Win a FREE Cyclops Toolguard All you have to do is come up with some creative ways you would use this alarm. You can post the comments either below or in the other two areas: Cyclops Toolguard Review Cyclops Toolgaurd YouTube Video We will announce the winner on Feb 29, 2012 Good Luck Tools [...]
I’ve always been intrigued about the history of the way some English-trained woodworkers set out their dovetail joints using dividers. I first learned to use this method – which I love – from Rob Cosman. He learned it from legendary craftsman Alan Peters. But where did Peters learn it from? I don’t know, so I’m [...]
Travel is something that can be exciting at any age. However for children, it can be especially exciting, particularly if it is their first travel experience. In some cases, you may not have had time to acquire a passport for your child but this does not mean you will have to alter your plans. It [...]
We’re looking for a handful of amusing and/or thought-provoking articles for our End Grain feature (the last editorial page in every issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine). So, we’re running a contest. The writer of the best submission (in the editors’ collective opinion) will not only get paid for the article (0, plus for an [...] [...]
A couple months back I stumbled onto a bundle of harness leather scraps at a flea market and snapped it up. I was working on a new six-drawer sideboard and it gave me a chance to try out an idea that I had years ago for a shop-made drawer pull. I figured making the pulls [...]
There is a substance that can make people feel like their life is out of control and they can no longer maintain the quality of life they once had. This substance almost instantly turns the person using it into an addict that continuously wants more. Very quickly, a person will spend money that they really [...]
Ahhhh the smell of new carpeting. Who doesn’t love that smell, well besides the guys who lay carpeting everyday. OK, you have new carpeting and now your door rubs against the carpeting preventing the door from opening all the way. You have three options. Leave the door closed forever, buy a new door or cut [...]
Router bits that are guided by ball bearings make it possible to add a profile to a curved edge. If the entire piece is curved, it makes sense to do this shaping on the router table. The tricky part is getting the cut started. When you push the uncut edge into the spinning cutter, it [...]
Many people drink alcohol at parties and also at other social gatherings yet it is a mild drug. Many are trapped into the use of alcohol because they consider it a tool for socializing. In normal circumstances, they will stop by the bar each evening and usually have bottles of wine and spirits in their [...]
Readers in the New York area shouldn’t miss the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit “Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York,” which is slated to run through May 6, 2012. Whether you make it to the exhibit or not, take a look at the museum’s video of Maine woodworker Allan Breed turning and carving water [...]