Woodworking Projects and Plans

Former industrial designer Gerard Furbershaw now creates art furniture, which he describes as "art you can sit on." He fashions most of his pieces out of 13-ply maple plywood, using positive/negative space to make forms that are about half plywood and half empty space.

Matt Monaco creats a bowl with a clean, classical simplicity of shape that he sees as wooden pottery.

When asked to create a simple coat rack, Christian Becksvoort came up with this design, which includes a rod for hangers as well as shelves for shoes and hats.

Scott McGlasson's chair combines mid-century style and hardwood scraps into a cool, comfortable chair.

Geometric marquetry gives this mitered black-and-white box an optical buzz.

This pair of speakers was included in a larger article by Andrew Gibson in FWW #312 titled, “Build Your Own Speakers.” The main project in the article, however, was a…

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Tusk tenons cinch the tilted sides in this handsome, moveable piece.

If there's a 17th-century decorative technique not featured in this nifty piece, we can't think of it

Turn a sleek pepper grinder without visible hardware using Matt Monaco's design.