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Discover our picks for the 12 Best New Tools of 2009 in the December issue of Popular Woodworking , if you’re a subscriber, you should be getting the new issue any day now (it will be [...]

There’s not much better than to give something with little value only to receive something useful in return. You have to admit that old, worn-out and non-working drills hanging around the [...]

This coming Saturday, October 31, is the 89th anniversary of the birth of James Krenov, the influential woodworker, author and teacher who passed away on Sept. 9, 2009. To mark the event and [...]

Every year we name the best new tools we’ve encountered and feature them in our December issue of Popular Woodworking magazine. The process we use is entirely unscientific, and we like it [...]

When I last wrote about this discovery of mahogany (read it here), I wrote that the price was not going to be $10 per board foot. I now have that information, sort of. But let me tell you …

If you’re a “dado-holic”, or if you occasionally set up and cut dados while woodworking, Infinity Cutting Tools has just made your life easier with its Dado Measuring Gauge. [...]

I helped Megan Fitzpatrick install the crown moulding on the case-on-case bookshelf that’s featured in the December issue of Popular Woodworking. Here’s how I do it: When I have a [...]

Norm Abram sat down with Publisher Steve Shanesy at the July 2007 AWFS show in Las Vegas We’ve just received a press release stating that, after 21 seasons, The New Yankee Workshop is [...]

Last week I asked Christopher Schwarz to give me a list of his favorite titles that we have available in the Woodworker’s BookShop. I’ve worked with Chris for the past year, so I [...]

Yesterday, Glen Huey squeezed out equal amounts of Old Brown Glue and Titebond liquid hide glue onto two glass plates, then we walked around the offices accosting F+W employees, thrust the plates [...]

In antique period furniture, mahogany is king. Sure there are areas where walnut was a popular choice among wealthy patrons of the day, but for the most part, prior to the Chippendale period work [...]

Late yesterday afternoon a group of guys from Porter-Cable and Delta stopped by the Popular Woodworking shop. After meeting the early arrivals and while standing in the F+W Media lobby waiting [...]