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I spend a lot of time in my shop, so I’m picky about what I put in there, from the bench to the tool cabinet, the wooden floor or even the wastebasket. Last week I decided I needed a wastebasket [...]
Show Case View your treasures from every angle. By Luke Hartle Any collection you want to display, from fish fossils to Baccarat crystal will look great inside this cabinet. It allows [...]
St. Croix Valley Chairs Enjoy your setting while comfortably sitting. By Tim Johnson Stylish and comfortable, these chairs are also built to last. Made of rot-resistant white oak, with robust [...]
After being clobbered by bacterial pneumonia in 2011, woodworker, Popular Woodworking Magazine author and teacher David Charlesworth is again teaching classes on tool tuning, dovetailing and [...]
OK – you caught me. I’m a lazy cuss, and have bumped the post below back up to the top of the queue, because I can’t be bothered to write a new one. Or maybe, just maybe, we’re [...]
California assembly member Das Williams has introduced a proposed law that would make the sale of new table saws without active injury mitigation technology, illegal. As written, the law would [...]
I have intended for 14 months to add handles to the chest I built for “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest.” And in fact, I had a pair of cool iron chest lifts that a kind reader sent me. But …
We’re busy editing the session descriptions, nailing down the after-hours events and getting contracts out to our expert presenters (you’ll see some new faces among them this year – [...]
Because my wife and I recently moved, everything in our old place had to be packed, including the contents of most drawers, etc. While I was at it, I took a closer look at a Victorian-era [...]
My wife and I recently moved after 22 years to a smaller (read that: “downsized”) home of a very different style than our old Victorian. I’d call our new place International [...]
Face Frame Cabinets Master these techniques to open up a world of projects. By George Vondriska If you can make dadoes, rabbets and face frames, you can make almost any cabinet. Master this [...]