaker
- Benchcrafted
- Billy’s Little Bench
- By Hand & Eye (George Walker & Jim Tolpin)
- The Blokeblog
- Bob Easton’s Blog
- Cabin Woodworks
- Chairs and More by Jeff Miller
- Charles Brock on Chairmaking
- Close Grain
- Combray Furniture Studio
- Daed Toolworks
- David Charlesworth
- English Woodworker
- Evenfall Woodworks
- Full Chisel Blog by Stephen Shepherd
- The Furniture Record
- Giant Cypress
- Half-inch Shy
- Heartwood
- Homestead Heritage
- Inside the Oldwolf Workshop
- Joel Moskowitz
- John Economaki at Bridge City
- Juan Vergara Infill Handplanes
- Karl Holtey of Holtey Planes
- Lost Art Press
- M.S. Bickford’s Blog on Toolmaking
- Matt’s Basement Workshop
- McGlynn on Making
- Mesquite St Woodshop
- Mike Dunbar’s The Windsor Institute Blog
- Mulesaw
- Musings from the Workbench
- Pegs and Tails
- Peter Follansbee
- Peter Galbert’s Chair Notes
- Philadelphia Furniture Workshop
- Philsville
- Rainford Restorations
- Renaissance Woodworker
- Rockler Woodworking Blog
- Ron Brese at Brese Plane
- Ron Hock’s Sharpening Blog
- Rude Mechanicals Press
- Sandal Woods
- Sauer & Steiner Blog
- Smoky Mountain Woodworks
- The Kilted Woodworker
- The Refined Edge
- The Renaissance Woodworker
- The Unplugged Workshop
- The Village Carpenter
- The Wood Whisperer
- Toolemera
- Toolerable
- Upper Cut Woodworks
- Wenzloff & Sons
- Woodworks Library
- Workbenchdesign.net
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