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Gary and Vic join Ben and discuss fancy scrapers, the durability of veneer, projects that instill a love of woodworking, and Gary declares his life's greatest love.

In a certain medical clinic in Wisconsin, there’s a sliding door that features a marquetry mural by Spider Johnson and Cindy Goldman.

Around December last year, I started brainstorming the old-fashioned New Year’s resolutions. I want to read more, just not Vonnegut for the 15th time.

The art of carving incised lettering is both a valuable skill for a professional woodworker and an instructive practice for beginners.

I wanted to turn some bowls but couldn't afford a large slab of hardwood, so I turned to pieces of glued-up wood. Here are my results.

Amanda and Anissa welcome new FWW staffer Owen Madden to the show to discuss working in a cabinet shop, bandsaw blades, and more. Also, Ben is joined by Logan Wittmer to talk about the upcoming Woodworking In America event.

These two books and one video set Ben Strano on a new course. Maybe you’ll be just as lucky as he was.

Celebrating and considering the woodworkers featured in our 50th-anniversary issue of Fine Woodworking. Find out the masters of the craft in issue #317.

George Sawyer's father, Dave, is a pivotal figure in the renaissance of green-wood and Windsor chairmaking. George’s company, Sawyer Made, has absorbed his father’s example but takes Windsors in a different direction. “I don’t know what the Shakers would think,” George says, “but I like it.”

When Justin Nelson started Fernweh Woodworking in Bend, Ore., in 2014, he was coming off four years in the Marine Corps and then a season on a Forest Service Hotshot crew fighting wildfires. A couple of years in, he was introduced to Sam Maloof’s work. “It boggled my mind,” he says. And it convinced him to turn his business toward furniture.