It's official. Rockler has named five special woodworkers as the best in their categories. Fighting ...

Chip carving, an art that used to be virtually non-existent in this country, was propelled to broader popularity partially because of Wayne Barton's passion for this craft. Read more ...

Most people will throw it all away for a shot at the big time to become an actor in New York. John R...

It's pretty rare these days to see ornately carved, handmade furniture. Most of the work you see fro...

John Landis calls himself a cabinetmaker, but he means it in the old sense of the word when cabinetm...

Okay, Norm may have his laser-guided saw, but Ken Trott uses lasers for serious woodworking. While t...

Having mastered a wide array of woodworking styles at the ripe age of 36, Aaron Radelow is never shies away from a project (no matter how eclectic or practical!) Read more ...

The key to good veneering, says Wayne Hoffman, is a good substrate. That's the foundation for the lo...

Most teachers hope their students will go on to succeed in the field and make them proud. Alan Lazar...

Alexander Eppler, the woodworker, inventor, and musician, discusses his life's work.  Read more ...

The recipient of the 2008 Cartouche Award from the Society of American Period Furnituremakers was Alfred Sharp. That statement alone speaks volumes to those who know how prestigious that award is, and the quality of work for which it is awarded. Most consider it the highest honor a furniture maker can get. What’s more interesting, though, at least in my mind, is uncovering the layers of experience that get someone to that elevated state. To that end, I had a nice long chat with Alf Sharp, and it was as d...

Single, twice divorced, and fifty-six, Alice Porembski is about the happiest and most contented furniture maker/designer I've interviewed, and also one of the best.

We don't want you to listen to Ross Peterson. He's an accomplished furniture maker and furniture des...

Darrell Peart, a quick thinker who jumped onto the internet bandwagon earlier than the rest of us, speaks of his woodworking and business career. Read more ...

Many years ago, I found myself with some friends in an Amish-owned store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, looking at seed corn. The corn was coated in brightly colored purple powder, and I said

Joel Eckhaus discusses entertainingly strange anecdotes about his life as a musician and a woodworker with Michael Dresdner. Read more ...

"I have a picture of me in a little shop apron when I was about five years old," Andy Chidwick told me when I asked just how far back his woodworking experience actually went. "I still have the apron, which was sewn by my mom. My father was not a woodworker, but he was the do-it-yourself sort, so I grew up using tools and helping him do things, and even worked in construction as a teen.

We should probably expect that any woodworker out of California will do things a bit differently, wi...

Pick up one of Austin Clark's exquisite mandolins, turn it over in your hands and play a few notes, and you may be convinced that this is the product of a man who was destined from birth to build these fine musical instruments. The truth, though, is entirely different.

Cecil Ross combines craft and art to create his lovely woodworking pieces. Read more ...

This modest woodworker started in the craft for practicality's sake when her kids needed small (but costly) furniture items, and it grew into a highly enjoyable, lifelong pursuit. Read more ...

For Barry Semegran , it all started with bees; at least, after college. "I went to [the University of California at] San Diego to study science, but the college demanded that I take humanities as well. That opened things up for me, and I wound up studying ancient Greek philosophy. I transferred to UC Santa Barbara for their philosophy department, and did graduate work at Emory University in Atlanta. After several years, I left graduate school.

Tony Leonard isn't big on plans ? well at least not other people's plans. When he decided to build a...

Over the years, Beth Ireland has made quite a name for herself in the field of woodworking as a cabinetmaker, furniture maker, architectural turner, spiral stair maven, lathe artist and woodworking instructor and lecturer. How does she do it all?

I have to admit that it is rare to hear a woodworker credit his time in a butcher shop for his precision and attention to detail in the woodshop, but that's exactly what Bob Gasperetti did when I asked him about his early influences.

Conservative contemporary is about the only term Bobby Michelson will accept to describe his unique ...

