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My Strategy for Going Deep

Mar 12, 2010 3:32pm

When I am deep into a sawcut, you could walk into the shop totally naked, on fire and covered with leprous monkeys, and I probably...

Oh Crap! I Guess the Epoxy Was Too Hard

Mar 11, 2010 11:39am

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Won't That Oxygen Ruin Your Plane Blade?

Mar 11, 2010 4:59am

Several weeks ago I was planing a piece of palm when my hand slipped, and a deep sliver of the nasty grass dove into the...

Black Ooze and a Waiting Game

Mar 10, 2010 11:18am

I went looking during lunchtime for stuff to make my epoxy black. I struck out trying to find lamp black and black food coloring in...

Wedge It, Glue It, Fill It

Mar 10, 2010 7:26am

On one of my early workbenches (the $175 Workbench), a split opened at one end of its benchtop a couple weeks after assembly. It was...

Full-size Pattern for the Skansen Bench

Mar 9, 2010 5:21pm

Last week we offered free plans for the Skansen Bench I built for the April 2010 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. If you didn't hear...

The Self-building Workbench

Mar 8, 2010 12:04pm

From the chicken vs. egg file: Many beginning woodworkers think you have to have a workbench in order to build a workbench. So they buy...

Popular Woodworking Magazine by the Numbers

Mar 8, 2010 10:00am

I dislike writing about the magazine business because it's not useful for our readers, who expect us to write about woodworking instead of engaging in...

You Have Got to Meet Jack

Mar 5, 2010 10:06am

I'm to the point with this workbench that I cannot see the concrete floor any more because of the shavings. I hate that floor, but...

East Coast Tool Auction this Saturday

Mar 4, 2010 4:02pm

Whenever I visit the East Coast, I am jealous of the region's stock of vintage hand tools. The Midwest just cannot compete -- even though Cincinnati and Indianapolis were important manufacturing centers of edge tools and saws. So if you are anywhere near Rhode Island this Saturday, I recommend you check out the Bill Spicer...