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James, a firefighter for 34-plus years, is now retired and spending lots of time in his basement woodworking shop, especially in the winter months. When FWW #248 came out, he…

Made almost entirely of madrone, this cabinet is meant to pay homage to the tree by evoking, with its wavy-edged doors, the madrone’s signature peeling bark. It’s Marcus’s hope that…

Andrew recently built this table, “Ellipse,” as a commission. The oval top has an 18° chamfered edge and a slim, tapered base. Engineering the design for the coopered base was…

Each year Walter makes holiday gifts for family and friends that he can build in batches. When he found an empty whiskey barrel in the alley behind his studio, he…

To complement the custom speaker cabinets Jake had been making, he designed a console. He had a beautiful walnut board sitting around and knew he could make it into something…

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…

This piece was an exercise in iteration. After starting with numerous sketches, Stephen built a half-dozen scale models out of MDF to refine the form. Once that was settled, four…

This piece is titled Even Keel. The design and process of building the cabinet are aligned with the term’s dictionary definition: “noun (nautical) the situation in which a watercraft is…

This cabinet, called Altajwal (Arabic for “The Wanderings”), is part of a series of pieces illustrating the legends of the biblical King Solomon. This one tells the story of Solomon…

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…