Weekly Editorial

  • What’s Your Favorite Wood?

    In order to have a favorite of something, you must have an extended and intimate experience with whatever the object of your affection is.

  • Be Active…Do Good

    World events continue to dominate the news and our lives. To a news junkie like myself (I know all the names of NPR reporters by heart), it is only an adjustment of degree as I keep an ear to the radio and my fingers on my keyboard.

  • Woodworking: Part of the Cure?

    How important is woodworking really, when world events move in such momentous and life changing ways? Questioning the essential elements of our lives is a reasonable thing to do in the face of these difficult times.

  • Autumn Arrives with Sadness

    It is a truism that every new friendship brings the certainty of joy and sorrow. Our community of woodworking lost two good souls this last week, and we will be less because of it.

  • How Much Web in Your Woodworking?

    I’ve got a question…How much of your woodworking information do you get from the Internet? Personally, I tend to surf the web for one main reason… I’m an instant gratification kinda guy.

  • Gentlemen (and Ladies) … Start Your Engines!

    The woodworking season (for those of you who like to slack off during the summer months) is just about upon us.

  • Free Plans!

    One of the most common questions I receive is “do you have a plan that will teach me how to make a (fill in the blank)”? I’ve been asked how to build projects ranging from birdhouses to windmills and everything in between.

  • 25 Years and Going Strong!

    Woodworker’s Journal is celebrating its 25th anniversary in the upcoming September/October 2001 issue.

  • We’ve Gone Finishing

    Rob offers an apology (of sorts) for the slow summer woodworking season.

  • Focus Like a Laser

    In our last eZine, I had the opportunity to tell you about Craftsman’s new laser guided miter saw. A good many of you took me to task on my assertion that this was the first miter saw to feature such a gizmo as a standard feature.