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Woodcraft Magazine’s fourth book in its Home Woodworker Series features 46 projects to help woodworkers improve their workshop production with jigs, fixtures, and related woodworking helpers. Woodcraft Supply, LLC, is the magazine’s parent company.

Woodcraft Supply has acquired the exclusive North American distributorship for the QuikBENCH™, a product the company believes will meet the needs of both woodworkers and home do-it-yourself enthusiasts.  “What is neat about this product is its versatility and portability,” Vince Grlovich, Woodcraft vice president for sales and marketing, said. “It can fit into a small space in a workshop or garage or be easily transported to another worksite. And depending upon available workspace, it can be expanded in size by connecting additional QuikBENCHES.”

Woodpeckers DelVe Square, now at Woodcraft, Item #132231, was developed over the years by North Carolina woodworker Tom DelVecchio.  He continually improved and added more functionality to his shop-made versions until it became the patent pending design marvel it is today.  Beginning with prototypes from a western Pennsylvania etching machinist, early designs were two part construction in one flat plane.  His initial idea was to have a tool similar to a speed square that was not cumbersome on small part usage. 

Designing and creating cutting boards have never been so easy.  In addition to offering conventional square cutting board designs and products, Woodcraft has added new contoured design templates for you to make special shape boards for any occasion.  This is an idea that came from the heart of our Woodcraft product design guys, George Snyder and Ben Bice.  When they’re not at their desks, they can always be found in the woodshop, coming up with new innovative and fun ideas for you to make in your woodshop.  On top of that, they spend whatever spare time they have teaching and helping all of us at Woodcraft.

Various methods may be used in cutting a blood groove or juice channel in a cutting board.  Here is one way it can be done.  This cutting board was created with some exotic woods about 6 years ago and found in an attic.  At the time there were no handles or blood grooves cut into the board.   It found it’s way to my desk after handles were added with a request to add a juice channel for meat cutting.  It was decided to add the channel on one side only, leaving the opposite side for vegetable cutting use.

Paulownia wood is available from time to time at your local Woodcraft store and online at Woodcraft.com.  Paulownia was named after Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795-1865), is sometimes called Royal Paulownia or Princess Tree, and is known in Japanese as Kiri.  In Japan it is customary to plant a Paulownia tree when a baby girl is born and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she marries.  Paulownia seeds were originally used as packing material for shipments from Japan, and have spread prolifically across the U.S.  blooming annually.

Woodcraft has added three planes to its private label WoodRiver® line that was first offered to customers in 2009.

Comedian, George Carlin said it best, “The whole meaning of life is trying to find a place to put your stuff!”  Do you have a place to put your stuff?  You know, the stuff you need to organize, transport, store, work with, move from job site to job site, or from the basement/garage to project area around the house.  Don’t just throw your stuff in the corner of your garage or woodshop.  Stop grabbing handfuls of tools, dropping them on the way to your project location!  Get your piles of stuff organized into these new TANOS Systainers.

Structurally sound and beautiful in appearance, wood is the ideal raw material. Woodworkers know that moisture content is the single most important factor affecting the quality of their project. To ensure quality, from the mill and dry kiln to the finished project, moisture meters help minimize defects such as shrinkage, cracks, and splits. Years of experience, high-tech tools, controls and premium grade lumber cannot make a difference if moisture content goes unchecked.

 You’ll want to start building or improving your shop, starting with this Rust-Oleum based nonslip, epoxy paint and sealed floor.  Great for resurfacing a concrete floor, this project will allow for easy clean-up leaving a show room finish.  But don’t keep it clean, fill it with sawdust made from your handiwork and enjoy it!  Create a two-wall workshop and outfit it with four outstanding shop projects using the Cut Lists and Convenience-Plus Buying Guides, all in the August/September Issue #54 of Woodcraft Magazine.  We’ve never packed this much information all in one publication, so this issue is a must have!