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I spent last Thursday and Friday with two other judges staring at photographs and deciding if this was better than that. We were in a conference room at VeneerTech, deciding the winners in this [...]

If you know me through my writing, then you likely think that I prefer traditional furniture to the more contemporary forms. That’s not exactly true. What I really prefer is traditional [...]

Travel Humidor A pull-apart box with a silky-smooth fit. By Suwat Phruksawan I've had a lot of fun over the years building boxes of all shapes and sizes.This one was made as a travel humidor [...]

In “The Quick-start Guide to Woodworking,” we’ve pulled together articles from 11 years of Popular Woodworking Magazine and Woodworking Magazine with everything the beginning [...]

The last day of the tool chest class at Dictum workshops was supposed to be all about the lid. One lid in one day. Easy. Well as it turned out, the last day of the tool chest class was about …

JUST ANOTHER IDEA.GET A 3 LITRE COKE BOTTLE. CAREFULLY TAKE LABEL OFF. FILL IT WITH EPOXY RESIN.MAKE SURE RESIN IS COLOURED TO MATCH COLA COLOUR…. LEAVE TO DRY SOLID.. NOW USING A HOME MADE [...]

THE CRICKET BAT?UNIQUE AND IDEAL AS A GIFT FOR THE UP AND COMING CRICKET PLAYER.A CD RACK.THIS IS ONLY PART DONE TO SHOW YOU WHATS POSSIBLE TO DO WITH A OLD CRICKET BAT??!! THIS CAN BE HUNG ON A [...]

One of my students in my tool chest class has no business being there. He’s been a woodworking instructor in Denmark for 40 years and can teach me a few things. But his son Jonas asked him to [...]

Yesterday, I was finishing up the milling of my workbench legs. The stock was originally 8″in diameter by 8′ long. I had salvaged four posts from an old mill in New Bedford, Mass. Two [...]

BANDSAW MAGIC ,WHAT DID YOU DO WITH YOUR 4X4 INCH PINE CUBES. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO IT..??? REMEMBER THE TRADE??  PLUMBERS /PLASTERERS/DRY LINERS/ELECTRICIANS [...]

It’s time to reveal a dirty little secret of teaching woodworking classes. Are you ready? I don’t care. Here we go. You have to whip the students mercilessly in the beginning days or the class [...]

It’s been years (actually more like two decades) since I last used a vacuum press during my days in a commercial shop. My recollection is that it was a cumbersome and noisy task. Are you [...]