Brooke Coe’s son, aged about three at the time, helped come up with the name for Huh? Designs, her furniture and interior design company. “I was working on one of my bug tables, and I had it upside down on the bench with its legs up in the air, and I was sanding it. My son came into the garage and was like, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Oh, I’m just working on my furniture.’ He was like ‘huh’?”

Bryan Schoening is indeed involved in a strange trade - his woodworking is impressive enough to be desired after death! Read more ...

When Jeffrey Greene was just starting out as a woodworker, he was very fortunate to have two experie...

To call Caprice Glaser a woodworker might be accurate, but it's a little like calling Hemingway a ty...

When she first began woodworking in earnest, Carole Rothman used skills honed on the sewing machine to control the band saw -- but it's her scroll saw work that she hopes creates a new genre in woodworking.

From attending George School as a student to coming back as a professor, Carter Sio has led a life full of learning, teaching, and woodworking.  Read more ...

"For me, carving loses the world," explained Cathy Krumrei when describing her woodworking hobby niche. "When I start to carve, I don't think of anything around me except the wood."

There's a problem with the chairs that Robert Erickson makes: once you sit down in one, you don't ev...

Lucky enough to combine his two loves into one profession, this writer and woodworker is throughly enjoying both crafts. Read more ...

I must admit that what first piqued my interest was Christine Coffman's disarmingly simple description of her wood carving career. "I've been carving for 44 years, since I was 12," she summed up in one short line.

This expert turner takes heavy, unsightly chunks of ancient burl and manages to create exquisitely turned woodworking masterpieces. 

One of the first things you'll notice when you look at Ray Bock's work is the sort of fluid motion o...

Most woodworkers start small, perhaps building a jewelry box, and in a sense Connie Slagle started that way, too. She built one for her mother, with the help of a neighbor, when she was six years old. After that, woodworking pretty much disappeared from h

A dedicated craftsman, Stephen Rosasco conserves beautfiul woodwork that may have otherwise disappeared with the past. Read more ...

Corwin Butterworth has a distinctive name: the memorable sort that would fit an artist, a musician, or even a furniture maker. Perhaps that helps explain what led this renaissance man of the art world to divide his time with all three of those artistic pursuits.

One of the masters of this fascinating craft speaks lovingly of his life as a guitarmaker. Read more ...

If you asked Daniel Mack whether he makes furniture, architectural detail, or sculpture ... his answ...

Some peop

You don't have to know David Fobes has a twin brother to enjoy his work. But it adds another level o...

People go into woodworking for all sorts of reasons. There are practical DIYers building things they can't afford to buy, hobby woodworkers wanting to fill time, and even people who are continuing a family legacy. Few people, though, choose their life's career, as Pacific Northwest woodworker David Gray did, based on something sold in the want ads.

There are plenty of woodworkers creating furniture that bears little resemblance to the trees that spawned the raw material, but David Stine is different. He seems merely to coax trees into usable objects that clearly reflect their heritage. Starting from the tree itself, he crafts his pieces in a way that not only preserves the look of their origins, but preserves the forest’s future as well.

I've got a lot of wooden spoons in my kitchen, and I can assure you not one of them bears the slightest resemblance to what David Western carves. His are spoons in name only. A far more accurate description would be "intricate portable carved wooden art,•bCrLf but for Dave, they are even more than that. For him, they encompass history, tradition, romance, and perhaps most important of all, Welsh pride.

This husband and wife team have conquered the world of small crafts with their creative and practical designs. Read more ...

Denise DeRose has been a woodturner for a while -- ever since she inherited her father’s shop, along with his love for wood – but she’s only been following her current focus in turning for about a year. While working her booth at a craft show, she saw a woman carrying a small bandsawn box, about the size of a paperback book, as a handbag. “A light went off in my brain: why couldn’t it be a vessel? Woodturners make vessels. I started thinking about it, and I got consumed by it.”

He’s built furniture for the Chief Executive Office of the White House, done work for the World Bank, been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, designed and patented a tape measure holder called “The Gripper” and, not surprisingly,

Andy Peklo makes us nervous. He builds furniture, and it's really nice furniture. But he doesn't rea...

