Scaling Furniture from Photosby Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez
Have you ever wanted to build a piece of furniture after seeing it in a photograph? This article by Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez provides step-by-step instructions to create ...
An Illustrated Guide to Crown Moldingsby Philip C. Lowe
Take a tour through crown-molding history to discover the aesthetic and practical virtues it offers. This visual glossary of elements and representative pieces ...
Anatomy of a Chest of Drawersby Will Neptune
Will Neptune breaks down the design of a chest of drawers showing various In this heavily illustrated article, furniture maker Will Neptune breaks down the design ...
Keep Track of Your Progress with Squiggles and Linesby Philip C. Lowe
If you don’t mark your parts as you progress through a job, you’ll waste time trying to remember what goes where and what you have already done, says author Philip ...
Fast and Accurate Table Joineryby Steve Latta
Steve Latta explains how to design a table so that it can be built with an efficient process that doesn’t sacrifice aesthetics. In this article he offers tips for ...
A Short History of Designby Graham Blackburn
Here’s a condensed visual overview of furniture styles that Fine Woodworking has profiled over its first 25 years, artfully illustrated by Graham Blackburn. This ...
Compound-Angle Joineryby Will Neptune
Will Neptune, while working as an instructor at North Bennet Street School, shares his tricks for cutting the compound angle mortise and tenon joinery, using Federal ...
Graduated Drawersby Christian Becksvoort
This article offers formulas for determining suitable dimensions for graduated drawers, and is an essential aid to help design case pieces and built-ins of varies ...
Designing Table Legsby Graham Blackburn
Legs are often defining features of a table, writes Graham Blackburn, who explains in this article how to select the right legs for your table from the bewildering ...
Mock-ups Quicken the Design Processby Keith Allen
Most furniture designs start with a two-dimensional drawing, but drawings can fail to capture the complexities of a three-dimensional object and they’re worthless ...
Three Ways to Make Cabinet Doorsby Steve Latta
Three types of doors will solve most needs: doors for fine furniture, doors with glass panels, and low-budget quickie doors. Steve Latta shows how to make all of ...
A Game Plan for Big Cabinet Jobsby John W. West
John W. West explains starts big jobs (like putting in a library) by making painstaking measurements on story poles, choosing materials, and tuning up his equipment. ...
Designing the Wedged Mortise and Tenonby Carl Swensson
When a table wobbles or a chair squeaks, it’s usually just bad joinery design, says Carl Swensson. Good design buys time against use and abuse that all furniture ...
Making Big Cabinets Manageableby Niall Barrett
Niall Barrett came up with a way to build cabinets out of smaller parts, yet not have the end result look like a jigsaw puzzle. Small components are light and easy ...
Joinery for Light, Sturdy Coffee Tableby Lindsay Suter
Lindsay Suter’s coffee table has exposed joinery: through-tenons, wedged with butterfly keys, join the legs to the top. Narrow stretchers replace more traditional ...
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