Author name: Enthusiast

In the coming weeks (and months), we’ll have a great deal more  to share about Woodworking in America 2014, but for now, know this: Dates: Sept. 12-14, 2014 Location: Winston-Salem, N.C. The main venue is the Benton Convention Center, located in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem (read: You won’t go hungry. Or thirsty.) And we’re particularly delighted to be partnering with Old Salem and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative […]

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I have visited a lot of woodworking clubs in North America since 1996, and I thought I had seen it all until I stepped into the Kansas City Woodworkers Guild’s enormous facility today. Perched on top of a cave (Kansas City is full of caves), the club has more than 10,000 square feet of space for demonstrations, plus a bench room and a machine room (not to mention storage galore). […]

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I’m often asked if we accept unsolicited queries. We do. We just haven’t had the submission guidelines posted on the web site for the last couple of years – and now we do. Every issue includes at least a couple of articles from freelance writers, many of which started out as unsolicited queries. In fact, we rarely assign projects or techniques to freelancers;  we’d much rather have folks tell us […]

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It’s hard to separate woodworking from history. Most of the skills we need and tools we use come from earlier times when everyday items that are now mostly plastic or cardboard were made of wood. It’s easy to look back and assume that a tool or process developed for a specialty in the 18th or 19th century makes sense today, or to make the assumption that what one branch of […]

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When it comes to pushing our handplanes, I think we are candy-bottomed wussies compared to the joiners of the 17th century. We are obsessed with how thin a shaving we can make. Early joiners, however, wanted to take the thickest, gnarliest shaving possible for the tool, the bench and his or her arms. For proof, take a look at the first English-language woodworking book, “The Art of Joinery” (1678) by […]

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The Grand Prize Winner of Popular Woodworking’s 31 Days of Christmas 2013 was….. Richard Wienhold! Congratulations to Richard for winning a Custom-made Hanging Tool Cabinet AND a $1,000 Gift Card from Lee Valley Tools.  Richard has a Lee Valley wish list already filled and ready to go! Richard grew up woodworking with his Dad but got serious about woodworking over the last 6 years. Richard focuses in on hand tool […]

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