The Village Carpenter

There is no shame in building nailed furniture. It's been with us a long time. In fact, nailed furniture goes all the way back to the ...

We arrived on Thursday, the 29th—two women, three days, 10 pieces of luggage, a cooler, and one yoga mat—ready for our woodworking adventure...

Nik Brown has organized an opening night extravaganza at a local bar near the WIA convention center. It's being billed as a blogger ...

Scrub plane. I am not a masochist. I don't really like pain or discomfort . But when you need to mill rough cut boards—none of wh...

Reach for a cabinet scraper. Because I rarely work with ornery wood, this tool does not see much action in my shop. But when you're wo...

We're in the home stretch for the Woodworking In America: The Ultimate Joinery Weekend conference. If you've been riding the fen...

Based on sage advice from friends, I bought soft maple for the base of my bench rather than poplar. I wasn't able to get 16/4, so I'...

I believe I have the dimensions sorted out for my new workbench. Thanks to Chris Schwarz' two workbench books and the dimensions he prov...