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  From the Editor: The Healing Power of Woodworking

  June 19, 2019

  We each approach woodworking in a very personal way, and we get our satisfaction from it in personal ways. While appearing on our Shop Talk Live podcast (episode 189) at…

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  Upgrading a planer to a segmented cutterhead – part 2

  November 6, 2017

  And the beat goes on

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  The Bad and the Beautiful of Period Apprenticeships 

  April 24, 2019

  It is easy for us to conjure up visions of period apprenticeship that are heavily romanticized, but in reality, each shop was a working business where making the next shilling superseded the need for the apprentice’s next lesson

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  Modeling a Rustic Chair in SketchUp

  August 7, 2019

  Tim Killen needs to work out dimensions and angles from an old Shaker chair pattern, so he uses SketchUp, one of his favorite tools, to fill the gaps

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  Loose-pin butt hinges: a little play may be better than none

  July 10, 2019

  I’m working on a set of built-in cabinets in cherry for a late 1920s house in one of our town’s loveliest historic districts. There are two cabinets flanking a large…

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  Porter Cable Table Saws Sold Exclusively at Lowe’s Stores Recalled Due to Fire Hazard

  July 25, 2019

  Made by Chang Type

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Other Recent Blog Posts

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  Destination Woodworking

  August 19, 2019

  For Vic Tesolin, traveling to take a woodworking class is a fantastic way to expand his woodworking skills

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  STL196: Is It Time to Upgrade Your Planer

  August 16, 2019

  Mike, Barry, and Ben discuss planer upgrades, chip-out prone furniture parts, benchtop tablesaw concerns, and write the next chapter in the rabbet block plane debate

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  Innovative workbenches are easy to build

  August 15, 2019

  Workbenches are a Catch-22: You won’t get far without a solid work surface of some kind, equipped with a vise made for woodworking. But most workbench plans are so complicated you need a…

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  Used tools are this woodworker’s best friend

  August 12, 2019

  Outfitting a shop with tools is expensive, so I decided to go with used tools. Here are a few tips I have picked up along the way.

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  Song of the Drawknife

  August 9, 2019

  Curtis Buchanan builds his "democratic chair" with the bare minimum of inexpensive tools and materials with surfaces directly from the drawknife, embellished with a bit of milk paint

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  STL195.5: Scott Landis of Greenwood Global

  August 9, 2019

  For more than 25 years GreenWood has worked with artisans in Honduras and the Peruvian Amazon to produce high-quality wood products from well-managed forests

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  The Facts of Sharpening

  August 5, 2019

  The reality is that dull tools are the main reason why woodworkers struggle with hand tools. There is no way around it. If you don't have sharp tools, then you won't be successful with hand tools.

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  STL195: New Tools From AWFS in Vegas

  August 2, 2019

  Rollie Johnson and Justin Fink join Tom, Barry, and Ben to discuss new tools being shown at the AWFS fair in Las Vegas

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  The Rugged Journey of 600 Mallets

  August 1, 2019

  How the nonprofit GreenWood helped bring woodturning skills and bicycle-powered lathes into Honduras, sparking the creation of some 600 mallets that will be sold by Lee Valley. It's just one…