Popular Woodworking Magazine

1 week ago | popularwoodworking.com | Collin Knoff

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 the antithesis of a normal YouTube Video, a garden cart from 1988, and trying to figure out what exactly constitutes a tool chest. Blue Spruce Toolworks Launches Woodworker’s Straight Edge: A lot of woodworking and tool setup is about making sure something is dead-flat. But how do you do that without something flat as a baseline?

1 week ago | popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer

Tool:Drill Press Protractor  Manufacturer: WoodpeckersMSRP: $69.99Over the last several years, I’ve started to become interested in machinist tools and practices. One of the things that fascinates me is the precision that is required in many machining operations. I’ve started to apply those principles to my woodworking, and have seen a noticeable difference in the quality of my work.

2 weeks ago | popularwoodworking.com | Collin Knoff

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 bad stock photography, nail guns, and building a chair from bulls%$t. Metabo HPT Release 5 New Nail Guns: It’s been a quiet week in the tool launch space, but not entirely dead. Metabo HPT launched 5 new nail guns on their MultiVolt system, mostly with a focus on construction, but with some carpentry applications mixed in.

2 weeks ago | popularwoodworking.com | Collin Knoff

We’re interviewing makers from across the country. Today we’re featuring Mehedi van Hattum, a woodworker from New Mexico. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? My biggest inspiration and mentor in life is my father, who is a master woodworker/carpenter. I grew up apprenticing under him, learning his craft and working in his shop through high school and college. What do you think is your best or favorite work? What kind of work do you do the most?

2 weeks ago | popularwoodworking.com | Logan Wittmer

This fence is designed to be used at a drill press or router table, and features built-in dust collection for keeping your shop, and lungs, clean. Project #2505 • Skill Level: Beginner • Time: 2 Days • Cost: $20If you ask me what my favorite tool in my shop is, I would have never guessed that I would have said it is my dust collector.