Weekly Editorial

  • WJ’s First “Online Chat” a Success

    As some of you may know, last Sunday night we hosted our very first online chat here at the Woodworker’s Journal. I must admit to some pre-chat jitters.

  • Too Much of a Good Thing?

    If you’re reading this week’s eZine on the actual day that it’s issued, you’ll be reading it on Valentine’s Day. The day of love for reading about the hobby you love: how cool is that?

  • Learning to Woodwork

    A question that I like to ask fellow woodworkers from time to time is: how did you begin woodworking? I was nearly born into the craft, as my dad and uncle owned a woodworking business.

  • Homebound Fever

    Rob’s dreams of summer inspire a fresh pairing of fishing and woodworking.

  • A New Year of Woodworking

    One advantage of reaching the august age of 50 years old is that I have become comfortable with my flaws and humble regarding my talents.

  • Postcards from the Future

    Last eZine I talked about turning 50 and asked the faithful what was in store for me as I (hopefully) continued to check off birthdays into the future.

  • The Way of All Flesh (and Woodworkers)

    This coming Sunday, December 11th, is my 50th birthday. Which is of no great importance in the big scheme of things, but growing older has affected my woodworking.

  • Little Shop of Horrors

    Some of you, with better memories than I possess, may remember that this summer – with much determination and bravado — I declared a firm date of the end of September to clean up my garage. (With the idea being that I could set it up properly as a workshop.) It turned out to be a stroke of good fortune that I failed to assign a year notation to that September deadline.

  • The Winner Is?

    It may be because we are blessed with an excellent public education system, or because we are cursed with exceptionally long and foul winters – but regardless of the cause – Minnesota is a publishing hotbed.

  • Just JETing Along!

    This special eZine is sponsored by WMH Tools … which you probably know better as JET, Powermatic, Performax and Wilton. When I read Michael Dresdner’s interview with WMH’s Steve Erbach, they talked about the long history of these companies, which threw me for a bit of a loop.