In the world of folk music, the guitar, fiddle and banjo are quick to grab center stage. However, if you are willing to wander the fringes of the genre, you may be lucky enough to stumble upon the placidly soothing song of the mountain dulcimer, a humble instrument with a uniquely American pedigree. One of the country's foremost experts on both playing and building these unpretentious instruments is a modest, gentle man named Doug Berch.

A wood-lover since childhood, Ellis Hein has been raising eyebrows in the turning community with his new, unique techniques. Read more ...

Well-known to many woodworkers, this issue of Today's Woodworker brings you the story of Ellis Walentine. Read more ...

Known especially for his dovetail expertise, Frank Klausz has acheived the status of a master woodworker in the U.S., and certainly not because he agreed with the methods in place. Read more ...

By the time you start reading these words you will have already noticed

A lover of the classic designs that were a common feature in colonial homes, Gerry Mayberry spent his life as a woodworker perfecting these styles. Read more ...

This Ohio-born woodworker bring worldy influences and a true love for the craft to the making of his sleek and creative pieces. Read more ...

Michael Dresdner interviews this charitable turner, and discovers the interesting story behing the magnificent woodworker. Read more ...

Glen Guarino has loved woodworking since he was a boy - and, as a retired high school shop teacher, passed along that love to other boys and girls. Now devoting himself full-time to making studio furniture, Glen is proud that he was able to pass along his New Jersey high school shop program to someone he got started in woodworking.

Stephen Shepherd thinks modern furniture is okay, he's just glad somebody else has to do it. Ninetee...

There's marquetry, which consists of pictures made of inlaid wood and veneers. Then there is trompe l'oeil, which adds the appearance of three dimensions to inlay in order to fool the eye. Greg Novosad not only does compelling inlay and trompe l'oeil; he goes a step further by weaving a storyline into what, for most, is simply a beautiful static picture.

Like many others, Hector Patrucco "retired and became a woodworker." In his case, that meant retiring to Brazil, his wife's country of origin, from a career as an architect designing medical facilities.

It doesn't take long to figure out that when Bob Ingram is talking about woodworking, he's really ta...

Ian Kirby, a truly seasoned modern master of the craft, is a revered and influential teacher, writer, designer and woodworker. Read more ...

Ima B. Leever attributes her approach to wood to the home of her childhood: "All the walls were covered in knotty pine. Bunch of 'eyes' staring at me. It creeped me out."

When the editor of Woodworkers Journal wandered by and saw a picture of Janice Smith's chair, he sai...

From acting to woodworking, Jake Cress has always been an entertainer. Read more ...

The first thing that caught my eye at James Sagui’s website is a photo of a simple round table covered completely with a white cloth that dr

This ambitious young woodworker has a unique and fairly stunning approach to the craft. Read more ...

Netsuke is a form of carving developed centuries ago in China and Japan. Pronounced, "netskay", it evolved from simple wood or stone toggles -- used to suspend a pouch on a cord when tucked under a belt -- into elaborately detailed, very small works of art and craftsmanship. If you've never seen it, the elegant work of master carver Janel Jacobson is a good place to start.

"When I was in high school in Massachusetts, girls could not take shop," Janet Collins told me. "Besides, that's where all the bad kids were put; the boys who were troublemakers were put in shop."

This woodworking devotes his time to a unique craft - building beautiful wooden clocks. Read more ...

Many people are said to "make" things, but according to my Dad's old copy of Black's Law Dictionary ...

Blending creative artistry and effective furniture making skills, Jefferson Shallenberger's woodwork ranges from practical to awe-inspiring.  Read more ....

As a working single mother with a teenaged son, Jennifer Shirley already has a lot to juggle. As everyone knows, juggling takes balance and, after all, what is more balanced than a lathe?

When an interesting tree goes down in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, folks have come to expect Jill Bir...

