Woodworking Posts

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to alert you to a new threat to the craft of woodworking we love so well. They are not as canvas- and perspective-deprived as the dreaded saw painters. Nor are they as destructive as the “make these moulding planes into lamps” crafters. But they are a threat nonetheless. Today […]

I am pleased to announce that ShopWoodworking.com now sells “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” a book that took me two years to write. And the process of writing this book so changed my perspective on the world that I stepped down as editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The book has its critics, and I imagine you’ll

I have made a couple of small patterns for casting in silver and one in brass but this is my first patterns for casting steel.  Steel shrinks 1/4″ per foot when it is cast, these are built to the exact size of the drawings, and because they are small there will be little shrinkage. The

Though I like to work out of a full-size tool chest (38” x 24” x 24”), it’s obvious that a chest like that would be too big for a job-site carpenter or for someone who needs to do only household repairs. So during the 18th and 19th centuries, ironmongers offered a range of tool chests

I started working on this wheel back in April when I first posted about this wheel.  I have posted about its repairs since and am continuing to work on the &%#$#* modern glue repair on the rim of the wheel. I repaired the last of 3 bobbins only one was undamaged.  This one had a