Close Grain

Book cover, showing the plane till in my basement workshop. If you'd like a copy of my book, Hand Tool Basics , published by Popular ...

Using holdfasts to hold a piece of walnut for rabbetting the edge. Workholding For Hand Tools Why go beyond the vise? Most workbenches...

The apartment workbench. When I was demonstrating at the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event earlier this month , talking to a number of people, ...

How many workbenches do I need? I have my large Schwarz/Roubo workbench in the basement, my Roy Underhill portable workbench that I take t...

Paul Sellers' Working Wood book and DVDs, and one of my practice dovetails using his method. Paul Sellers has released an excellent a...

I'm happy to report that I've had two sessions with my first private instruction student, Larry Ciccolo. Larry, I'd like to tha...