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Hefty Bookends Resaw your own veneer to hide the steel shot inside. Got a small chunk of figured wood that you’d like to show off? Resaw it into thick veneers and make a pair of matching [...]

In this project James wanted to build a stool with slanted legs. Teaching my students how to make a simple dado is something I have done many times before. But, teaching a student to make an [...]

DeWALT 12” Sliding Compound Miter Saw A 12” Sliding Compound Miter Saw, which has been designed to be precise and accurate enough for fine woodworking, yet durable enough for framing [...]

The first time I taught at Roy Underhill’s school in Pittsboro, N.C., Roy made sure that I met Peter Ross, a blacksmith who worked at Colonial Williamsburg for 25 years. We all ate dinner at gas [...]

The updated and revised version of Thomas Moser’s classic “How to Build Shaker Furniture” is now available for pre-order. You may be asking, “What’s updated and [...]

With the Early Bird deadline fast approaching to register for Woodworking in America, here’s a look at just some of what’s new for 2011  – in case you’ve been before, and [...]

The first time I saw Ron Herman sharpen a handsaw, I learned more about sharpening the tool in 20 minutes than I had learned in all the years I’d been a woodworker. I had been sharpening my saws [...]

I’m at the “The Woodwright’s Shop” set listening to Peter Follansbee and Roy Underhill rehearse for tomorrow’s shoot for an episode on carving Swedish spoons. [...]

SEE IT BELIEVE IT. THE MIND BLOWER.ALL ONE PIECE. ITS EASY WHEN YOU KNOW HOW???????????????…

TAKES A GOOD DAY TO SORT OUT THESE BOARDS ,THEN MACHINE THEM TO SIZE YOU WANT.THERE ARE MILLIONS OF DAMAGED BOARDS WORLD WIDE LEFT TO ROT OR TO BURN.BUT WITH TIME IF YOU GET ANY FREE.YOU TOO CAN [...]

I’ve been getting a bunch of nice images for the JPEG Wars that will be held as an extra, free event at Woodworking in America 2011. This piece is by James Raines. He built this bookcase [...]

The shop smelled good this morning as I milled up some old pine floor boards. They were salvaged out of my house in Rhode Island. I pulled them up years ago in order to sister the floor joists. I [...]