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Spring into Using a Spokeshave
To celebrate the first day of spring, I bought myself a new tool. It wasn’t just an impulse buy. I had reached a sticking point in my Adirondack chair project the night before. Rather than spend any...
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Scale Drawings and Models in Mid-project
You usually think of scale drawings and models as the starting point for a project. Before you start milling lumber, cutting pieces and assembling parts, you either draw or buy a scaled plan. Some...
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Making Things
I’m into making things. I always have been. That interest may very well place me in the majority of human beings alive today – not to mention throughout history. But interest is one thing and skills...
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Hand Tool School – Q&A with Mike Siemsen
I caught up last week with Mike Siemsen, a professional woodworker and woodworking instructor in Minnnesota. Mike’s hand tool school is known far and wide as a practical and fun place to learn hand...
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Moxon – Soothsayer?
Most of us know Joseph Moxon as the author of “Mechanick Exercises” – a now-famous early work on everything from joinery to smithing. He also invented a vise that sits higher than your typical...
View ArticleA Guided Tour of all our Woodworking Videos
We are adding a significant chunk of video content to our line-up over the next year or so. We are also planning to overhaul and organize the video content that’s already in place, so that discovery of...
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Alternative Tool List for the Adirondack Chair Project
OK, they’re done. Total materials cost (2 chairs): $107. For me, building the Adirondack chairs was a nice 2-month journey through several new skills and a larger knowledge base. I feel ready to...
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Win our “Essential Woodshop Value Pack”
The “Woodworking Daily” 3-year magazine subscription contest has ended (winner to be announced soon), and today a new contest begins. Since it’s finally spring, we thought of a good idea that has to...
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Winner, winner …
Kevin Reagan of Springfield, Missouri, is the winner of our Popular Woodworking Magazine 3-year subscription drawing. Congratulations, Kevin! I asked what he’ll be doing over the next 3 years in his...
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Greene & Greene Furniture – Start Here
In the 15 years Dale Barnard has been making Greene & Greene furniture for clients, the style has experienced an explosion in popularity. Today woodworkers and informed furniture buyers recognize...
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Backsaws – First steps up the slippery slope…
So you’ve decided to try your hand at saw restoration. Congratulations! You’ve got your newly minted copy of “Super-Tune Your Backsaw” but you’ve got no backsaw to super-tune. What to do? Have no...
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The Shaker Furniture Porthole
When I first became interested in building furniture, I searched through books and antiques-based newspapers to find images and descriptions of Shaker furniture. If you asked me to go into the shop to...
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New Online Course – Router Basics with Colin Knecht
Many newcomers to woodworking consider routers scary and confusing tools. No wonder – there is so much to know about wood routing. Not only is there a wide variety of routers and router tables, but...
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3 Tips for Better Finger Joints
Best Wood Types for Finger Joints The type of wood used will make a difference in how forgiving the joint is to put together. Softer woods, such as pine or poplar, will compress when assembled. White...
View ArticleThe Rule of 3 – How to Sharpen
Among the fundamental skills necessary for good woodworking, I’d put knowing how to sharpen your edge tools at the top of the list. Even if you consider yourself a power-tool woodworker, I’ll bet you...
View ArticleDIY Dust Collector – Avoiding Spark Potential
Woodworkers love their toys. Table saws, jointers and planers are serious big-boy (and big-girl) toys. Planes, chisels and saws are cherished, too, and though we all take our craft and hobby seriously,...
View Article“Playing” the Saw
In this 2-part, free video playlist, you get to see a range of ideas and techniques from two terrific instructors. First, Jeff Miller introduces you to the concept of audible feedback during your work...
View ArticleDust Collection System FAQ
Is there any advantage/disadvantage to installing a dust collector outside the shop? It may sound as resolute as a long-range weather forecast, but yes, maybe and no. It is really a personal choice....
View ArticleSketchUp for Woodworkers – Here’s Why
This topic has appeared once or twice on woodworking blogs. So why list the benefits of SketchUp for woodworkers again? Here’s why: There are still too many woodworkers out there who have never heard...
View Article5 Books I Can Highly Recommend
In the 1990s, I had the good fortune to head the editorial team at Rodale Woodworking Books. It was an amazing time when, thanks to the talent of the editors and authors with whom I worked, we produced...
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