Christmas gift ideas and great winter reading recommendations for woodworkers.

These winning floors from the National Wood Flooring Association's 2013 Wood Floor of the Year competition fall in wow category.

The latest entrant in the formaldehyde-displacement race in wood panels is a resin system comprised of, among other things, starch of the common potato.

Apparently a recent firewood program on Norwegian TV was more controversial than the producers ever imagined. It seems that a large number of viewers texted in during the show that the wood was being stacked all wrong.

The investigator in this video makes a good point...that once timber is sawn, it is nearly impossible to tell legal from illegal timber.

My will to catalog more than 6,000 wood specimens collected at Penn State since before 1960 led me to visit the largest collection in North America at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI.

Don't you love it when someone starts a sentence with "although I don't know much about the subject..." and then proceeds to give you their opinion anyway? Such is the case of postings to a Youtube video showing the making of a wood lamp shade.

Many modern folk would have a hard time explaining where the natural gas in their home comes from, or how bread is made, or even what the very walls around them are made of. The same goes for lumber.