THE BUG HOUSE
Made from reclaimed timbers and off cuts a bug house made for a friends little boy .All been pinned and glued with a felt roof .…
A Great Museum Book for Free
Last week while teaching a class at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking on building the Connecticut lowboy from the February 2014 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine (#209) to seven [...]
Carve Like a Master
Very quickly after getting serious about woodworking I realized, if I wanted to make more than simple projects with square or tapered legs, I needed to develop my skills in two major areas beyond [...]
Preparing Woodworkers for a Brighter Future
Woodworking as a craft is one of mankind’s oldest uses of technology, and each generation has passed along knowledge about how to, when to and why to. Technology has changed within the [...]
Tool Chests, 1997-2014
I’ve worked out of a traditional floor chest since 1997 when I built my first cover project for Popular Woodworking Magazine. It’s not that I’ve always been monogamous, however. I’ve tried all [...]
The Only Handplane You Need?
Editor’s note – This post and video originally appeared in The Wood Whisperer Guild, an innovative and high-quality website with tons of woodworking information. Many thanks to Marc [...]
Woodworker’s Solutions to Router Bit Storage
A few weeks back I posted about router bit storage. At the end of the post I suggested that readers send me photos of their storage solutions and I would write a follow-up post showing those [...]
New Vise Mechanism from Hovarter
Len Hovarter of Hovarter Custom Vise has developed a simple and inexpensive quick-release leg vise mechanism that looks quite ingenious. Like all of Hoverter’s vises, they work on the age-old [...]
A Guitar Stand of Clever Design
At the Lie-Nielsen open house last weekend, luthier Patrick Sebrey, of Union, Maine, brought along a clever maple guitar stand on which he put the finishing touches during the two days of [...]
Basque Workbenches – With Unusual Face Vises
Take one leg vise. Rotate it 90°. Now you have a Basque face vise. Woodworker Matt Talley is working in France right now. And during his free time he is hunting down workbenches in the Southern [...]
Tangible Assets
Like most woodworkers, I got interested in the craft because I like producing real things – tangible additions to my environment. That’s also why I got into the book and magazine world. I like [...]
Not Your Prosaic Handplane
Just a little something to drool over — the holly knob and tote are by Bill Rittner; the engraving is by Catharine Kennedy. — Megan Fitzpatrick p.s. I’m out of the office this [...]
