Blogs
Featuring posts from our editorial staff and contributing writers.
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Is It Good Enough?
As many years as I’ve been woodworking, there are now several nice heirlooms furnishing my home.
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Shooting Long Boards with a Shooting ‘Bench’
A shooting board is a handy tool for planing straight and square edges on a board. But what about a board that is six or eight feet long, that won’t fit on most shooting boards?
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Good Tools Make a Better Me
I have two sets of measuring tools in the tool chest. One comes out for those carpentry jobs or marking rough stock. That’s about it.
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Using Drift Pins
I recently made an outdoor picnic table, and deliberately left gaps between adjacent planks.
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A Season of Little Woodworking
As you might imagine, with a job title like mine, I get asked what kind of woodworking I do. The truthful answer is: not much, these days.
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Japanese Saws
Last summer a local fisherman, visiting my island workshop in Nova Scotia, picked up a new Japanese saw lying on the bench.
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The Yankee Screwdriver
I haven’t met anybody, adult or child, woodworker or not, who doesn’t like a Yankee screwdriver.
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Back to School
You are never too old to go back to school—woodworking school, that is.
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Drill Holes
When I worked as a shipwright in Maine, I occasionally had to drill holes through a board from one side and exit in the middle of the other side.
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Gravity Wins
One of the reasons my wife and I bought our current home is the two-acre margin of woods that surrounds our lawn.
