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Nothing is more fundamental to woodworking than the wood itself, however even professional cabinetmakers struggle with understanding how wood works and how to make it work for them. In the Spring [...]

Getting large, heavy things into the shop can be quite a challenge. While we have a loading dock just through the back shop doors (the “barn doors” featured on many Popular [...]

This circa 1670 joint stool is from Wallace Nutting’s “Furniture Treasury.” I’ve been reading a bit of Shakespeare lately (everyone should have a hobby, no?), and in [...]

While pegging the joints in a Shaker stepback I built for the February 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking, I used a $100 flush-cut saw. It’s a darn nice saw. Unless one clogs the teeth with [...]

If a decade ago you lived in the Cincinnati area, you likely attended the F+W Warehouse sale. At the time, we had a book warehouse on our Evanston property (the old Coca Cola bottling plant), and [...]

In the subscriber issues of December 2008 Popular Woodworking, there was an insert glued to page 25, and it seems our printer used a super-strong adhesive that didn’t allow easy removal. [...]

Discover how to add pegs to any project to achieve a traditional look – and to make your joints stronger.

Two tones of color and sharp, square edges give this piece modern flair.

Don Weber’s Bicycle Lathe article in the August 2007 issue (#163) sparked a lot of interest and questions (which you can read here). Don has just sent me hand-drawn plans for the lathe, [...]

One of the best things about this job is that every week, mysterious boxes arrive and we get to open them. Inside we usually discover some of the newest and coolest tools about to hit the market; [...]

In February 2005, John Wilson (whom you likely know from his Shaker box articles) wrote a story for us on building a “Sailor Girl”, a 12′-long boat made in just three-and-a half [...]

I got back to Cincinnati late Saturday after six days at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking, where Phil Lowe taught me and 11 others how to build a demilune table with a veneered apron. I [...]