When toolmakers first offered hard plastic cases with their tools, I rejoiced. I thought they were wonderful. Now, not so much. (more…)

My son-in-law and I just became enablers: We’ve outfitted my daughter with an arsenal of woodworking tools. (more…)

I don’t toss things that may become useful later. On the one hand I have a lot of stuff squirreled away, but my hoarding habit just let me make the fastest router-storage drawer ever. (more…)

There’s a very basic principle that applied to a band saw problem I just fixed. But whether the rule came from Holmes or Occam, I don’t recall. (more…)

It’s an interesting feeling completing the last project that’s part of a series. Not sure how it works for you, but for me the last project is always a reflection on the first. (more…)

I could be the richest woodworker around (and you could, too) if only I had a dime for every time … (more…)

It’s an indisputable law of woodworking that you can’t have too many clamps, but that rule doesn’t always apply to other tools. In fact, the opposite is true. (more…)

Whenever you do something for the first time, you always learn things. The trick is knowing which of those things is most important. My daughter knew immediately. (more…)

I’ll bet you’ve done this before: You see a potential risk of doing something a certain way, and recognize the potential bad result. You do it anyway. (more…)

David DeCristoforo is 100 percent correct in last Friday’s blog on buying local and how it helps the economy. But what happens if you can’t – is the bad economy your fault? (more…)