A Close Look at the New SawStop Professional Cabinet Saw
Thursday was my day at AWFS 2009 to stop by SawStop and catch up with Mark Pennington, marketing director. He shared a few things about SawStop’s new Professional Cabinet Saw (PCS) and [...]
New Products Unveiled at AWFS
There are always new products introduced at AWFS and this year is no different. Because I ran into so many items, I’m going to give you a quick-hit review of a number of them rather than [...]
General International Reveals Expansion Plans at AWFS
The big news at the AWFS show came from a Canadian company. General International announced plans to restructure and expand into the United States to improve its operations in the lower 48. The [...]
Fresh Wood Competition at AWFS
I’m in Las Vegas right now at the AWFS show (Association of Woodworking and Furnishing Suppliers). As a furniture guy, I gravitate toward the Fresh Wood competition held every other year at [...]
Better Glue Application
For as long as I can remember, I’ve stood on my soapbox to urge woodworkers to use a toothbrush to spread glue when edge joining two pieces of lumber. A toothbrush is plenty wide enough to [...]
Caption the Photo Contest (a.k.a. 'Pick on Glen)
Senior Editor Glen D. Huey was out of the office last week, purportedly teaching a class on building a tea table at Acanthus Workshops. But on Friday, I got a photo via e-mail from Chuck Bender [...]
'The Arts & Mysteries of Hand Tools' — A New CD featuring Adam Cherubini
On our newest CD, “The Arts & Mysteries of Hand Tools,” we’ve collected everything Contributing Editor Adam Cherubini has written over the years , from his first “Arts [...]
Visit the Marketplace at Woodworking in America
To all our Chicago-area readers: We would (of course) love to have you join us for the weekend, or even just one day, at the St. Charles Woodworking in America Furniture Construction and Design [...]
Wish I Lived Near Rochester, N.Y.
For those of you who made it to the Cincinnati Lie-Nielsen Travelin’ Hand Tool event, you know how great it was to get your hands on a huge range of Lie-Nielsen tools, meet the folks behind [...]
Being In The Right Place
Being in the right place at the right time has its rewards. I’ve worked at woodworking for two decades and I’ve never used anything with the name Yates or Colladay on it , until this [...]
SketchUp at Woodworking in America
How You Can HelpThe Woodworking in America: Furniture Design and Construction conference is just a few weeks away. We’re all looking forward to the conference and the opportunity to spend [...]
Guess the Avatar
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner: Congrats to Craig Parker. Answers are at the bottom. We’re in the midst of a cover test for the October issue of Popular Woodworking (you can cast [...]
