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I don’t know how I missed this! We’ve updated the “FAQs” on our (DRM-free) digital subscriptions, and someone snuck in a new (and long-awaited) question and answer: [...]

The link to download the February 2013 issue just went out to digital subscribers…and there’s a wee error in it – so you’ll be getting another e-mail, with that wee error [...]

I’m in the midst of making my mom’s Christmas present*, and though I did the machine work at the “office” today, I decided to bring the surfaced and mortised pieces home [...]

This evening, I whiled away an hour leafing through “The Wise Practical Home Furniture Builder: Simple Plans for the Amateur Craftsman,” a book from 1952 that is similar to the I Can [...]

Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine has in its winter 2012 issue honored Ron Hock’s “The Perfect Edge” (Popular Woodworking) and Christopher Schwarz’s “The [...]

A largely intact joiners’ shop from the 18th century has recently been “discovered” at the Berrybrook School in Duxbury, Mass. I put the word discovered in quotation marks, [...]

It’s the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and I have a messy house…with guests arriving on Thursday. I should be cleaning. But I started that chore in the study/shop with the intent of at [...]

Happy 30th anniversary (a month or so in advance) to Grizzly Industrial. The company was founded in 1983 by Shiraz Balolia – who has a fascinating and award-winning hobby of Olympic proportions [...]

Christopher Schwarz’s new DVD, “Super-Tune a Handplane: How to turn a flea-market find into a fast, accurate and smooth-cutting tool,” is now available in our store for [...]

Our new-ish online editor, Tom Nunlist, started a little less that a year ago, and took like a Kentuckian to bourbon in his “real” job, which is to handle the backend of the web site, [...]

Heather Trosdahl’s article in the Dec. 2012 issue, “Parquetry Tabletop,” requires shop-sawn veneers for the best results. In case sawing one’s own veneer is a technique [...]

Ron Hock, owner of Hock Tools and author of “The Perfect Edge,” and his wife, Linda Rosengarten are off to Brooklyn, N.Y., for vacation, but they’ll be spending the afternoon of October 25 [...]