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About this site
Established in September 2008, this site contains 256,000 words of original content (through October, 2025), not including comments, and 1378 original photographs.
Here you will find plenty of serious woodworking instruction, information on tools, shop setup, and wood, along with musings about the craft. All for you to enjoy for free.
Heartwood is one of the longest running woodworking weblogs on the internet with, conservatively, 6 million visits and 20 million page views (actual human visits, not bots, crawlers, etc.).
I am always delighted to hear from fellow enthusiasts and anyone exploring fine woodworking.
Recent Posts
- Attach this to your plane to cut a square edge
- Sayings posted in the shop
- How to alter a manufactured hand gauge for sharpening plane irons
- Sharpening angle tools made for you
- Wooden angle gauges for hand sharpening
- Holding the angle for hand sharpening
- Five little planes
- The best parts for boxes
- Measure with plastic shim stock
- Dovetail techniques upgraded
- Do you have one of these in your shop?
- Make these bench dogs
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The entire contents of the Heartwood website, except for the theme elements provided by Wordpress, are copyright © Rob Porcaro. Legitimate weblog aggregators are welcome to reproduce excerpts, including the opener photo, with the link. Online forums, legitimate bloggers, and journalists are welcome to reproduce brief excerpts with clear attribution. Copyright infringement is stealing, it is wrong, and it is a crime.Site rankings
Heartwood is ranked as the #7 most popular woodworking blog in the US/english, out of 810 "best woodworking blogs" on the internet, based on the prominent analysis of FeedSpot, and #9 by Feedly.
