Hank Gilpin

Gilpin’s furniture, always made in solid wood with traditional joinery and a heavy dose of hand tools, is remarkable for its unusual mixture of practicality and playfulness—and for the fluency and pure delight of its design

Get advice from furniture maker Hank Gilpin on wood selection, joinery, finishing, and more when designing a piece for the outdoors.

Four readers will have their designs critiqued by furniture designer and maker Hank Gilpin. Do you want to be one of them? If so, send us pictures of your work.

Take a look at this innovative trestle table joint that does the work of a wedged through tenon but is much easier to make

If he were a piece of wood, he would be, "White oak-wire brushed and without a finish. That's me."