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TRIED MY HAND AT BAKING… LOOKS GOOD FRESH BAKED BREAD.YEW WOULD LOVE THE SMELL FRESH OUT THE OVEN.???? A NICE SLICE WITH BUTTER AND A CUP OF TEA  OR EVEN SLICED TO MAKE FRENCH [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to divide a circle into three, you can do it very easily with just a ruler and a compass. I’m working on a sculptural piece of furniture that has three blades [...]

Exotic woods don’t blow my skirt/kilt/skort up much. In small doses they can look beautiful, but for the most part I find them oily, difficult to work and far too wild looking for full-size [...]

  Once we recognized the structural problems, we knew what we should do:  put glue in the loose joints and pull the parts back together. The question was how to do it in [...]

Sharon is a reader of my Hebrew woodworking blog (http://woodworkinginisrael.blogspot.com/). A month ago he decided to restore a nice looking cabinet that he owned. He wanted [...]

What’s better than a hand-made box from your shop? How about a box that is a puzzle, that stores special items and even has a secret compartment. Done. It’s the Round-Drawer Spring [...]

The Consumer Product Safety Commission will be accepting public comments on a proposed rule to improve table saw safety. Comments will not be accepted by e-mail, but will be accepted online via [...]

“Furniture in the Southern Style: 27 Shop Drawings of Furniture from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts,” by Robert W. Lang and Glen D. Huey (with an introduction from Mack [...]

Chances are you’ve read comments by famous (and not-so-famous) woodworkers regarding their relationship to the materials with which they work. George Nakashima described the [...]

As many of you know, David Charlesworth had to drop out of his classes at Woodworking in America 2011 after he was hospitalized in Munich, Germany, for pneumonia. Click on this link for updates [...]

Precise Hand-Cut Dovetails A new approach to half-blind dovetails guarantees a precision fit. By Tom Caspar Purchase the complete version of this woodworking technique story from AWBookstore.com. [...]

Floating Shelves Torsion-box construction creates sag-proof shelves that "defy" gravity. By Tim Johnson Some time ago, an Ace Hardware ad in American Woodworker sparked a surprising [...]