So your project is all put together and now you need to finish it? Here's 5 tips to help you along in the process. 1. Start with a good brush. The most important thing to consider in...

Being a semi-recent convert to hobbyist woodworking, the number of tips/concepts I've been able to discover are not as numerous as other woodworkers of longer tenure. But I can remember when I...

A few of my projects have been made from plans, which I've purchased from one of the fine organizations which supply great designs and plans. But more often than not, my needs were too...

The following is an examination of when and how (and why) to hand plane rough wood boards. Hand Planing vs. Power Planing Most woodworkers think of "planing a board" to mean running it...

Given a blade of diameter D inches, revolving at a rate of R rpm, a point on the perimeter of the blade will travel the length of the circumference C each revolution. Speed = distance / timeC = pi...

It has always been a heart-breaker for me to be invited by a fellow woodworker to check out a finish project and upon close examination discover that every single fastener used in the project was...