In November of 2020, I sent a direct message on Twitter to a British man named Phil Makepeace. “Hi!” I wrote. “I need a chess coach! Are you the person to talk to?” I knew that Phil was a professional ...

Hunched over the scroll saw setup in his Northland garage, woodworking hobbyist David Pentimone traces the lines of his paper design. All the iconic buildings — from Liberty Memorial to Sky Stations ...

This weeks project features no woodturning, at all, not even a little bit. Its a project I've been working on in my spare time over the last 3 months. The log had been previously dried and when I ...

Imagine a chessboard where the pieces move on their own, gliding across the squares with mechanical precision, as if guided by an invisible hand. It might sound like a scene from a futuristic movie, ...