Gil Arad’s Birthing chair – Part 1: Ash and oak chair.
Birthing chair? Until a week ago I never heard of such a thing. In the spirit of, "you learn something new everyday," I learned about birthing chairs when my friend and fellow [...]
Friday at Brad’s Bench May 16th
You Want Me To Help You Make a What? If you have kids in school, you’re well aware of the fact that you’ll be pressed into service to help make art projects countless times. For me, [...]
Furniture Details: Yep, Philly Wins Again
Last Friday I talked about through mortise-and-tenon joinery in 18th century chairs in my post “Furniture Details: Why Philadelphia is Just Better.” In the post I mentioned through [...]
Do You Know Wood?
When I started my job as director of marketing at a lumber company, I received an e-mail from Christopher Schwarz telling me that I would be in a unique position to help educate scores of [...]
AW Extra 5/15/14 – Precision 3-Wall Scribes
Precision 3-Wall Scribes A simple template guarantees a perfect fit. By Brad Holden Fitting a countertop between two side walls and a back wall is one of the most challenging installations you [...]
Renewal Scam Alert
As good as I think our magazine is, it’s not worth $59.95 a year*. A scam company is perpetrating fraud with the spurious renewal offer pictured above. Do not respond. (And please know that [...]
5 Books I Can Highly Recommend
In the 1990s, I had the good fortune to head the editorial team at Rodale Woodworking Books. It was an amazing time when, thanks to the talent of the editors and authors with whom I worked, we [...]
Making a Vise Chop for a Benchcrafted Classic
I started making the wooden vise chop for a new leg vise for my Holtzapffel workbench (featured in “The Workbench Design Book”) using some crazy new hardware from Benchcrafted: the Classic vise [...]
Another Engine
I have lost track of the number of wooden try squares I’ve built in the last five years. At this time last year I had the parts for about 20 mahogany squares in my shop. Now I’m down to one …
SketchUp for Woodworkers – Here’s Why
This topic has appeared once or twice on woodworking blogs. So why list the benefits of SketchUp for woodworkers again? Here’s why: There are still too many woodworkers out there who have [...]
Design in Practice: Arts & Crafts, Mission – It’s All Jacobean to Me
I know there’s lots of Arts & Crafts fans out there reading Popular Woodworking Magazine and the “Editors’ Blog.” But did you know that makers from the period took [...]
Catharine Kennedy, Coping Saws & More in August
Our designer, Dan Pessell, is putting the final file touches on the August issue, which leaves our hands on Thursday. So I should be hard at work editing articles now for October and beyond. I [...]
