Leo Goodale, a 44-year-old chef from Great Hale, Lincolnshire, England spent his life savings of $12,603 on fake fingers after he lost his in a power tool accident three years ago while chopping ...

Experience the satisfying transformation of an old, rusted axe, revived using simple, manual restoration methods. Forgotten in a woodpile for years, this antique construction tool was stripped of ...

This is a column I wrote more than a decade ago. A recent conversation with a reader — an old hand at computers going back to the heyday of the mainframe — reminded me of this column.

Hand tools are slower, more physically demanding, and sometimes even harder to use than their powered brethren. Every major tool brand produces them, yet so many DIYers focus most of their ...

They sure don’t make tools like this anymore, you muse as you turn the old jack plane in your hands.Thousands of planing passes have smoothed its wooden sole. Years of grime obscure the wood’s ...