Getting in Touch With Our Inner Europe

I think I was in the DeWalt booth when I suddenly felt the tide turn. One of the company’s product managers was explaining the new guard on the DeWalt jobsite table saw. It was one of the [...]

Old-School Joinery with a New Tool

Freud invited us to an early meeting to present a number of new woodworking related products. Some were router bit designs, some were geared to industrial consumers and one was a new machine [...]

In the Future with Festool

Two years ago if I would have mentioned the company Festool, more likely than not, you wouldn’t have known the name. Then the Domino was introduced and the name Festool jumped in [...]

New CD: The Best of Arts & Crafts

The revival of the Arts & Crafts Movement isn’t just in the furniture store. Woodworkers of all levels of experience have named it one of their favorite styles to build in their [...]

For This I Get Paid? Part 5

Friday, my fellow students and I got into a very sticky situation. That hide glue that Phil Lowe had us start cooking on Monday finally came into play. But first, we were directed to glue up our [...]

For This I Get Paid? Part 4

Today, Phil Lowe set up a jig to waste out the front side of the bridle joint that the leg sleeves over in our demilune tables, and a niggling thought crept in to my head. Did I really keep the [...]

For This I Get Paid? Part 3

As I mentioned in my entry from yesterday, my first order of business this morning (after stirring in the skin at the top of the glue pot — blech) was to band saw away the waste on the [...]