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Bob Flexner’s new book, “Flexner on Finishing,” is due in our warehouse any day now, but we’ve extended the 20 percent off pre-sale price through Sept. 20. This book, [...]

Time for a show of hands. Have you ever said, “I can’t cut curves because I don’t have a band saw, a jig saw or an oscillating spindle sander?” If so, here’s a [...]

Here’s my theory: if you get good using one tool, learning the next tool you pick up will be easier. Good woodworkers connect a piece of wood on the bench and their brain through their [...]

We’ve narrowed down the entries for our contest to pick a T-shirt slogan for our Woodworking in America event. The front side of the shirt will say: Woodworking in America 2010.” And [...]

At the Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers show in Las Vegas three years ago, Steel City Tool Works (SCTW) took the woodworking world by storm with the introduction of granite [...]

In most woodworking shops, space is at a premium. If you could increase the size of your shop, you would. And unless you have oodles of space, I’m willing to bet your finishing room is even [...]

Working on this little block has been an interesting experience, and I hope you’ll give it a try. Explaining it on the blog has made me think about a lot of basic things that have become [...]

One of the greatest moments in marketing history was the mass adoption of power tools following World War II. Before then, the standard thinking was that just about anyone could pick up a saw and [...]

In my work, I hear from many of the woodworking machine manufacturers. One company stands out as a front runner when it comes to new machines coming to market: General International. As I survey [...]

I had to move from one end of the hall to the other in order at the International Woodworking Fair to keep my appointment with the folks at Rockler, but I wasn’t disappointed with what they [...]

This morning at the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta, DeWalt and Porter-Cable each took the wraps off a new compact router. While there are some differences, there is one shared [...]

One of the things that can overwhelm a beginning woodworker is the sheer number of choices to make about the simplest things. It doesn’t help that there is always someone waiting to tell [...]