"I've been working wood since I was old enough to wield a hammer," Jim Anderson told me when I asked him how he got involved in making his unusual looking bentwood boxes. "My father worked in housing, so I always had access to scrap wood from housing sites.

By any set of standards, Jim Tolpin is a maven of the woodworking world. Throughout a 40year career, he has built everything from cabinets and furniture to elaborate gypsy wagons, and has written hundreds of articles and over a dozen books on subjects ranging from making money in the field of woodworking, to books about cottages and comfortable homes. His latest venture is a woodworking school nestled in the idyllic surroundings of Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, Washington. I sat down to talk ...

You never know about second careers ?sometimes they fizzle and sometimes they sizzle. Joe Petrovich'...

Johanna Johanson's beautiful work shows that she takes her own advice - to strive for excellence - to heart.

Though the years have taken him from Ireland all the way to Wyoming, John English has always kept a place for woodworking in his life.  Read more ...

Though he had always had a fondness for working with wood, John Louchheim initially fell into woodworking to escape a future in a desk job - and it became his creative passion. Read more ...

"I always liked tools," John Maki admitted to me. "As much as working with them, I always liked collecting them. I suppose that is because growing up, my father's tool collection was pitiful. Once I started doing remodeling work, it seemed there was always a tool I needed, and before long I built up a pretty good shop." That's all well and good, but as you can see from the photos, the tools John now has in his collection, all of which he made, are quite Lilliputian. How does one get from collecting func...

Sometimes, the path to becoming a woodworker can  take some surprising turns. John Sterling started out working in his family’s beer distributorship, and ended up working in a woodworking business that has also become a family endeavor. While he may have followed that path anyway, a tragedy along the way helped him solidify his values, and led him to do a lot more for others than simply offer them finely made furniture.

Sometimes you hear the strange

(Top) a Japanese Torii Gate and (bottom) Bayley's Torii Table. It might seem a bit strange that a g...

This talented woodworker has a chosen a unique - but very functional - way to enjoy his craft. Read more ...

Judy Caldwell is the quintessential born artist. These days, she just happens to express her art in woodcarving, but long before she picked up chisels, she showed her true colors in two dimensions.

Judy Threet's website, Threet Guitars, proudly boasts "From my hands to yours," and truer words were never written. Judy is the quintessential Neanderthal woodworker, one who eschews most tooling for the joys of crafting one-of-a-kind guitars by hand.

As with most woodworkers, Kate Taylor's website nicely displays her work, a delightful collection of beautifully made boxes, furniture and turnings. But a second website, called Wooden Boxes, is a departure from the norm. It, too, showcases a wealth of excellent work, from turned urns for pet remains to more intricate jewelry boxes, but it does not stop there.

While Katie Hudnall doesn’t use a lot of jigs in her own woodworking – just a few that she turns to time and again – “I admire people who do work that way, and I’m fascinated by them.”

After retiring from a full career as a state trooper, you'd think Kay Pomroy would have already given enough of her life to protecting and helping others. Instead, she now finds herself giving both her time and money to help others, this time through woodworking via an effort called "The Reaching Down Project."

For the past quarter century, Ken Richards has been designing and making world-class furniture in the Pacific Northwest. While there are some clear nods to modernity in his work, much of it takes its influence from the classic pieces of the past. In a sense, he does too, favoring paper drafting over computers and leaning heavily on hand tools for many operations.

Kim Kelzer's woodworking pieces, everything from kitschy lamps to full kitchens, are anything but mundane and present furniture in a seriously lighthearted manner.

When he turned 35, Konstantinos Pilarinos recognized that though he was a talented woodcarver, he wa...

This artistic craftsman is interested in all kinds of woodworking, and happens to excel in them all, as well. Read more ...

Although she grew up "in a very crafty family", it wasn't until she was grown up and trying to furnish an apartment that Laurie McKichan took up woodworking.

For her very first venture in woodworking, Layne Halliday built an entire house, complete with exotic wood parquet floors and filled with furniture in a variety of styles. Not only that; she did it all without stepping outside her home.

