The Woodworking in America conference came to a close more than a week ago. We came down from the high of the weekend and pushed through what Matt Vanderlist (of Matt’s Basement Workshop) [...]
Saturdays, in my world, translate into a day in the shop working on any number of projects. Last Saturday was no different. I began building a dining table on Friday, and by Saturday, I was well [...]
I spent this past “Woodworking in America” weekend demonstrating techniques and advising others to learn as many methods to accomplish any given woodworking technique, then choose the [...]
Soon, subscribers will start receiving their November 2010 issues of Popular Woodworking Magazine , and therein, they’ll find that I fell down on the job. In between our final page layouts [...]
I really like how, as an editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine (PWM), I have a say in what is covered throughout the year in the printed pages , and how nice it is to intertwine projects that I [...]
Are you hoarding a bin full of interesting scraps you can’t bear to throw away…but no project in mind on which to use them? How about someone else’s scrap bin , might that be [...]
This past week I was contacted by a reader in Chicago. He’s considering driving down to the Woodworking in America conference (WIA) to experience the Marketplace and had hopes of purchasing [...]
If there were an award for the most words per board foot in writing about woodworking, I believe that this series of posts about the Gottshall block would win. And if there were an award for the [...]
A quick reminder: The pre-sale special on Bob Flexner’s new book, “Flexner on Finishing,” ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT today. Order it now for $19.99 , at midnight, the price reverts [...]
You’ve no doubt heard about the new woodworking show from WGBH, the Boston PBS station that brought you “The New Yankee Workshop.” The show is called “Rough Cut , [...]
Woodworking in America opens in a little less than two weeks and again this year we are preparing for the Hand Tool Olympics. We have the same events scheduled as in the previous year’s [...]
Take a look at the above photo. What you see is the embryonic beginning to the power tool portion of the 2010 Woodworking in America Conference (WIA). General International stepped up to supply [...]