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I attended my first tool auction last Saturday, and like most (adult) auction-goers, I was caught up in the potential for bargains (there were a passel of Emmert vices on offer…but sadly, [...]

Turning Table Legs By Alan Lacer Turning four table legs that match may sound impossible, but it’s not. With these tried and true tips, and a little practice, you can successfully turn even the [...]

By now you all figured out that clocks are a hit among my young students and, from my experience, most clocks builders are girls. Perhaps the thing that makes a clock unique among the various [...]

Note: Executive editor Robert W. Lang was quoted in this article in USA Today. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a new report on table saw injuries, and the report is [...]

WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A HANDFULL OF DICES???? EASY WHEN YOU KNOW HOW.????…

We were excited about the opportunity to bring Thomas Moser’s “How to Build Shaker Furniture” up to today’s publishing standards. While the book has been an inspiration to [...]

Two months ago, I wrote about two new saws from Bad Axe Tool Works – a 10″ dovetail saw and a 12″ dovetail/small tenon saw. I joked that that I was going to rename the “Doc [...]

One of the issues of using a table saw safely is that many of the things intended to keep us safe don’t work well when you really need them. Ripping thin pieces on the table saw is a good [...]

THE YEW TABLE. THIS IS A PIECE FROM A TIMBER MILL. MADE INTO A TABLE. YEW IS THE TIMBER OF ALL TIMBERS. IF WORKED RIGHT YOU CAN MAKE AMAZING FURNITURE THAT WILL LAST DECADES. THIS TIMBER IS NOT [...]

Today I’m in Portland, Maine, eating myself sick at Duckfat and studying the architectural details on the old houses in this coastal city. As I started picking apart some Victorian houses on the [...]

Alexi's fourth baluster was, to my taste, the best one. He decided to carve an oval foot and then spiral it up with a bead. Once he finished working on all four feet, he continue to created [...]

When designing a piece of furniture, you really can’t go wrong with using the golden ratio. The same might be true for workbenches, but we’ll have to see about that. For my bench, [...]