A lot of woodworkers are self-taught, and consequently most of us have learned a lot about the craft...

A Russian couple first stunned the International Woodcarvers Congress with incredible landscape relief carvings in 1999, and they've been well-known in the U.S. ever since.  Read more ...

This landscape artist goes from acre-wide projects to ... non-existent? Read more ...

For some of us, a beautiful piece of wood furniture is like a rare and wondrous gem. But for Peter Z...

Most people who choose woodworking as a hobby do so at least in part because of the contrast between it and their day jobs. Dennis Zongker, one of the partners of Zongkers Custom Woodworking, takes a slightly different approach.

When Philippe Guillerm sailed into Florida, he assumed it would just be another temporary home for h...

Jerry Burke and Mark Benson share a lot more than their business interests: Mark is also Jerry's son...

Luis Costa's mind-boggling two-dimensional woodworking masterpieces are unique, impressive, and not to be missed.  Read more ...

The master cabinetmaker of Colonial Williamsburg shares his story, explaining what lead him into a life of woodworking in "colonial" America. Read more ...

Right now, the first piece of woodworking you find in the gallery on Malcolm Tibbetts's website is called "Smile on Your Brother."  It's composed of two 13" diameter donut shapes, each constructed from 50 ribbon rings. Each of those rings, in turn, is made from stave-constructed cylinders that have been turned, cut apart and reassembled in the proper dimensions for the piece: an example of Malcolm's specialty, segmented woodturning.

A woodworker solely because of a love for the craft, Mark Koons had endured the slow, painstaking process involved in becoming a master woodworker.  Read more ...

"I still remember the day my dad brought home a Shopsmith,•bCrLf mused Mark Laub, a Minnesota woodworker who designs and builds decidedly striking high-end furniture. "I was about nine. We built all sorts of stuff that I thought was cool, and I was hooked. No matter what else I did, I always had a basement shop and always kept woodworking as a hobby.•bCrLf

Martha Roberts, or Marty to her friends, is definitely a latecomer to woodworking. In fact, she sees herself as just starting out, but in spite of that, she's managed to develop her own niche, and parlayed it into a working business.

“As far as comfort level goes, chairs are the hardest thing to make,” insists Matthias Pliessnig. This may be true for him, but not everyone makes seating that looks like an undulating tide, frozen in time, whose surface is rendered in strips of bent wood. Matthias describes one particular piece of seating saying “it looks like two intersecting waves.

Combining a love of woodworking and baseball, this craftsman has his dream job.  Read more ...

These Old World woodworking brothers kept their passion for woodworking alive from Bavaria to the Bay Area. Read more ...

At the risk of starting a gender war, we recently discovered that what we men know about jewelry box...

An artist who took to woodworking simply to save a little money, Meredith Sattler's wood creations are so stunning that it's hard to believe they are merely made with plywood. Read more ...

Michael Bowen used to work in construction and, in a way, he still does. The houses he makes now are for families with names like "wren", "finch" & "bluebird." 

Though carving tiki gods in grade school led him to the beer can plant, Michael Brolly's lifelong interest in wood artistry has paid off. Read more ...

Michael Cullen has been doing some woodworking since he was a kid, building terrariums in his dad’s friend’s shop and taking shop classes in high school.

It’s common knowledge that a good percentage of full-time furniture makers don’t like doing chairs. That’s one reason why Michael Doerr saw chair making as the perfect niche for himself. A former boat builder, Michael lives and works on

Michael Dresdner's story is an interesting one - this woodworker has been a roaming traveler in India, a luthier's apprentice, a finishing expert, a writer, and much more.  Read more ...

Michael Gaule has been through a lot in his life – and so has his woodworking. The former French Quarter chef lost a home, damaged a shop and missed out on some great downed wood after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans – and this was after becoming disabled and choosing woodworking as a second career.

