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3 days ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/popwood_logos-01.pngPopular Woodworkinghttps://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/newtools-3copy.jpg200px200px It pains me to admit this, but I am a lousy woodworking dad. My oldest son (age 10) occasionally asks me to help him build something.
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1 week ago | 
woodsmith.com | Logan Wittmer
Working with rough-sawn lumber a lot, means time with the jointer — and push blocks. However, the rubber faces of standard push blocks wear out pretty fast against rough boards, and they don’t grip the wood all that well. If you've experienced this, try using truss repair mending plates. The sharp points on the plate grip the board and never wear out. Just attach the plate by drilling some small holes and screwing it to the push block.
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3 weeks ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Collin Knoff |Logan Wittmer |Phil Huber
Welcome to The Splinter Report, where I gather the assorted interesting and amusing things I’ve seen in the woodworking world. This week we’re looking at a reader submission, NIOSH under fire, and an amazing joinery company out of the UK. Grizzly Announces Customer Appreciation and Tent Sale Event: On June 6th and 7th, you can visit Grizzly Industrial in Springfield, MO to score big savings on tools, as well as watch woodworking demos and more.
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3 weeks ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer
This small linen chest can be made in batches, and the lid presents some fun challenges during the process. Project #2502 • Skill Level: Intermediate • Time: 2 Days • Cost: $20Inspiration for a project can come from anywhere. Take this linen chest for example. I was recently visiting a friend of mine at his home a few hours away. Norman, who you may recall me talking about in an editor letter a few issues back, was showing me a few of the projects that he had built over the years.
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1 month ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/popwood_logos-01.pngPopular Woodworkinghttps://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/newtools-3.jpg200px200px Tool: Router Plane Manufacturer: Blue Spruce ToolworksMSRP: $269.99One of the benefits of being in my position, is that I sometimes get to see tools that are in the works before they get released to the public.
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1 month ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/popwood_logos-01.pngPopular Woodworkinghttps://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kbsnewtools-copy-2.jpg200px200px Tool: DiamondFinish Clear Manufacturer: KBS CoatingsMSRP: $28+It’s not often that a new type of finish is brought to the woodworking market. Recently, KBS Coatings, a company specializing in industrial coatings, started to make a push to bring their Diamond Clear finish to the home hobby woodworking market.
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1 month ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer
Set your bandsaw up for accurate resawing by following these simple setup tips. A bandsaw is a versatile tool. In fact, I know many woodworkers that use a bandsaw as their primary saw in their shop. It can cut curves, joinery, rip parts to width. It’s my belief however, that the bandsaw’s most valuable and unique skill set is one of it’s least used—and that’s resawing. Resawing—splitting material into several thinner pieces, may be done for several reasons.
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1 month ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/popwood_logos-01.pngPopular Woodworkinghttps://www.popularwoodworking.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/jet-copy.jpg200px200px Tool: Black 8″ Helical-Head Jointer JWJ-8HH-BLK Manufacturer: JetMSRP: $2499.99The company JPW (Jet, Powermatic, Wilton) has a long, rich history of offering quality, well-built power tools. (Note the side of my vintage Powermatic Planer in the photo above—circa early 1980’s, still running like the day it was new).
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Logan Wittmer
Novitec Ferrari Purosangue Lowered on RDB Wheels Might Be the First One Done in AmericaLost in between news of the first Lamborghini Urus SE delivery, a bespoke one, of course, the custom ideas for the Rolls-Royce Cullinan Series II, …
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1 month ago | 
popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer
Devon Campbell is designing and building world-class tools from his shop in Queensland. Sometimes, the universe has a way of connecting the dots, whether you’re looking for it to or not. Back before the last Handworks Tool Show in the Amana Colonies, I was browsing some of the Facebook groups, seeing who was attending. Someone, and I apologize—I can’t recall who, mentioned that there was a last minute addition to the show, a company called Ironbark Toolworks.
