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Don Williams is a conservator, educator, scholar and all-around inquisitive guy (and also the owner of more than 40 sets of suspenders). He is co-author of the book “Saving Stuff,” [...]

A few weeks ago, we had a “Caption the Photo” contest, for which we received nigh-on 200 entries , so many, in fact, that out server kept timing out when I tried to view them in [...]

A few of us have been kvetching lately about tired, aching feet after a long day in our concrete-floored shop. (Still, I’d rather have sore feet than a sore butt from sitting in front of [...]

A few days ago, I took a poll to see what should be done with my decades-old, ugly (but functional) L-bracket-built bookcases. Frankly, I’m surprised the chain-saw option wasn’t more [...]

As Editor Christopher Schwarz and I were leaving to get coffee at lunchtime today, a big panel truck pulled up to our loading dock , so we hightailed it to Chris’s car. But Senior Editor [...]

SWF in search of the perfect clamp rack. Willing and easily able to relocate a plus. Must be robust but have a svelte figure. Should be able to handle a lot of baggage, but be as simple as my [...]

I’m at Bosch in Mount Prospect, Ill., (just outside Chicago) where I and other magazine editors are getting a look at some of the new tools the company will be unveiling in the upcoming [...]

I blame Peter Follansbee for my ruined coif and cough. In the June 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking (on newsstands April 28), we have story from Peter on carving a 17th-century panel; I study [...]

I’m finally nearing the end of construction for a bookcase I’m building for the August issue. I spent last weekend making the two dovetailed drawers for the lower case, and fit them [...]

Today, I glued up the upper carcase of the bookcase I’m working on for an upcoming issue (Bob says it could double as a condo). I was so very pleased with myself. The two fixed shelves fit [...]

As anyone who’s met me (or read some of my blog entries) likely knows, I’m rather enamored of obscure play references, archaic word usages and sesquipedalism. On my desk, I’ve a [...]

See the glaringly obvious L-brackets in each corner and the triangular pieces of plywood in the top back corners that keep this monstrosity from racking? I can’t take it any more! For the [...]