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When speaking with a lawyer friend one day, he was telling me one of the most common questions he was asked had to do with getting sued.  Someone would ask…

It’s a question we get asked regularly, and have tried to answer as many times as asked, and have included many brands of power tools and battery technology.  We’ve written…

We have an article about the must-have tools a beginner should plan to have in his woodworking shop.  We wrote this article with the woodworking hobbyist and enthusiast in mind…

Polycrylic finish can be a good choice for woodworking projects and has several very desirable advantages: What is not to like about any of this? And yet, there may be…

You know how a professional sports team can, on paper, appear to be better than another professional sports team?  How many times have we read that about a team we…

The human body becomes acclimatized to the environment in which we spend most of our time.  We often hear about blood “thickening” in colder climates, and we get used to…

In matters of science and cutting-edge experiments, especially dangerous cutting-edge stuff, ethicists tell us we should ask two questions:  can we do this, and should we do this?  Dangers can…

In a previous article, we asked the question of whether something that was hard can also be soft.  In this article, we ask in the reverse:  can something that is…

We’ve all used plywood for some project or another in our woodworking shop or in a home DIY project.  It’s real wood but much less expensive than solid wood, and…

Can something that is hard also be soft?  While that may sound like a Zen question, it actually is a legitimate question when it comes to wood and woodworking.   We’ve…

Home woodworking enthusiasts, us included, work with polyurethane often.  It’s an easy-to-apply, easy-to-use wood finish that is a suitable topcoat for both stained and painted pieces and is inexpensive.  We’ve…

We like polyurethane. We use polyurethane a lot on our projects. It provides a durable and hard protective sheet of plastic on the wood and shields it from water spills,…

The cutting boards in our kitchen get a lot of work.  That’s boards, plural.  There’s one for poultry, another for red and white meats, and a third for vegetables.  The…

Green has become a popular color in the past decade for a number of reasons.  The term “green” often refers to something that is environmentally friendly; green tea has risen…

If you’ve had trees removed from your yard, chances are some of that tree was run through a chipper.  While one run through the chipper creates a coarse mulch, a…

Any rumors about the Festool Domino’s patent expiring soon are patently false.  Bad word game there, patent/patently, but if you did hear such a rumor, it would be, at the…

In a discussion about a spiral cutterhead and helical cutterheads, it’s important to first discuss whether the woodworking shop tool inventory should include a planer and a jointer.  Although we…

I once had a teak bench in my garden.  It was lovely, and over time it acquired the gray color it is known for after aging.  I still treated it…

Today we’re going to spruce things up a bit – you know, make it neat or smart in appearance.  That’s an old phrase that goes back to the 1300s, when…

Even though the warp drives in Star Trek lore were merely make-believe and came from Ray Bradbury’s imagination, engineers and scientists today appear to be close to a warp drive…