Dent the Wood for Tighter Joints
We’ve all dented some important part of a project and hand to remove the dent with heat and steam. It’s a routine and and annoying fix. But what if we could use the same process to make our [...]
How to Design Furniture With Spindles
Designing a piece of furniture with multiple spindles – or even working with someone else’s plan – can be tricky. Drawings will tell you one thing; your eye will tell you another. And relying on [...]
Harvey Industries Acquires Bridge City Tool Works
John Economaki recently detailed his decision to sell Bridge City Tool Works to Harvey Industries. Harvey Industries already licenses and distributes some tools BCTW internationally, so when John [...]
Benchcrafted: Not a Review – an Endorsement
Recently one of the leg vises in my shop cracked. The vise chop snapped and the garter on the wooden screw gave way. While I could repair the damage, I decided to replace the entire mechanism [...]
Ashes to Ashes
When you know how to build furniture, you sometimes find yourself commissioned to make a piece that’s a little out of the ordinary. That’s where I am now. Among my current jobs is a pair of urns [...]
Workbenches: With Experience Comes Simplicity
For the many-hundredth time last week, I explained the virtues of simple workbenches to a skeptical audience of 10 workbench builders. They weren’t having it. Their benches were sketched out with [...]
Workshop Makeover 2018 Winner! Congrats Roy B.!
We are happy to announce the winner of our Workshop Makeover sponsored by Jet, Woodpeckers and Bessey! Roy B. from Louisiana was working on an oil rig when he got the news. Here’s what he [...]
New Step by Step Plans for I Can Do That!
The I Can Do That! series has always been aimed at the beginning woodworker. The episodes are long, compared to the rest of the YouTube world, we explain everything in real time and even provide [...]
Enter the Excellence Awards This Week!
Saturday, June 16th is the last day to submit your project for the Excellence Awards. This year, we’ve revamped the categories. They are: ■ Casework, Cabinets & Bookcases ■ Seating ■ Tables ■ [...]
The Easiest Chair I’ve Made
Author’s Note: Is anyone actually building the garden gate I’ve written about a couple of times? If so, let me apologize for not going on to the next steps here. There are tenons to [...]
Gorilla Glue Serves the Community in Cincinnati, Ohio
Gorilla Glue is local to us at Popular Woodworking. Their headquarters is here in Cincinnati, and a few weeks ago, they let us know it. Over 400 orange shirts descended upon Carthage, Ohio, a [...]
Prototyping a Limbert Desk
Many years ago, I found a great little Limbert desk while researching Arts and Crafts furniture. I admired its lines and economy, and filed it in my ‘to build some-day’ folder. When my youngest [...]
