Arts & Crafts Buffet
Video: Watch Bob’s table saw techniques for cutting the drawer finger joints. I designed this buffet cabinet a couple years ago for a weekend seminar on Arts & Crafts joinery. After the [...]
Single Oval Library Table
Recreate this classic design and push your skills to the next level. Project #2004 • Skill Level: Advanced • Time: 3 days • Cost: $400 Of all the surviving Charles Limbert designs, there are [...]
Pinwheel Picture Frame
Both of the prints I planned to frame included a windmill as a minor detail. Thinking, “what if?” I grabbed four pieces of scrap wood, made a pinwheel, and thought, “not [...]
Gustav Stickley Morris Chair
Craftsman Style Magazine Cabinet
A useful, beautiful thing. PROJECT #1920 • Skill Level: Advanced • Time: 2 Days • Cost: $200 In 1905, Gustav Stickley published plans for this magazine cabinet in The Craftsman magazine as part [...]
Design Matters: Two Looks
Out of the corner of my eye it caught my attention, a fire-engine red 1966 Chevy Impala Super Sport. Memories flooded back to my first car, a model just like this except mine was green with a [...]
Upholstery for Arm Chairs
So you’ve built your paddle-arm chair, and all that’s left is making the cushion to sit on. I may be persnickety when it comes to armchair upholstery, but I really prefer a certain type of [...]
Ruskin’s Moral Elements of Gothic: A Foundation of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Kudos to all who accepted last week’s challenge to match features of my recently completed dining table commission with the list of John Ruskin’s “moral elements of [...]
Classifying Greene & Greene — Designing with an Aesthetic Utility
Is Greene & Greene actually a part of the Arts & Crafts Movement? Lately, there has been discussion that would bring this into question. It is undeniable that their work was highly [...]
Does the Arts & Crafts Cycle End with the Greenes?
I can’t swear to there being a “cycle” for every Arts & Crafts woodworker. I can only speak to my own experience and add that I have had many nods of agreement when sharing my philosophy. I [...]
Rohlfs & Stickley: A Case of Flowery Inspiration
Darrell Peart raised an interesting questions during my recent web seminar on “Unkown Arts & Crafts” for Popular Woodworking University. He noted the similarities between one of Rohlfs’ [...]
Quartersawn White Oak Grain Matching
I once worked with a guy who maintained that white oak wasn’t suited for furniture and that whiskey barrels are a far better use for this wood. Looking at the pile of wood in the photo you [...]
