Article: Woodworking news updates

Check in with us as we look at new woodworking tools coming to market and exciting industry news.

Article: Our favorite mortising jigs

The Fine Woodworking staff shares some of their favorite mortising jigs covered in the magazine and website.

Gallery: The artistry of toolmaking 

Eleanor Rose has refurbished her fair share of tools, but her artistry speaks when she’s making her own specialized tools. In this gallery, she shares some of her favorites.

Video: No lathe, no problem

You can make authentic-looking Shaker knobs without a lathe. All it takes is a drill press, a tenon cutter, and a few rasps and files.

Article: Steel wool vs. abrasive pads

In this Issue, we put sandpaper under the microscope. In a related article, Jeff Jewitt uses photos from an optical microscope to reveal the scratch patterns left by steel wool and abrasive pads.

How to sharpen a scorp

Chris Schwarz demonstrates two ways to sharpen a weird tool.

Video Workshop: Replicating a legend’s side chair

Dan Faia painstakingly documents and builds a replica of a Queen Anne chair made in the 1980s by one of his mentors, Phil Lowe. In this series, you’ll learn how to:

• Extract information from a museum piece and create exacting full-size plans
• Create strong mortise-and-tenon joinery on a complex form
• Shape cabriole legs accurately and repeatably