When word came of the disastrous fire at the Gurian Guitar plant, a lot of fellow guitar makers felt something more than mere sympathy. After all, Michael Gurian was an icon in the rebirth of the fledgling handmade guitar field. But like the legendary phoenix, he, too, was destined to rise from the ashes.

It would please Michael Ireland, if your first reaction -- upon seeing one of his pieces -- was some...

Choosing intriguing, often foreboding themes for his fantastic woodwork, Michael K. Stevens is one woodworker not to be missed.  Read more ...

Working mostly with burls harvested around her Vermont home, Michelle Holzapfel is recognized for he...

This woodworker has always kept his options open - making not only humidors, but guitar parts and tape measures as well - and it has served him well. Read more ...

It all started at a lumberyard. Mike Lynch found a piece of cherry with beautiful figuring. He bough...

An innovative woodworker discusses his creative projects, and his lifelong love affair with wood.  Read more ...

This seasoned woodworking teacher took the plunge - he opened his own institution. Read more ...

About a year ago, Nancy Romalov gave up the college teaching jobs to focus exclusively on woodworking.

Nathan Hunter certainly got an early introduction to woodworking, and eventually became a designer and builder of fine furniture. However, that does not mean there was a straight path from his first exposure to his current love. Music and film both got in their licks before woodworking managed to lure him back.

Nathan Stenley and some "really big" cabriolet legs.When Nathan Stanley came back to Minneapolis in ...

That strange description is what really caught our attention when we were rifling through the variou...

This lengendary woodcarver has led a full, interesting life - of course, she was always centered around her passion for woodworking. Read more ...

We know you woodworkers may not be completely up to speed on the latest in interior décor, so here's...

The matching credenza Michael made from the largest piece of exotic wood he ever found. When Michae...

An enthusiastic bunch of hobbyist woodworkers set out to improve their community through their favorite pastime.  Read more ...

A story of the partnership that is woodworkers Larry and Nancy Buechley's life. Read more ...

Pat Morrow had been a photographer for the Kansas City Star Sunday Magazine, a painting major in college, and a producer/director in Chicago before the idea occurred to her to become a woodworker.

The invitation led my wife and me to an unassuming wood building set well back on a sleepy residential street. Stepping inside, we found ourselves in a grand room with a surprisingly high arched ceiling. A railed catwalk clung to the walls halfway up their 40-foot height. Filling the room, floor to ceiling and almost wall to wall, was a massive and thoroughly breathtaking pipe organ, replete with shiny metal pipes, ornate wood carved screens and figurines, and lush figured wood throughout.

Paul Jensen has been around wood all his life: with a dad who was a carpenter and cabinetmaker, "Wood was my toy," he said. "If I wanted to play blocks or something, I'd pick up wood and make something – maybe a little toy boat or put wheels on it and make a little toy truck."

Paul Schürch's woodworking career has been an eclectic one, incorporating stints of piano and organ building, housing construction and boat building, but for the past several years, he's found his passion in the old art of marquetry.

This "self-taught" woodworker has made quite the leap - he's gone from experimenting in his father's shop to being one of the most well-known, in demand woodworkers in the Twin Cities.  Read more ...

This is a truly accomplished hobbyist woodworker - he's moved up from following around his DIY uncles as a boy to building a Mission-style chair after watching the New Yankee Workshop.  Read more ...

It's very easy for most of us to get distracted away from our true passion ? woodworking ? but Jonah...

As a young girl, Reese Entement often felt bitter about what she perceived as a grossly unfair double standard, and in large part, that feeling is responsible for the path she eventually followed.

Woodworking and bicycle-building may seem like an unlikely pairing these days, but Ken Wheeler and his staff of four at Renovo Bicycles is doing just that. His Portland, Oregon-based business has been building wooden bike frames since 2008.

His niche is recreating the styles of the past. Contributing editor Mike McGlynn, a woodworker from ...

One board at a time, one child at a time, on a scenic bluff overlooking the Upper Mississippi River,...

"I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin," Rich Soborowicz recounted when I asked him how he got into woodworking. "On a farm, you're always fixing things and doing things with your hands. I remember watching my dad take green wood and bend it into a rake, and [I] found it amazing."

