John Cameron

When you visit John Cameron’s shop in Gloucester, Mass., he may not answer your knock. It’s not a lack of sociability, and it’s not the noise of machines; more likely, he’ll be oblivious because he’s operating the largest hand tool in the shop: a 1928 Baldwin grand piano. In addition to being a superb furniture designer and craftsman, he is a professional musician who played sax and keyboards in the ska band Bim Skala Bim before turning to woodworking in the early 1990s, and he continues to play out regularly. Prints of his engravings are available at johncameroncabinetmaker.com.