Tools and Workspace
Workbench Height and How to Set It for Your Body
Your lower back aches after an hour of sanding, or your shoulders burn after a session of hand planing, and you assume it is...
Blog
Every project note we have published, newest first. Finished pieces, failed attempts, and the occasional argument with advice that sounds tidy and falls apart at the workbench.
Tools and Workspace
Your lower back aches after an hour of sanding, or your shoulders burn after a session of hand planing, and you assume it is...
Sewing and Textiles
You finished a whole shirt, and now the last step, five little buttonholes, is the part that scares you.
Paper and Mixed Media
You smooth a magazine scrap onto the page, it looks flat for ten seconds, and then a row of little ridges creeps across it as...
Craft Business
You sold forty pieces at the spring fair, a dozen more online, and somehow you cannot say whether the year made money.
Woodworking
You glued up a tabletop that was dead flat on Saturday, and by the following month it had cupped, a joint had opened or a...
Upcycling
The chairs are solid, the frames are fine, but the seats are stained, flat and covered in a fabric that went out of style...