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The Stickley Mantle Clock in the December issue (#173) of Popular Woodworking magazine is a great project to build. I think you’ll see a large number of these clocks given as gifts during [...]

Here’s our favorite time-waster this morning: Norm Abram and his shop constructed entirely from LEGOs.Duane Hess, a woodworker, New Yankee Workshop fan and a LEGO modeler for a gaming [...]

“You can never have enough clamps.” I’ll bet many of you know from whom that quote came (read below if you haven’t a clue). And I would also bet you think that is a sound [...]

Spade bits are not necessarily the first drill bits you look toward when drilling holes while woodworking, but we all have a few sizes at hand. I generally turn to spade bits for specially-sized [...]

Don Weber’s Bicycle Lathe article in the August 2007 issue (#163) sparked a lot of interest and questions (which you can read here). Don has just sent me hand-drawn plans for the lathe, [...]

One of the best things about this job is that every week, mysterious boxes arrive and we get to open them. Inside we usually discover some of the newest and coolest tools about to hit the market; [...]

Being inside a truly great house is like being transported to another world. The vision of the architect and the hands of the craftsmen create something that is set apart from the rest of the [...]

Growing up I remember the times when my father would drag me to historic villages. Our family would spend hours , sometimes a whole day , going on tours, talking to re-enactors, and trying to [...]

The funny thing about teaching a woodworking class is that I always come away learning a few things, about woodworking and about other woodworkers. I left Berea late Saturday afternoon, and the [...]

I don’t know if it’s my upbringing or some sort of deep-South formality that was transmitted to me via a Sonic cherry lime-aid, but I always wear a collard shirt when I work or [...]

This is my favorite picture of the ones I’ve taken while documenting the class. Here we’re routing out the cavities for the bolts that hold the workbench bases together.   When [...]

One of the things I’ve found pertinent to unearthing tools that might be introduced to the U.S. market, is to discover what’s available in Europe. It seems that European woodworkers [...]