I used to have the hardest time getting a clean exit hole when I was drilling through wood. A good set of lipped brad points, or the Wood...

By the beginning of this year, my most often used chisel, an A2 Steel, 1/2 inch Lie-Nielsen Bevel Edge Socket Chisel, had reached the end...

It's a strange thing for me to say, but I've missed woodworking shows. Mostly because... I get exhausted. I'm an introvert. I come home...

I'm nearing completion of the most recent batch of shave horses. Since the plans and parts are all fresh in my head (and I'm nearly out...

I was cleaning up the shop a little while back and found a half dozen packing tubes with Shave Horse plans already inside them. Now that...

Yesterday I actually groaned out loud as I clicked the title of the newsletter I received from Lee Valley... "Make a Backyard Bar Using...

I've made a handful of videos for the students of my Workbench Class (at Home) students that I consider to be Core Skills. So, after some...

UPDATE: This workbench has sold - I don't usually build workbenches on spec, but I needed to build one for my Workbench Class (at Home)...

I'm sorry about locking you all out of the Sharpening Video this morning. Apparently you can't have a video that is both "Unlisted" and...

Nearly all of my plane irons are ground to a custom shape. My jointer is no exception. It’s not flat, but it’s not cambered either. In...

Reading the grain, and carefully choosing the stock that gets driven into the joint, should always be a part of your process.

If it's a bevel up plane and it's in my shop, it's going to get sharpened to 40 degrees and the back of the blade is going to get the...

Last week I filmed the process of cleaning up the shoulder of a mortise and tenon joint for my Workbench Class (at Home) students. My...

It's modified version of the original system, but it seems like the kind of thing that any workbench builder might benefit from knowing.

The geometry of bevel up planes requires an adjustment to how you think about camber.

There are some very old companies who used to make sweet tools. But I wouldn't get your heart set on owning any of their new stuff.

Continuing on with my Core Skills video series, I've got a new one that shows how I set up a brand new bench chisel. It features a 1/2...

Your planing stop is better with teeth! Here's another reason why...

Over the next few weeks I'll be spending most of my blog writing time either filming or editing videos for use in my upcoming Workbench...

If you don't have a planing stop in your bench, you should get one. And if you have a stop, but it doesn't have teeth, you should get...