Among my favorite lathe projects is a lamp. They’re not difficult, but I recommend proficiency in using a skew chisel. Turning a lamp is basically turning a spindle. I may incur the wrath of bowl ...

In this video I try my hand at carving a traditional Wagatabon style tray from a single block of wood, using only a couple of gouges and a bench stop. I was inspired by the Wagatani Village makers who ...

In this video, the creator showcases a personal project of building a sign for their logo using poplar wood. The process involves routing material between the letters and hand-carving with chisels and ...

A pair of naturalists spent weeks in the wilds of South Florida in the 1930s, braving alligators and snakes to find and photograph wetland and wading birds like the gangly wood stork. Unlike many of ...

Why Ron Swanson Was a Woodworker The show “Parks and Recreation” used the woodshop — and woodworking skills — of the actor Nick Offerman, who played Ron Swanson, on its set. On “The Wirecutter Show,” ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

Most days, Chris LaReau of Savannah can be found piddling in his garage, which doubles as his woodworking shop. In fact, on a recent day LaReau was in his shop checking out a couple of dozen or so ...

In Agra, a 12-year-old girl suffered permanent vision loss in one eye after her aunt allegedly attacked her with a steel hairband. The incident occurred when the girl accidentally dropped the aunt's ...

A terrifying illness that dominated the world for an entire decade is still leaving doctors perplexed. Half a million people lost their lives to the mysterious disease, which saw some patients undergo ...

American start-up InventWood claims to have "reinvented wood from the inside out" with a patented process that restructures the material's molecules to make it ten times stronger than regular wood.