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Four-Sided Quartersawn Table Legs How to rout lock miters on narrow pieces. By Tom Caspar and Stewart Crick Purchase the complete version of this woodworking technique story from AWBookstore.com. [...]

Hammer Your Own Copper Hardware By David Olson Purchase the complete version of this woodworking technique story from AWBookstore.com. Hardware doesn’t have to come from a catalog. You can make [...]

Lighted Quilt Hanger By Randy Johnson Decorative quilts make great wall displays, and this quilt valance gives you an easy way to show off a quilt—with light, no less. The top of the [...]

Some machines are easy to set up to collect dust and chips while others defy all attempts. On the easy list are most stationary machines: Plug the hose into the port and it works pretty well. On [...]

With the release of the long-awaited book “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree,” I hope to get many more reports like this one from woodworker Wilbur Pan in New Jersey. He and some fellow members of [...]

Part two of Christopher Scwarz’s “Mastering Hand Tools” series, “Knives, Marking Gauges and Cutting Tools,” is available on our ShopClass site. In it Schwarz gives a [...]

The first tenet of “I Can Do That” is that all projects we build for it must be doable with the modest (but decent) set of beginner tools we’ve identified, and for which [...]

If you were one of the 450 people at Woodworking in America 2011, then hopefully you were able to fit in one of Jay van Arsdale’s sessions on Japanese tools and joinery. But if not (or for [...]

The first project I give to my students in the Intro to Woodworking class at 3rdWard NYC is building a wooden mallet. The mallet is perfect because it requires less then two meetings to make and [...]

MADE FROM 6X1 GRAVEL BOARDS. COST WAS  22 POUNDS FOR TIMBER .PLUS A DAY IN MY OWN TIME TO MAKE .IDEAL FOR KIDS  TO PLAY IN WITH THEIR TOYS .…

In the April 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I included an (obscure) visual jape (though I’m likely the only one who finds it amusing). The first person to correctly identify [...]

This week Christopher Schwarz’s “Mastering Hand Tools: Why Learn Hand Tools?” video is available on our ShopClass site. In this first of 10 videos, Schwarz explains the benefits [...]