Old-school Rule
Starrett 414 Ruler Review I recently bought myself this Starrett 414 ruler on a whim. Maybe I was smitten by its name: “English Pattern Utility Rule.” Just sounds 18th century, [...]
Done, if Not Complete
Building the shell and lid of a traditional, full-size and fully dovetailed tool chest in five days is a challenge. Which is likely why there aren’t a lot of classes offered on the topic. But [...]
Blacksmith-made Dividers, by Peter Ross
After a week of work (and a lot of fun) assisting Christopher Schwarz with his “Anarchist’s Tool Chest” class at Roy Underhill’s The Woodwright’s School, it was nice [...]
A tribute to the teacher who introduced me to woodturning
In 2001 I began a two year residency program in furniture making at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts. While there I decided to take on a domain of woodworking [...]
New Compilation of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture
About 30 years ago, I had this idea that there ought to be a book of measured drawings of Arts & Crafts period furniture, focusing on the designs of Gustav Stickley. Gus called his work [...]
Tool Chest in a Week! Uh, Really!
With the carcases of the chests assembled, all that was left was to nail on the bottom boards and the battens designed to rot before the bottom. Oh, and we had to dovetail the lower skirt and [...]
Precision Drilling Repetitive Hole Patterns
Years ago, when I was woodworking as a full-time occupation, I remember a couple jobs in particular that required me to set up a drill press to drill a sequence of holes where accuracy was a [...]
Introducing the New Online Community Editor
It is with great pride that I introduce myself as the newest member of the Popular Woodworking Magazine team. As the Online Community Editor, I will be your contact for all things web and eMedia. [...]
Congratulations to Our Festool Sweepstakes Winner!
Congratulations go out to Robert McCollum of Lockport, N.Y., who won our Festool Giveaway. He won a Kapex Sliding Compound Miter Saw, and a CT 26 Dust Extractor for his shop. Robert [...]
Can We Make it to the Bottom?
Welcome to the third day of first grade. We are building a chest, ha ha. It’s a big chest, hee hee. And after we slam our chest together we make our bottoms real smooth (snort!), and make small [...]
Look Ma, No Clamps
I started using stringed packing tape to glue up mitered joints on small jewelry boxes years ago. To glue up mitered boxes you just tape the points of the miters tight and add glue to the joint. [...]
I Saw it. She Saw it. We all Saw it.
As instructors at woodworking classes, we spend most of our time sampling bon-bons and braiding each others hair while the students work away the last bits of their cartilage between their poor, [...]
