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Plumb Your Shop With AIr
by American Woodworker Editors Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Flexible Hose Saves Time and Money by Richard Tendick Moments after I tripped over the air hose and dropped an armload of boards, I decided it was time to plumb my shop for air. I was tired of having 50 ft. of hose on the floor and dashing back to the...
7 Classic Ways to Store Clamps
by American Woodworker Editors Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Conquer Your Clamp Conundrums with These Simple Solutions by Tim Johnson “You can’t have too many clamps,” a wise cabinetmaker once told me. That’s certainly true, but in a small shop, you can easily run out of room to store them...
Heavy-Duty Folding Shop Table
by American Woodworker Editors Monday, August 31, 2009
by Tom Caspar Need more bench space? Who doesn’t? Here’s a terrific solution: a folding worktable that’s both big and strong. And we mean strong. You can set it up in only a minute and be ready for routing, sanding, planing—you...
Hyper-Organize Your Shop
by American Woodworker Editors Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A Hook-And-Slat Wall System Puts Everything At Your Fingertips By Jock Holmen I’ve struggled with the clutter in my small garage shop for years. Recently my neighbor remodeled his garage using a commercial wall-slat system. That gave me an idea...
Convenient Benchtop Protection
by AW-Editor Thursday, January 29, 2009
My workbench is beautiful and I want to keep it that way, so I cover the top with builder's paper ($7/140-ft. roll at my local home center) whenever I'm gluing or staining. But the heavy roll was hard to handle and a nuisance to store until I...
Sloyd Knife
by AW-Editor Friday, October 24, 2008
Sloyd Knife At left, the proper stance for Sloydwhittling is shown in Sloyd for the Upper Grammar Grades, by Gustaf Larsson, 1911.At right, the Sloyd knife recommended byOtto Salomon in The Teacher'sHand- Book of Slöjd, 1904,was slightly different...
Paper Sloyd
by AW-Editor Friday, October 24, 2008
Paper Sloyd At left, two of the 45 models for the three primary grades.At right, the first year projects.Models were selected to be useful and fun and presented in order of difficulty (upper left to lower right) tomatch the child's growing abilities...
Nass
by AW-Editor Friday, October 24, 2008
Nass Going west as it enters the outskirts of Gothenburg, the E20 highway from Stockholmis one of the busiest in 21st century Sweden. It is easy to be consumed by the rapid pace of traffic, small cars and large trucks, but if you were to look to your...
Educational Sloyd
by AW-Editor Friday, October 24, 2008
Educational Sloyd Put a young man in a woodshop, his hands work to the advantage of his brain and he becomes a philosopher while thinking himself only a craftsman.—Jean Jacques Rousseau In the fall of 2001, I was a brand new part-time woodshop teacher...
Beginning Sloyd Woodworking in an elementary school
by AW-Editor Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Beginning Sloyd Woodworking in an elementary school The Sloyd system of woodworking education, introduced to the United States during the last part of the 19th century, was designed to be part of general education. Unlike vocational programs, which were...
School News:Big Show in Michigan
by AW-Editor Tuesday, September 23, 2008
School News:Big Show in Michigan Woodworking students strut their stuff at the annual MITES Convention and Exhibition. what's keeping public school woodshop programs vibrant these days? In Michigan, the answer is MITES, the Michigan Industrial...
School News:Virginia Students Build 1000 Toy Trucks for Charity
by AW-Editor Tuesday, September 23, 2008
School News:Virginia Students Build 1000 Toy Trucks for Charity I teach construction technology at Forest Park High School in Woodbridge, Virginia. I love woodworking, and working with wood is a large part of the construction industry, so I've tried...
School News:Helping Teens Learn Life Skills through Boatbuilding
by AW-Editor Tuesday, September 23, 2008
School News:Helping Teens Learn Life Skills through Boatbuilding Traditional wooden boatbuilding is uncommon, even here in Minnesota, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.” The handful of woodworkers that practice boatbuilding are often drawn to...
School News:The New England Association of Woodworking Teachers
by AW-Editor Tuesday, September 23, 2008
In the late 1990s, Jack Grube's woodshop program at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire was successful—well equipped, generously funded and fully enrolled. But as a dedicated teacher, Jack wanted to make it better. So he visited other...
School News:Colfax High School
by AW-Editor Tuesday, September 23, 2008
School News:Colfax High School When I was a college student, I worked at a cabinet shop. The shop's owner was a gifted craftsman, but he knew very little math. After I taught him basic right-triangle trigonometry, he was amazed how easy it was to...

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