Mafell Chain Mortiser. Dang.
My least-favorite joint to cut by hand is – hands down – a deep mortise. But when you build a French-style workbench, you need to make about a dozen of them. And if you do it by hand, you are …
Hope-chest from reclaimed wood – part 7: Hinges and Milk Paint
Once the lid was completed I turned to instal its hinges. Using a utility knife I outlined the shallow sink where the hinges were to be embedded. I used narrow and wide chisels to excavate the [...]
Best Wood Glue Surface, Smooth or Rough?
From time to time I hear someone comment about a woodworking practice that runs totally contrary to what I’ve been taught. One of these is what kind of wood surface yields the strongest [...]
Congratulations to Bruce Metzdorf, Winner of a JET Table Saw!
We’re excited to announce the winner of the JET ProShop Table Saw Giveaway. Bruce Metzdorf of Granger, Ind., will be getting a brand new JET JPS-10TS 10″ ProShop Table Saw with a [...]
French Bench. German School. American Teacher. Day 1.
No matter how many times I do it, every class on building a workbench is remarkably different. Different wood. Different tools. Different students. Different country. I don’t know how I got [...]
American Woodworker #161 August/September 2012 Preview
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Old Street Tool (a.k.a. Wooden Handplane Porn)
Last Friday, I skipped out of the office for a trip down to Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking in Berea, Ky., (the most bucolic woodworking school I’ve had the pleasure of [...]
Reconsidering Chipbreakers as Not Totally Evil
I have always disliked chipbreakers, which clog a handplane all too easily. But tonight I dislike them a little less. After the recent spate of discussions about a series of Japanese films on [...]
Hope-chest from reclaimed wood – part 6: Lid work continues
I always stress to my students the importance of "designing WITH the grain". By that I mean designing a piece with grain orientation in mind, not only for [...]
New Woodworker’s Online Library Up and Running
This week we are proud to introduce the new Woodworker’s Online Library We’ve gathered together over a decade’s worth of Popular Woodworking Magazine issues, plus dozens of our [...]
John Sindelar’s Tool Museum is Packing Up
John Sindelar’s Michigan tool museum will close its doors in a couple weeks when Sindelar moves his woodworking business about five miles down the road. Sindelar is one of the most public tool [...]
Greene & Greene Finish
I received an e-mail from a reader the other day, asking about finishes for Greene & Greene furniture. It’s one of those areas where we have some good clues about what was used, but we [...]
