Meet Thos. Moser Saturday in Northern Virginia
Thos. Moser furniture is staging an event this weekend, March 9-10, in Tysons Corner, Virginia. On Saturday, company founder and legendary furniture maker Tom Moser will be on hand to talk about [...]
How to Buy a Bandsaw
How to Buy a Bandsaw This workhorse is one of the four basic stationary tools in most shops, and can greatly expand the kinds of projects you can build. A bandsaw can rip, crosscut, resaw [...]
Routers: Change Your Woodworking for the Better
Take a look inside almost anyone’s shop and you’ll see the regular assortment of power tools. You’ll see a table saw and a band saw, and you may stub your toe on a jointer and [...]
Q & A: Help! My router makes huge sparks!
Q & A: Help! My Router Makes Sparks! Q: When I run my router I see lots of small, blue sparks inside. Recently the sparks have grown larger. Is this OK? A: Nope. Small sparks are [...]
How to Stock up on Traditional Fasteners
If you build traditional casework with traditional joints and fasteners then you already know the local hardware store is of little use when you need some 4d rosehead nails. Lucky for us, there’s [...]
Dovetails with Help from the Drill Press
When I make a lot of half-blind dovetails, I’ll use a drill press to help bore out the waste between the pins. The video below shows how I do. Some caveats to consider before you try to cram your [...]
(W)racked with Indecision
I don’t know why, but I didn’t like the idea of a saw till on the floor of my tool chest full across the front, walled off from the rest of the floor space (like what Christopher [...]
Build a Bench, Help a Serviceman
One of the biggest obstacles to beginning woodworkers is carving out a space to work in, and building a bench to work on. Recently, I built a pair of portable workbenches that are closely based [...]
Swiveling Outfeed Roller
Swiveling Outfeed Roller Here’s an outfeed roller designed to support long boards behind the saw for ripping or alongside the saw for crosscutting. When not in use, the roller can be hung on the [...]
Live Chat with Bob Lang, Monday March 11
There are a bunch of online woodworking forums, but WoodCentral is a bit special to me. That is where I came across a posting from Chris Schwarz almost nine years ago about an opening on the [...]
Shop Tool and Storage Cabinet
When I was a new woodworker in the early 1980s I was in need of a general-purpose shop tool and storage cabinet. I had recently completed a cabinetmaking course at the Los Angeles Trade Technical [...]
What I learned at the Design Build Show
After spending a week at the Design Build Show in Boston with some of the region’s most talented furniture makers, it is safe to say I learned a few things… Here are the top 10, in no [...]
