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Rope handle spices up a tea box

Rope handle spices up a tea box

MPekovich, member | May 24th, 20117 comments

Just a simple dovetailed box with a rope to keep it closed.

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Design journal: Let the function drive the design

Design journal: Let the function drive the design

MPekovich, member | May 9th, 20117 comments

A small sewing table posed some unique challenges that ultimately led to a fun design.

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Patient takes the Design Doctors advice

Patient takes the Design Doctor's advice

MKenney, member | April 8th, 20116 comments

Brian Havens was one of three lucky readers to have Hank Gilpin critique a piece of furniture that he made. Havens to the advice to heart and made a second cabinet. Check out the improvements.

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Catching up with Toshio Odate

Catching up with Toshio Odate

Vlad_S, member | April 6th, 20117 comments

Considered to be the original ambassador of Japanese woodworking tools to the West, the master woodworker and sculptor shares tea, tool advice, and thoughts on the social responsibility of woodworkers.

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Baby planes

Baby planes

Vlad_S, member | January 28th, 20115 comments

A look at an instrument maker's standby, and some ideas for using them in furniture making

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Feels good to be back at Colonial Williamsburgs hand tool conference

Feels good to be back at Colonial Williamsburg's hand tool conference

AsaC, member | January 12th, 2011

FWW co-sponsors a wonderful event,"Working Wood in the 18th Century," every year at Colonial Williamsburg. The presenters started bending and cutting wood right away this year.

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Is Danish Modern the furniture style of our time?

Is Danish Modern the furniture style of our time?

AsaC, member | December 23rd, 200959 comments

While Maloof and Krenov certainly created the template for the modern studio furnituremaker, I think they they also shared an furniture style: an offshoot of Danish Modern. And recent makers have taken up that mantle.

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Boxmakers Who Think Outside the Box

Boxmakers Who Think Outside the Box

Tom, member | August 25th, 20091 comment

Check out boxes from around the globe at the Messler Gallery in Rockport, Maine

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Book Review: Creating a Fine Art Entry Table

Book Review: "Creating a Fine Art Entry Table"

epirnik, member | August 6th, 20093 comments

For straightforward advice on how to build an inspiring entry table, Robert Ortiz comes to the rescue.

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Reinventing Nakashimas Straight Chair

Reinventing Nakashima's Straight Chair

epirnik, member | June 29th, 2009

Philadelphia University mounts exhibit on a master's original.

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Japanese paper is a eureka moment

Japanese paper is a eureka moment

AsaC, member | January 3rd, 200913 comments

Japanese paper is beautiful and dirt-simple to apply

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