Popular Woodworking

Dillon Baker attended Iowa State University and majored in Studio Arts. For the past five years, Dillon has been a Project Designer and Design Editor for Woodsmith Magazine. Recently, he’s been contributing to Popular Woodworking Magazine as the Proj

The cycles of magazine production are odd, especially if you’ve never been on this side of it. As I type this intro letter to our “Spring” issue, it’s colder than a polar bear’s butt outside, with threats of blizzards over the next week. However, her

EDITOR IN CHIEF ■ Logan Wittmer SENIOR DESIGNER ■ Danielle Lowery DIGITAL EDITOR ■ Collin Knoff PROJECTS EDITOR ■ Dillon Baker TECHNOLOGY EDITOR ■ Chris Fitch PHOTOGRAPHERS ■ Jack Coyier COVER PHOTOGRAPHER ■ Jack Coyier SET STYLIST ■ Becky Kralicek C

If you caught the last issue of Popular Woodworking, you might have noticed a photo or two in the cigar humidor article featuring a new crosscut sled. The TSC-200 Crosscut Sled from Infinity Tools is a pretty nifty little sled, and if my initial proj

I wanted an antique beadboard look for my cabinet doors, but stock beadboard didn’t work out with my door size. Here’s what I came up with: I glued up a solid door and cut 3/16″ x 3/16″ dadoes at each glue joint. Then I chamfered the edges with a san

While the woodshop may be where I’m most comfortable, I’ve been fascinated by metalwork for some time. I’m always watching for tips and tricks I can steal for my own use, and as such I’ve become attached to a few methods of working with metal in my o