Fine Woodworking - Page 4 of 14

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…

The Gallery in Fine Woodworking #263 featured a piece by David Gasson that Paul says just reached out and grabbed him. Paul built this response to it during the COVID…

Inspired by both the Arts and Crafts movement and Japanese furniture, this fumed white oak and leather firewood rack was conceived as a showpiece that would be at home in…