Woodworking Posts

I’ve long been looking for the perfect rug for my dining room (which may become my shop if I can’t soon find the perfect house in my price range, but that’s a story for another day), so I regularly troll a local online auction site, on which I can’t seem to keep from looking at … Read more »

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NEW! Lower Profile!Finally, a series of clamping guides that don’t get in the way of your tools!This value set includes three contractor-grade All in One Clamps (24″, 36″ and 50″) at one incredible price. With rigid, lightweight construction and a zero-deflection design, they make ideal straight-edge saw guides, router guides, measuring tools, marking aids and,

In the great battle to make the best router plane (what, you weren’t aware of the war?), Lie-Nielsen has raised the stakes by introducing two new closed-throat routers. For those of you who don’t follow router plane minutiae like I do, the throat of a router plane can be either open or closed. Closed-throat routers,

 ‘Some folks carve their reputations, others just chisel and gouge.’   Chisels and gouges are two very important tools groups the first of which is a very common woodworking tool. A chisel as a flat blade to cut flat straight work and a gouge has a curved blade to cut curved and other shapes. Chisels

I was in a rock ‘n’ roll band in college, and we dreamed about getting a record deal, selling dozens of copies of our album and ending up in the cut-out bin. For those of you who aren’t music nerds, the cut-out bin is where a record store puts albums that have been dumped on