Ebony

Ben’s piece was inspired in part by televisions from the 1950s that looked like pillowed cubes raised several inches off the ground on tapered, turned legs that splayed out. Rather…

Twenty years ago, the Peabody Essex Museum exhibited the work of John and Thomas Seymour, father-and-son English émigré cabinetmakers who “played a significant role in shaping New England’s artistic heritage…

This project started as a series of veneer exercises from Craig Thibodeau’s book, The Craft of Veneering. Bill started with the parquetry chessboard top, then challenged himself with veneering coves…

This table was created to enhance the entryway of Lloyd’s home. He used several design elements from previous pieces he’d built, including viola pegs as pulls, arched aprons, and ebony…

While collecting antique planes over a number of years, Chris realized that many of the planes shown in books, (such as Salaman’s Dictionary of Woodworking Tools), were often unavailable or…

Val built this Krenov-style cabinet on stand for his wife. The ebony and koa he used had been in his family for decades. The whole building process, with its many…

This piece, a gift for his daughter, is the first box Spencer made. He was inspired by boxes he’d seen on the web, in particular those with secret compartments or…

Matthew’s inspirations for this cabinet came from his time studying boat building. The parquetry pattern in the door panels recalls a nautical flag, and the sides, with their curved top…

This piece was based on Garrett Hack’s huntboard from FWW #187, with a few changes. “I modified the design slightly to give it more of a Shaker look. The pulls…

Matthew‘s table is an almost exact replica of one that his instructor made at NBSS, “except the one change I made, which was to add a basic acanthus leaf carving…