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Culture + Commerce Project in Hudson New York is one of my favorite furniture galleries. I stumbled upon it two years ago while attending a weekend wedding in the charming town of Hudson. It [...]

While reading the newspaper today I encountered a fascinating story. Scientists in England discovered the first known creature to develop a machine like gear, a mechanism never before observed in [...]

The Museum Of Design in Atlanta (http://www.museumofdesign.org/current-exhibitions/) is displaying a furniture exhibit designed by world renowned architects/designers and buit by patients in a [...]

After I turned, painted, and finished the handles, I found some beautiful scraps of wood such as birch, walnut, and ash, and mounted the handles onto them using epoxy adhesive. After branding [...]

Steff’s class was great, but I also found time to experiment with new designs for one of my tried and true products – turned handle cutting boards. I have been making these boards for [...]

Last time I showed you pictures of Deer Island, Maine and the woodshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Steff's class was 5 days long. During that time we lived on the Haystack campus, [...]

This blog entry is way over due. So much as a year delay. But there is a reason why I am publishing it now. That is that at end of the three postings on my teaching in Maine I will …

I made the template from 1/2 MDF. I constructed the template’s reduce along the contour of smallest corner from the eight that we bought. This way I ensured that after routing the recesses [...]

The bracket corner straps that I used were made from a short piece of thin brass that was drilled and bent. In order to install all of them, don’t ask me how many, I devised a template. [...]

In order to install the large-sized handles I had to create a bigger template system that, although shared the same principles with the previous template, had one or two new variants. I made the [...]

However good my template was I still had to recruit some hand tools for the task of final fitting it. You see, routing, even with the smallest bit will still leave you with round corners, and to [...]

We bought two sizes of sunken handles, medium and large (both from Paxton Hardware). We also purchased round corners, and bracket corner straps (from Rockler). I began by devising a versatile [...]