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On December 16, I wrote that I was attempting a Pennsylvania spice box build with a string-and-berry inlaid door, in an insane time frame (without access to the Popular Woodworking Magazine [...]

Mom, if you’re reading this — SPOILER ALERT — Go read something else. When my mother read Chuck Bender’s “Chester County Style” article in our December 2011 issue, she [...]

The CD compilation of all seven issues Popular Woodworking Magazine 2011 is now in stock at ShopWoodworking.com. Order by Tuesday, Dec. 13 and choose UPS ground, and it will get to you in time [...]

Just a reminder to those who are shopping for woodworking-related gifts (or nudging others toward woodworking-related gifts for you): today is the last day ShopWoodworking.com guarantees delivery [...]

Today, I picked up desk copies of “Furniture in the Southern Style: 27 Shop Drawings of Furniture from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts” – which is great news because that [...]

When I was planning my “petite Roubo” 18 months ago or so, the original idea that Christopher Schwarz and I cooked up was to use one slab of wood for an 18″ to 20″-wide [...]

This weekend, in addition to eating far too many leftovers, I curled up on my couch with my cats and the February 2012 Popular Woodworking Magazine binder – and despite my prodigious intake of [...]

Attention all digital subscribers: When your e-mail to download the issue arrives (which should be later today or early tomorrow), you’ll have the option for two versions. One has a video [...]

Those of you who routinely send me e-mails when I write about something “not woodworking related,” stop reading. You will not be amused – even though this involves a sharp blade and [...]

The prosecution asserts that woodworkers shouldn’t use cutlists, because it’s virtually impossible to cut all pieces for a project to size, then assemble it and have everything fit [...]

If you read the woodworking message boards and blogs, you’ve likely read a little bit about Christopher Schwarz’s latest book, “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” (Lost Art [...]

I’ve just received Adam Cherubini’s Arts & Mysteries column for the February 2012 issue, and I’m delighted that he’s written about boarded furniture – one of his [...]