Woodworking Posts

I announced the winners during the keynote session at Woodworking in America last Saturday, and the digital version of the November 2015 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine e-mailed late yesterday (check your in-box if you’re a susbcriber). So forthwith I give you the winners of the 2015 PWM Excellence Awards. Please join me in congratulating: Grand Prize: Sharon Mehrman, of Florence, Mass. Her maple burl Art-Nouveau-inspired Thread Chest is pictured […]

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As I get more experienced with Woodworking, I have found finishing to be one of the most intimidating topics. How am I, or anyone for that matter, supposed to be comfortable with finishing when there are so many choices? Having the knowledge and skills to know the proper ways to finish a project, which type of finish works best for wood types, and how a piece will look with a […]

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You’ve been there before – a gap in a mitered frame, an expensive board cut a fraction too short, maybe even chopped a mortise on the wrong side. You might have even measured twice…but good intentions aren’t going to save that piece of expensive lumber. In “Marking & Measuring: 11 Articles to Help You Zero In on Perfect Work,” our newest digital magazine, we’ve collected 11 articles from the Popular Woodworking Magazine and Woodworking Magazine archives that will help you avoid […]

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For me, as well as for many other woodworkers (see Graham Haydon’s recent entry on his chisel), eBay is a great resource for good-quality tools. When an item is well described, correctly identified and accurately photographed, the risk we take by bidding is small – yet it is very likely that the bidding war will be fierce and the concluding price will be high. On the other hand, there will […]

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I had fancied making some wooden try squares for a while and reading Joshua Klein’s post on Romanticizing Tools was a final nudge to get them done. Before embarking upon making them I also made the time to catch up with Roy Underhill & Chris Schwarz on the Woodright’s Shop where Chris demonstrates how he makes the squares found in Benjamin Seaton’s famous tool chest. You can also search Chris’ blog to […]

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This week, at Woodworking in America in Kansas City, Mo., a saw almost a century old will find a new home with the winner of the Crosscuts Event at the Hand Tool Olympics (HTO). The HTO events – held in the WIA Marketplace at the Sheraton Crown Center, 2345 McGee Street in Kansas City – tests participants’ skills in ripping, crosscutting, augering, dovetailing, shooting an edge and making a tenon. […]

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