Creativity Step by Step: Furniture Design
By Norman Reid Design has always been one of my biggest challenges in woodworking. To be frank, I didn’t know how to create my own designs. I’m always amazed by the innovative designs of other [...]
Popular Woodworking in America: An Interview with George R. Walker
After decades working in corporate America, George R. Walker’s woodworking took a huge detour while doing research for an article on pre-industrial design. Since that time, George has [...]
Live Edge Class at Peters Valley Part 1: Nicky’s Bench
In early July I had the pleasure of returning to Peters Valley School of Craft in New Jersey to teach a class on live edge furniture. Live edge furniture, also known as natural edge furniture [...]
Off the Grid: Variations on a Mid-Century Modern Bookcase
There’s something very graphical about the design of the Mid-Century Modern Bookcase I built for the October 2015 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. Viewed head on, the arrangement of [...]
The Telephone Game – Woodworking Version
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You know what the Telephone Game is, right? One person starts by whispering a phrase into the [...]
One-Stop Shop for Furniture Design
All woodworkers know that improving their bench skills and learning new workshop techniques are necessary parts of becoming a better woodworker. Just as important but often overlooked, however, [...]
ShopWood: Greene & Greene techniques to learn and use
If you're a fan of Greene & Greene or heard some, and are intrigued, this book is a great place to enjoy an exenstive view of this approach to woodworking.
Should Furniture Be Judged?
Recently I had the privilege of serving as one of the judges for an upcoming furniture exhibition of the Cumberland Furniture Guild, a group of mostly Tennessee furniture makers (full disclosure: [...]
Are Prototypes Worth the Work?
In cleaning up the shop this past weekend, I came across the prototype for the Krenovian wall cabinet I built for the April issue and was reminded of how helpful it was in working out and [...]
A Better Way to Learn SketchUp
Learning a new skill is a lot easier if you think of it as a hobby. Though I wasn’t one of the earliest adapters, I started using SketchUp, a drafting program you can download for free, a [...]
The Purrfect Bookshelves
Those of you who’ve been reading our Editors’ Blog for more than a week or so know that I like cats (3.75 of ’em in my house). And books (thousands). So, when a Facebook friend [...]