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From The Bench: Lessons from Shop Class

December 9, 2019

Most of the lessons learned in shop class years ago are still shaping Walter Sivigny's work habits today.
From The Bench: Cabinet Tells a Family’s Story

November 7, 2019

A battered old cabinet made generations ago sparks Amy Cyphers to delve into her family's history.
From The Bench: In Memory of a Friend

October 1, 2019

Former editor Andy Engel writes a tribute to his friend, former Fine Woodworking editor Bill Duckworth.
From The Bench: The Rugged Journey of 600 Mallets

August 1, 2019

How the nonprofit GreenWood helped bring woodturning skills and bicycle-powered lathes into Honduras, sparking the creation of some 600 mallets that will be sold by Lee Valley. It's just one…
From the Bench: Tools from My Father

April 8, 2019

One son’s reflection on cleaning out his father’s woodshop.
From the Bench: The Family Violin

February 25, 2019

My personal story is about endings and beginnings, father, son, and daughters, completing one circle and starting another. My father, Henry Finck, was a professor of anatomy at the University…
George Nakashima–A Tree in the Chair Shop

December 6, 2018

George enjoyed that there was some intellectual activity along with the handwork.
From The Bench: Portrait of a woodworker

September 27, 2018

If you build things in wood, I know who you are
From The Bench: The Story of a Chair

July 26, 2018

This chair deserved to be made of figured wood, an obvious statement that my version was a modern replica
From the Bench: Our house of stories

June 4, 2018

My name is Megan, and I am 11 years old. People love our house and say it is unique, warm, and inviting. It definitely isn’t your run-of-the-mill house. Dad has…