Updates on a woodworker professional's recommendations for filling stockings and home wood shops in the 2014 Christmas holiday season.

White oak and osage orange playground structure with climbing wall designed for preschoolers at Immanuel Lutheran Day School in St. Louis

At the end of May, my daughter and pickiest customer Mira, turned eight and planned to have a mermaid swimming party at Grandma’s house.

To get things started, it helps to first look at truly worm-eaten wood. Here are some of my tricks for achieving realistic results.

I was working in the shop last week doing some adze work on a couple of hollow beams and remembered back to my frustrating first days using an adze. I recalled a couple of tips that I wanted to share in this latest Quick Tip video:

Woodworker comments in July 2014 touch on stairbuilding, increase in work with alder, the Tiny House Movement and much more.

WunderWood owner Scott Wunder is on his way to achieving meme status at WoodworkingNetwork. One of the custom woodshop owner's tell-it-like-it-is style and immensely practical advisories on finishing, planing, sawmilling and joinery were most viewed this week.