Many woodworkers contemplate making the transition from dedicated amateur to professional. But the r...

After a rough start, Rob Millard has become on of today's most respected woodworkers.  Read more ...

Robert Brou's first foray into woodworking came when he was hired to restore and reproduce antiques for a New Orleans gallery in the late 1990s.  All of the aspects of woodworking he learned while building chairs, dining tables and Chinese Chippendale curio cabinets for Manheim Gallery, Robert said, come  in handy today - especially the fact that "there were very little square corners; it was all delicate, curved."

Applying his love of woodworking and sculpting to a uinque craft, this one-time actor carves his wood into ventriloquist dummies.  Read more ...

The rocking horse is such a standard part of our culture you expect to see one in every picture of a...

Roseanne Somerson is known for her stunningly creative designs as well as the practical aspect of her woodworking. Read more ...

Michael Dresdner digs deep into Roy Underhill's lifelong passion for woodworking. Read more ...

Sam Maloof doesn't let age stop him - at 87, he's working just as hard (and having just as much fun!) as he did in his younger days as an amateur furniture maker. Read more ...

Though he hated shop class in high school, Sandor Nagyszalanczy has become one of the most trusted woodworking writers in the country. Read more ...

“My mom, who was an architect, taught me to use a hammer when I was pretty you

Like most woodworkers, Shorty Stubbs got her start through a family member’s encouragement. Her path to this hobby, however, started even earlier than most – back in the days of potty training. No singing Elmos for her back in the day, not eve

With a love for making things by hand, Simon Watts' path in life has led him to become a woodworker, boatbuilder, teacher, and writer. Read more ...

Two Georgian toymakers focus on creating simply delightful wooden playthings for children. Read more ...

Most of us have, at one time or another, designed ourselves into a corner with a project. You add an...

A lifelong learner, John Hampton fits more woodworking into a day than most people do in a month. Read more ...

Most of us have our jobs and then we have our workshops. Every once in awhile a woodworker will quit...

Ask most woodworkers to name the one thing they dislike about furniture making, and there is a good chance they will answer “finishing.” It seems to be the bane of woodworkers, and even those who are good at it admit they see it as the least p

Steff Rocknak is as complex as the figures she carves out of wood. She's a visiting philosophy professor at Connecticut College in New London, CT (her specialties are analytic philosophy, thehistory of philosophy and epistemology). She's a talented artist who is searching for ways to bridge her creative imagination and her knowledge. She's also a woodcarver with a penchant for taking on interesting projects.

Stephen Hatcher's creative woodturnings are so masterful, it seems impossible to believe that ten years ago, he didn't even own a lathe. Read more ...

This woodturner has a long history of love for wood and learning. Read more ...

To create his one-of-a-kind furniture, woodworker Tom Jahns goes to the most natural source to collect his materials.  Read more ...

Kathran Siegel builds some very unusual furniture. To call it artistic is too timid. She herself cal...

It's a long way, in two dimensions, from sea level in the Bay Area to Snowmass Village in the Colora...

You may not have heard of Sylvie Rosenthal yet, but you will. At age 23, she's already getting national attention for her creative woodworking & most recently at the Furniture Society conference in Madison.

Some of us get our first taste of woodworking at a late stage in life, but furniture maker and designer David Hurwitz was luckier. He got his start at the same time he started school.

An unusual woodworking venture is discussed by Ophelia Paine and Bob Frapples.  Read more ...

"I was a car freak," Aaron Murray, the maker of Texas Toy Boxes recounted, "and I owned about seven cars during the years between the ages of 15 and 20. Of course, every car had to have a speaker box, so my first woodworking experience was building speaker boxes for my cars and my friends' cars.

Spirit Ayastigi's creation of unique, impressive wooden sinks is just one part of his life as an artist. Read more ...

"I'm actually an artist. The banjo is my canvas," says Bob Flesher, a professional luthier who speci...

