Increasing demand for flawless glass smooth finishes on woods with open pores like oaks, ashes, and mahoganies presents a challenge for finishers. My first experience with this came a few decades ago ...

Various types of varnish and lacquer have been around at least since the time of the ancient Egyptians, so it’s fair to suppose that craftspeople through the ages have mixed the same natural hardening ...

One of the benefits of using wood to build furniture, structures, and other objects is its ability to be fastened together using materials like screws, nails, and glue, and techniques like dovetailing ...

Parquet looks heroic in estate photos, less so in real life. Chairs scrape. Dogs skid. A friend pops by in stilettos and leaves a comet trail by the sofa. We’ve all had that moment when the first ...

Sooner or later, everyone who tinkers with guns is going to try his hand at refinishing a stock. “Hand” is the operative word here, because there’s nothing quite like a hand-rubbed oil finish to bring ...