Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here.

Learning to read chord charts from a lead sheet changed my life - and it can do the same for you. This class is your first ...

That might seem like a silly question. After all, a measuring tape is a simple device with a simple purpose: to measure things.

It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.

Well Made's customizable magnetic frames are an elegant solution to an old, annoying problem with common household art.

We put nine of the best laser tape measures to the test over several weeks. Here's how the top models performed on the job ...