A Contest in the Making

Back a few weeks, Wood Talk Online (WTO) , hosted by Marc Spagnoulo and Matt Vanderlist (and sponsored by Popular Woodworking) , ran an interview with Chuck Bender, the chief cook and bottle [...]

New Clamps from Lidwig

I stumbled upon these clamps from Lidwig , an Australian company , a couple weeks back, but decided to hold my post until a few samples made it to our shop. Those samples arrived this week. To [...]

Fully Detailed Shop Plans

Do you have plans for the furniture you build for magazine articles or for the projects in your books? That’s probably the most-asked question I get when talking with woodworkers. It seems [...]

A Complicated Delivery

Getting large, heavy things into the shop can be quite a challenge. While we have a loading dock just through the back shop doors (the “barn doors” featured on many Popular [...]

Mortise Machine Mortises

I cannot imagine the number of mortise-and-tenon joints I’ve cut throughout the years. One of the pieces of furniture I’ve built numerous times, a Shaker Sewing Desk, has 55 of these [...]

Building a Bed, Part Two

It has been a week since my first post on building the bed (read it here), as was pointed out by Bill in the comment section. During the week, I was handed many fine ideas to contemplate and …

Grizzly Offers Free Shipping

Are you sitting on the fence waiting to pull the trigger on the purchase of a few new tools? If so, here’s something you should know about. Beginning today, Grizzly Industrial, Inc. is [...]

Building a Bed, Part One

About a year and a half back, my spouse informed me that it was time for a new mattress. “Why?” I asked. There were no lumps. There were no valleys at the center of the bed. No rips. [...]

Colt Bits & Bosch Blades

It’s been a while since we first brought these two woodworking accessories to your attention and we continue to receive email and calls asking where to find these bits and blades. So when a [...]