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Those of you who’ve been reading our Editors’ Blog for more than a week or so know that I like cats (3.75 of ’em in my house). And books (thousands). So, when a Facebook friend [...]

  I find it curious that, more than a year after the November 2009 issue, I’m suddenly getting a spate of questions about the LVL Knockdown Workbench Editor Christopher Schwarz and I [...]

I’ve been working on a coffee table build for what seems like years. Now that I’m in the closing stages, I went back to look at the first photos I took; that was in mid-October of [...]

It’s Sunday, and I’m in the shop pursuing enlightment through dovetailing as I work on the drawers for my coffee table. While dovetail Nirvana it still some steps away, I’ve [...]

If you have a yen to get into the shop but don’t have much time, take a look at the three “I Can Do That” projects I’ve just posted – they’re simple enough that they [...]

The April 2011 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine will wend its way into the general mail stream beginning next week, so here’s a look at some of what’s inside, to whet your [...]

Last week, I had the inestimable pleasure of spending a few hours with Don Williams, senior furniture conservator for the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) at the [...]

Never bring an apron plane to do a jack plane’s job. — Megan Fitzpatrick…

We’ve just sent our latest Popular Woodworking Magazine DVD collection to the replicator. On it, you’ll find 11 years of the magazine, plus a PDF of “Exercises in [...]

We just received our office copies of the February 2011 issue, and that means it will soon be on its way to subscribers. And for your (pre)viewing pleasure, we have all but two of the Online [...]

I did not want to build the “I Can Do That” project for the February 2011 issue. As my co-workers can attest, I grumbled about it for a good three weeks before I got started…and [...]

This morning, I spent a few hours in the shop fitting tenons for a coffee table and gluing up the base. Obviously, I need to make and install a web frame and the drawers (which, if everything is [...]