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We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Anika Gandhi, a DIYer and woodworker from California.  How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? I got [...]

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Darryl Dunn, a furniture maker from Texas who specializes in reclaimed lumber. How did you get started woodworking? Who were [...]

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Lauren Matthews, a custom woodworker from Maryland.  How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? I [...]

As part of our Woodworking in America initiative, we’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Alma Villalobos, a woodworker and artist from Illinois.  How did [...]

Christmas, 1956. I was a little fella, and my seeing the Tonka Hi-Way series display in the W.T. Grant store months earlier had captured my entire attention. In my letter to Santa, I asked for [...]

Two days on the set of ‘The New Yankee Workshop’ reveal surprising truths about the way Norm Abram works. Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the August 2005 issue of Popular [...]

Trading Wall Street for molding planes. Editor’s note: This interview originally appeared in the October/November 2012 issue of American Woodworker Matt Bickford’s story is quite unusual [...]

Can America’s most recognizable woodworking personality actually retire? Editor’s note: This interview originally appeared in the November 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Norm Abram first [...]

Enthusiasm and people skills are the keys to Ejler Hjorth-Westh’s success. On California’s Mendocino coast, you really never know who you are talking to by looking. Institutional “costume” [...]

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April/May 2013 issue of American Woodworker When I came to America eight years ago, I was able to get a work permit and a job at LA [...]

My shop is located in a spare bedroom. As a luthier, I don’t need a lot of space—just enough to allow working on a double bass. What I do need, though, is storage for lots of small parts, [...]

Spring 2020 Edition One of the best places to be inspired as a woodworker is on Instagram. Here’s the woodworkers and makers our editors are following this spring. @barbieworkshop – Barbie Of All [...]