Dugout Chair: Fastening the Seat
Every step of making this dugout chair has been a little weird. Fastening its seat in place was no different. After cutting the seat to shape using using the help...
How to Cut a Rock-Solid T-Bridle Joint
One of the first joints I learned to cut during my City & Guilds of London training was the T-bridle, which we used for the leg-to-rail connection on a modern...
Live Edge Class at Snow Farm, Massachusetts – Part 2 Ben’s Table
Ben was one of the six students who took my live-edge Columbus day weekend class at Snow Farm. A newcomer into woodworking, motivated and eager to learn, he asked me...
No-Cost, Low-Cost, Easy-Entry Digital Woodworking — Part One
It always starts with a design Digital woodworking uses digitally controlled tools in your workshop as an addition to hybrid and handtools. Most often this means owning and operating a...
Book Giveaway: Small-scale Woodworking Projects
Thanks for all the great comments! Congratulations to “iampapabear” the winner of this book giveaway. Stay tuned for more exciting book giveaways and if you’re interested in a copy “Simple [...]
Jennie Alexander’s Riving Stump
As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m in greater Baltimore for a chairmaking class with Larry Barrett, a student of Jennie Alexander’s (author of the seminal greenwood book “Make...
Steam-bending Oak in the Kitchen
As Christopher Schwarz posted on his blog, Brendan Gaffney and I are in Maryland for a chair class with Larry Barrett (along with Chris, Narayan Nayar and Sean Thomas); Larry...
Yes, Megan and Brendan are Alive
This week, Popular Woodworking Magazine is short two employees as Megan Fitzpatrick and Brendan Gaffney have joined me on a chair class in Maryland. We’re building a version of the...
Further Insights into Harris Lebus Sideboard
The November 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine features a reproduction of a sideboard made in 1903 by the English furniture manufacturing company Harris Lebus. I built this sideboard based...
Post & Rung & Jennie Alexander
For the next five days I’m in Maryland with four other friends to build a Jennie Alexander chair from Larry Barrett, a student and long-time friend of Alexander. Larry makes...
Focus on Turning Design by Working From Larger Logs
My turning ability is bound by my lathe – it has a maximum diameter capacity of 16”. That means all my accessory tools, such as my hollowing system and 50cc...
Live Edge Class at Snow Farm, Massachusetts – Part 1
On Columbus day weekend I taught a live-edge furniture class at Snow Farm, a reputable New England based craft school located in the picturesque Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts....
