John English is a cabinetmaker, a teacher, and the author of How to Choose and Use Bench Planes and Scrapers, The Woodworker's Guide to Sharpening, and many articles published in Woodshop News and Woodworker’s Business News. He is the former editor of Today’s Woodworker and Woodworker’s Journal. Currently he designs and builds magazine projects for American Woodworker magazine and runs the Black Hills School of Woodworking. He lives in Spearfish, South Dakota.