Actual Table Saws in Use: A Numbers Game
We’ve all been following the lawsuit where a jury awarded a Massachusetts man $1.5 million dollars for an accident he had while using a Ryobi table saw. (Need to catch up on the story? [...]
WGBH & T-Mac Update
Plans are moving ahead full force with the newly announced woodworking show on PBS. I’m told that WGBH and Tommy J. MacDonald have met with a few potential sponsors for the show. Laurie [...]
Catch A Woodworking Class In 2010
The snow is finally melting. You can see the greenish-brown grass again. That means we are heading into spring. That, in turn, signifies that I need to get busy preparing for upcoming teaching [...]
Generations in the Making
A couple weeks back, I wrote about the step-chair I was making for my niece, per a Fitzpatrick family tradition that began in the 1950s. The project plan was from U-Bild, which discontinued the [...]
SawStop Safety System Saga Steams Forward
Blade-braking technology is a vital part of the table saws from SawStop , the ability to stop a spinning blade in 1/100 of a second is what put the company on the map. SawStop table saws are the [...]
Popular Woodworking Magazine by the Numbers
I dislike writing about the magazine business because it’s not useful for our readers, who expect us to write about woodworking instead of engaging in navel-gazing. But because we have [...]
'Tool Crib of the North' is Back as 'Acme Tools'
Woodworkers of old (of more than a decade, anyway) may remember the Tool Crib of the North (TCN) as among the premier online dealers in woodworking tools and supplies. Well before he was editor [...]
WGBH Returns to Woodworking
Most woodworkers followed Norm Abram at New Yankee Workshop and you know how fast the word of his retirement spread across the woodworking community. It was a sad day indeed. The fact that WGBH, [...]
Festool Improves Its C12 Drill-driver
Since the Festool C12 drill/driver’s release, the Popular Woodworking shop has had the tool in use. In fact, someone in the shop (I’ll not mention the name) keeps this tool close at [...]
A Family Tradition, Ready for Some Finish
Thursday, I wrote that I was going to make a “Step-Chair” (U-BILD plan No. 102) for my niece, per family tradition. What I didn’t mention was that I felt the need to complicate [...]
April is Just a Week Away!
Though we’re buried in snow, Spring is on the way…in the form of the April 2010 Popular Woodworking Magazine. This issue is the first that combines the best of Popular Woodworking and [...]
Shaker Cupboard: Unique Backboard Arrangement
The backboards on the White Water Shaker cupboard, the cover project on the first-ever Popular Woodworking Magazine (April 2010), gave us all a charge. Why would the maker of the original [...]
