The Village Carpenter

When I'm in "the zone", it can be difficult to resist the desire to glue up a project before I add finish to inside pieces of ...

15 years ago that we would have the abundance of information that's freely available to us on the internet today. Any questions you hav...

Believe it or not, this blog was never meant to be exclusive to hand tools. Power tools were included in the orginal plan (albeit, only a li...

Jim Whetstone (how's that for a cool last name?), of New Cumberland, PA, makes and sells woodworking projects which include beautiful g...

I just finished reading The Wooden Bowl , a book written by Robin Wood . If you're not familiar with Robin, he's a woodturner and ...

If you're working with long boards, you'll probably want to make a set of winding sticks. But if you're working with shorter pie...

...is sometimes the most dull. By "tool" I mean brains and by "dull" I mean mine. "If you don't have time to d...

In pop music, the "hook" refers to the part of a song that is most memorable or catchy. It's the part you wait for—the particu...