This Welsh artisan offers a great history lesson on bodgers, woodturning, and his own woodworking history - throwing in some modern-day advice as well.  Read more ...

Carol Zandell, the talented and creative toy-maker, is involved in woodworking solely for the love of the craft. Read more ...

Visit the web site of Refined Edge Furniture Design , and you’ll see some beautifully handcrafted furniture. Mosey on over to White Mountain Design , and you a

When Ronn Nelson moved in next door to John Witt a few years back, the Delta band saw and lathe he b...

The well-known and loved Router Lady tells the story of her life and her love of woodworking. Read more ...

In many ways, Dave Yoho is the woodworker's woodworker. Even though he's now a devoted craftsman, Da...

had some rosewood plywood he was interested in, but when he got there, it was all out. The guy talke...

The spice rack is a chestnut, if you'll pardon the pun, of woodworking. Homer Simpson made one. Dagw...

Beatrice Hole is fascinated by a musical instrument vital to her native Norwegian culture, and no one but a fine woodworker could make her the instrument she dreamed of playing. Read more ...

The story of a restoration woodworker who has loved his work since he began at fourteen.  Read more ...

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As we reported a few weeks back, building a piano from the ground up is a significantly daunting tas...

When Bill Johnson and a group of retired woodworkers in Florida got serious about making toys for local charities, they turned to the principles of mass production.

Michael Dresdner combines Carol Reed and Barb Siddiqui's perspectives in this article on crown guards. Read more ...

If you want to sit down and talk with John Nesset about the merits of mortises or the troubles with ...

When we last checked in with George Trout, last spring, the high school woodworking teacher was a bi...

Though he didn't dive into full-time carving until he was over forty years old, Vince Giannetto's favorable reputation has grown with every year.  Read more ...

Among the pictures of shop setups, equipment, and works in progress on Woodcentral's Shop Shots gall...

From electronics to wholesale and high-end furniture building, Eugene Watson comments on how it feels to have the job of his dreams - a full-time woodworker. Read more ...

Though he claims to be retired, Bob Sweazey will never tire from working on his skills in his life-long craft of woodworking. Read more ...

Silas Kopf, best known for his signature marquetry work, is a wood-loving craftsman through and through. Read more ...

If you look at the bulk of William LaBerge's work, you'd probably call it Greene and Greene, though by his own admission he uses that merely as a jumping-off point for his own designs. "Rather than doing reproductions, which I've done in the past," LaBerge explains, "I am starting to make my own versions of Greene and Greene and other styles, and it's very exciting."

The North Bennett Street School has a well-deserved reputation for both teaching woodworking excellence and for having a decidedly traditional slant. Both those qualities are instantly apparent in the work of William Thomas, a New Hampshire furniture maker and graduate of the school.

Ross Filbeck's life has always involved woodworking, from a hobby in the 1970s to a teaching job at Palomar and a chance to gift President Carter a rocking chair.  Read more ...

These two "chicks" combine creative designs and quality woodworking for quite the successful operation.

The folks who work for NASA can be pretty intense. They are focused on the single, shared goal of pu...

A cutting-edge school way up north trains its students for the real world of woodworking. Read more ...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of attending the recent Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers Fair (AWFS) in Las Vegas was viewing many stunning finalist projects on display for the 2009 Fresh Wood Student Competition. Now in its third biennial year with AWFS, this competition highlights outstanding construction and design achievements by students in high school and post-secondary woodworking programs in North America.

A few months back, we featured a gallery of woodworking projects from a bunch of high school student...

These astonishingly impressive woodworking projects by Springfield High School students are worth a look. Read more ...

The first American woodworker ever to attend the John Makepeace School of Woodworking tells his impressive story. Read more ...

Betty Scarpino, a new contributing editor for the Woodworker's Journal, is a lifelong woodturner with a knack for creating refreshingly unique pieces. Read more ...

When a woodworker mentions that they also makes boats, one automatically imagines a 17-foot wooden s...