Denning: Get it Before it’s Gone
Popular Woodworking Books has just reprinted the classic text “The Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making” by David Denning (1891) in a beautiful edition at a great price. If you are at all interested [...]
How to Repair Loose Screws on a Chair
With time, furniture joints (especially in chairs) tend to loosen up a bit. It’s part of working with a material that once was alive and continues to react with the environment. Wood [...]
Open Totes – Stop Hiding the Functional & Beautiful
I don’t like tool chests. There, I said it. Let’s see if I’m struck down by lightning from the woodworking gods. I’ve bought them in the past, built them, understand their logic. Protection from [...]
Brendan Bernhardt Gaffney: New PWM Managing Editor
I’m delighted to announce that Brendan Bernhardt Gaffney (whom you may know from his ancient rules, sector, calipers and other work at burnHeart) joins the Popular Woodworking team in July [...]
Denning’s 1891 ‘The Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making’
This reprint of David Denning’s 1891 classic “The Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making,” with a foreword by Christopher Schwarz, is a must-read for hand-tool woodworkers, and for [...]
The $500 Maslow CNC Beta Report
The Maslow is not a conventional CNC. It’s kit based, and costs less than $500. $350 if you’ve got a couple of 2” x 4”s and some plywood to throw in. If you’re new to the [...]
How to Fix a Split Seat
One of the most exciting (and frightening) aspects of building a Windsor-style chair is the ever-present possibility that you will split the seat when you drive the legs home. I always tell [...]
Handworks 2017, Day 2
After Handworks 2017 wrapped up last Saturday, I took a few days off work as we wended our way back across the plains to Cincinnati (yes – I actually spent an entire three days doing [...]
VIDEO: Frank Klausz – Home Tour & String Inlay Advice
Frank Klausz has created many beautiful furniture pieces in his lifetime, and one of the features he enjoys using is string inlay. In this short video, Frank takes us on a tour of his home, [...]
Use a Drill to Shape a Chair Seat
Though I’ve built a lot of chairs, I don’t own an adze, which is used to roughly shape a plank seat so it has a buttocks-shaped depression. I also don’t own any of the typical power-tool [...]
Dovetail Layout with PW Editors Past & Present
Look for new videos from Popular Woodworking every Tuesday on our YouTube channel and Thursday. Dovetail layout – and cutting dovetails that go together right off the saw – is worth mastering. [...]
Handworks 2017, Day 1
I’m in Amana, Iowa this weekend for the Handworks 2017, and it’s a bit of a madhouse (but in a good way). It’s difficult to estimate the number of people, because the event is [...]
