Black Walnuts, Revisited
This week in our newsletter, I wrote about going to a walnut festival and planting some of the fruits when I got home. It was my hope to see some seedlings in the spring. I asked readers if they [...]
Video: Glue up a Panel
Many beginners make gluing up panels a lot harder than it should be. They add biscuits or splines for alignment, which can also cause some mis-alignment if you aren’t careful with your machines [...]
Caption the Photo Contest
Long-time carpenter and Popular Woodworking Magazine contributor Carl Bilderback sent me this image a few days back, and said I should come up with a clever caption about it being a baby picture [...]
Report Card: 6 Months Without a Chop Saw
When I reorganized my shop last Spring, I sold a lot of stuff. I sold so much stuff that I was afraid that I was cutting into the bone. I sold my routers. My router table. My sliding compound [...]
Restoring an old cabinet part 3: Refinishing over an exiting finish.
In this part I will talk about how we chose a new finish for Sharon's piece. His piece, an old sideboard whose finish was in reasonable shape, needed a rejuvenating agent [...]
Three Ways to Joint Veneer Edges
To join veneer edges together, they need to be straight and true – just like when gluing up solid lumber. Gaps are not allowed. Granted, veneer edges are not glued in the same way as solid [...]
Try Digital with a Free Project
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave, you’ve likely heard that print is dead and digital is the new reality. That may be a slight exaggeration as I, for one, still enjoy turning pages. [...]
Extending Dining Table
Extending Dining Table Storing the leaves is a snap–they tuck away under the top. By Joe Gohman Have you ever seen wood glow? That’s what happened when I finished this table. I turned [...]
Two-Part Bookcase
Two-Part Bookcase Here's a big bookcase that you can build in a small shop. By Tom Caspar Building a tall bookcase can stretch the limits of a small shop. We all know that big boards can be a [...]
My Favorite Tool from the H.O. Studley Tool Chest
Making woodworking tools doesn’t interest me as much as making furniture, but my recent encounter with Henry O. Studley’s tool chest has me eyeing the metals section of the McMaster-Carr web [...]
There’s No Shame in Nails
Adam Cherubini, our Arts & Mysteries columnist and blogger, and a contributing editor to the magazine, generated quite a buzz at the Woodworking in America conference with his talk on nailed [...]
