Author name: Enthusiast

An eagle-eyed reader spotted this small benchtop that looks like the bigger Danish brother to the portable Milkman’s Workbench I wrote about in the June 2013 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. This benchtop was made by LEVARD, a company in Denmark that still manufactures workbenches. I’ve seen LEVARD workbenches in Europe and even the United … Read more »

The post A Cousin to the ‘Milkman’s Workbench’ appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

There’s something challenging about simplifying complexities that pulls something out of me. Years ago, a young apprentice I worked with was jumping through many hoops to make faceted stars for inlaying. Fingers and sticks inches from the chop saw blade gave me the willies. Of course you can set up machines to do this safely, … Read more »

The post Make a Decorative Star with Paul Sellers appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

As editors, we search our two web sites (popularwoodworking.com and shopwoodworking.com) constantly for information for the online extras portion of all  articles and most columns – the information, we hope, is both relevant and interesting. While searching the sites, I often come across books, articles and DVDs that have scads of interesting information, including tips … Read more »

The post Video Short with Matt Cianci appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Getting started on a project is to me the most exciting time. I get to play with the design, dig through piles of lumber looking for just the right stock and contemplate all the little choices that need to made along the way. For my current project (which will appear in the April issue of … Read more »

The post Figured Lumber & the Gentle Art of Furniture Making appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Jerome Bias, the joiner at Old Salem (in Winston-Salem, N.C.), sent us a press release about a cool two-day finishing/color theory workshop he’s organized for February 8th and 9th, 2014, at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA). They still need a few participants for the class to happen, so if you’re in the … Read more »

The post Workshop: ‘Even the Blotchy Stuff: Staining & Finising Wood Without Fear’ appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

This weekend, I read that the British Library has uploaded to Flickr Commons images from books and periodicals from the 17th-19th centuries, as part of the “Unseen Illustrations” project. They are available for use and repurpose in any way. I’ve had time only to look at a few pages worth of images; there are 10,200 … Read more »

The post Pictures/Words/Thousands appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.