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Quintessential Phil: a welcoming smile and the ever-present pencil tucked behind his ear at the December, 2011 Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event a...

Woodworking With Hand Tools: Tools, Techniques and Projects, The Taunton Press, $24.95, 240pp, April, 2018 Full disclosure: I was given a...

The new woodworking books are here, the new woodworking books are here! 20 copies fresh from the publisher. I like to give credit where c...

The Lie-Nielsen tools on display and available to try out. Last Friday and Saturday, December 4th and 5th, was another great Lie-Nielsen ...

I finally finished up the video below that I recorded of Philip C. Lowe, founder of the Furniture Institute Of Massachusetts , demonstrating...

This young man intently testing the Lie-Nielsen tools told me he reads the blog, but I neglected to get his name. I gave him a demonstratio...

Phil Lowe prepares to route the field for an inlay on a leg. Yesterday I attended a meeting of the  Society of American Period Furniture...

Phil Lowe hands out fresh spiral shavings to passers-by. Dana Smith gets ready to help out for the evening inside the booth. This weekend...