The 2014 Anarchist’s Gift Guide: Day 6
I have owned several plant sprayers since Harrelson Stanley of Shapton USA introduced them to me in 2003 as a great way to keep your waterstones wet. Of all the sprayers I’ve used, this sub-$10 [...]
The 2014 Would-be Sybarite’s Gift Guide: Day 4
Today’s pick is one I actually have. Books are my first love, and from a very young age. (In fact, years ago I camethisclose to pursuing a graduate degree in the history of books and book [...]
When Your Tool Chest Needs to Be a Tank (or a Boat)
When tool chests suffer damage, it’s usually in three places: the top rim of the lid, the lower skirt around the carcase and the bottom boards, which are rotted. The rim of the lid gets dented by [...]
Alf Sharp – Cartouche Winner & ‘Words with Friends’ Dynamo
Alf Sharp has an almost unparalleled woodworking resume. Like many of us, his first woodworking involved home repairs and remodeling, and he soon began doing more trim work and carpentry (with [...]
The 2014 Anarchist’s Gift Guide: Day 5
It is not always the screw’s fault. Yes, home-center wood screws are too soft. Some off-shore screw manufacturers use substandard materials and manufacturing processes. But sometimes it’s your [...]
The 2014 Would-be Sybarite’s Gift Guide: Day 3
One tool I use on every build and every project in my house is a combination square. So it’s important to me to have good ones. That is, squares that are reliably square, and [...]
How Low Can You Go?
With the Christmas season soon upon us there are currently two lists running on the Popular Woodworking web site to tantalize your woodworking taste buds. The “sensible” [...]
The 2014 Would-be Sybarite’s Gift Guide: Day 2
I have several matched hollows & rounds…but I don’t have a full set. Or a half set. Poor me. (That said, I do have the two sets I knew I would use, plus a couple unusable ones [...]
The 2014 Would-be Sybarite’s Gift Guide: Day 1
Over on his blog, Christopher Schwarz has been writing the 2014 Anarchist’s Gift Guide since Dec, 1. I’m starting a little late with my 2014 Sybarite’s Gift Guide…because [...]
The 2014 Anarchist’s Gift Guide: Day 4
Woe is the poor glue scraper. There are no toolmakers crafting these tools with rosewood handles and German silver accents. No annoying forum threads that debate the merits of the different [...]
2014 Popular Woodworking Compilation CD
Just in time for a holiday gift (possibly for yourself), we have available all seven issues of Popular Woodworking Magazine from 2014 on one CD. (I’m told a download version of the whole [...]
The 2014 Anarchist’s Gift Guide: Day 3
If you read this blog regularly, you should be sick of this suggestion: Buy Pégas coping saw blades. Hoard them. I do – and I’m not generally a hoarder. I have about 150 stashed away in case [...]
