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The Build a Small Cabinet video workshop with Tim Rousseau was recognized yesterday as an Official Honoree by the 13th Annual Webby Awards.

Gina Eide

Small cabinet by Tim Rousseau.

Tim Rousseau

Rousseau's shop in Appleton, Maine,

Tim Rousseau

The Build a Small Cabinet video workshop with Tim Rousseau was recognized yesterday as an Official Honoree by the 13th Annual Webby Awards.

Photo: Gina Eide

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FineWoodworking.com was recognized yesterday as an Official Honoree for the 13th Annual Webby Awards in the How-To and DIY Online Film and Video category for its Build a Small Cabinet video workshop with Tim Rousseau.

Rousseau shows how to build a frame-and-panel cabinet from start-to-finish in the 12-part video series. The project is an excellent vehicle for mastering traditional cabinetry techniques and Rousseau is a skilled instructor. He regularly teaches a course on case construction at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship.

Rousseau studied at the Center in 1998 and then worked there as a shop assistant and later an artist in residence. After time at a cooperative furniture-making studio in Hoboken, N.J., he moved back to Maine to teach and continue building furniture.

Fine Woodworking had never worked with Rousseau. He hates to write, so he’d never pitched articles ideas to the magazine. But, when we were looking for someone to build a cabinet for us, the Center's executive director Peter Korn recommended this laid-back woodworker with a dry wit.

We took a chance that sure paid off. Rousseau has a great presence on camera (apparently he voiced occasional radio commercials in the past) and was uber-prepared! In a panic that everything would be in place for the shoot last September, Rousseau even sent me pictures of all the neatly prepared props and cabinet parts to put my at mind rest.

Cart-o-parts. Super-organized Rousseau sent pictures of all his prepwork before the shoot.

Videographer Gary Junken and I had a fabulous time hanging out with Rousseau and his family the week of the shoot.

Lights. Camera. Action. Cameraman Gary Junken with a little apprentice. 

His wife cooked us fabulous lunches and we got to partake in a bit of country living with pigs on the loose and roosters crowing in the background.

Pig on the loose. Pierre the pig broke out of his pen during our video shoot at the Rousseau homestead.

Thanks also to Tom Olivares for his skillful video editing.

-Gina Eide, FineWoodworking.com

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Comments (5)

DustyFace writes: Although I am late on arrival to this string of comments, Rousseau's video workshop raised the bar for FW online content. Tim is an incredible resource for FW, the video production is top of the line as well. I look forward to video workshops much as I do the arrival of the printed magazine. Last weekend Gary' R.'s v-workshop on sharpening chisels looped continously while I 'resharpened' perfectly sharpened chisels. The excersize took my skills up a notch and afterwards handcut dovetails were more precise. Just kept thinking, "a sharp tool is an easy tool to use".

Looking forward to more video workshops (for those of us who cannot grab a few weeks to visit Rockport).
Posted: 12:28 pm on June 27th

petron writes: Fantastic - best video workshop I have watched - now to start building a couple of them for our bedroom
Posted: 4:10 am on April 19th

GEide writes: Thanks Bog, glad to hear it was useful for the class too! Do you have pictures of the cabinet you made? I'd love to see it, please post them in the gallery: http://finewoodworking.taunton.com/gallery
Posted: 10:56 am on April 17th

Bog writes: I just had the great fortune to have spent three months this winter at CFC with Tim as our teacher. Tim used his cabinet and assorted props from the video as teaching tools for our six week section on cabinet making. As each video in the series was being shown on FineWoodworking we just happend to be working on the same topic at CFC. Our class benefited from Tim's knowledge in the classroom during the day and at night as a reminder we could watch the video on FineWoodworking's web site.


Please produce more videos with Tim. You just touched the surface of his wit and knowledge about woodworking.


Congratulations Tim and FineWoodwooking Well Done!
Posted: 8:07 pm on April 16th

goodguy writes: Hear, hear!
FW and especially Tim Rousseau SHOULD win awards for this type and quality of content! I have watched all the "workshop" episodes. They are all good, but Tim's small cabinet workshop is certainly one of the most comprehensive and informative woodworking videos ever produced. He is relaxed, efficient and thorough as a teacher. His speaking voice and persona are easy-to-take too. There are very few grammatical mistakes, and that is commendable because we can tell he is not reading most of the time. To be able to explain clearly and work at the same time is an unusual talent that makes Tim Rousseau especially adept at video tutoring. It is obvious that Tim is a clear thinker, a great teacher and an inspiring craftsman. The editing is top-notch too. The workshop is fast-paced, but doesn't gloss over important details. This video with Rousseau really puts the "Fine" in Fine Woodworking.

As long as FW can keep producing this quality of content, I will definitely maintain my online subscription! Congratulations! Well deserved!
Posted: 10:17 pm on April 15th

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