I know a chihuahua when I see one
After a couple of glorious weeks away with friends and family spent below the radar this blog post is about piece of furniture I came across in a sale about …
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Best laid plans and all that
Boarded Tool ChestThis years teaching schedule has been a little crazy at times despite my intention in 2017 to slow things down during 2018 so that I might spend a …
Campaign chest one careful owner
Brass bound pieces like this chest of drawers are either referred to as military or campaign furniture and were the state of the art camping equipment from the mid 18th …
In praise of low tech hardware and peonies
When you don’t have access to screws and hardware let alone the resources to make them, you seek alternatives. That was just one of the features that drew me towards …
Engineering in wood
In May this year at LDE the school invited all the students joining us in September to take part in a series of transition workshops. The classes are an opportunity …
Three degrees of separation
Handtool work is a bitter sweet pill for me as it includes the things I like and dislike the most about the craft; making things blunt and making things sharp. …
Tool chests a plenty
For the last five years I’ve managed to run at least one class for making a tool chest or tool box of various shapes, sizes and spec. This year will …
Preliminaries and obligatory house notes
For those who don’t know, I have a couple of day jobs. The first and the one that occupies most of my time is the Editor of Furniture & Cabinetmaking …
Welcome to the new site
I’m pretty sure I wrote somewhere years ago that the world doesn’t need another blog and certainly not another one about furniture making. But here we are, a few years …