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More than 20 years ago, before The Wood Whisperer and before I had much experience in the shop, I built this country bookcase for my mother-in-law. It was probably the third piece of furniture I ever made. After several moves and more than two decades of use, it finally came back to my shop for a few repairs.
That gave me a rare chance to look closely at my own beginne...
On a recent Woodworking Morning Show, a live stream I do every Friday with my wife, Nicole, a viewer asked a simple question: “What, according to you, is fine furniture? How do you define it? When one comes across a piece of furniture, how does he/she decide if it’s a specimen of fine furniture or not?”
A tired but funny show. We spent the morning fighting a broken checkout on the Guild site, so the Back to School sale got rebuilt with three working codes: BTS20 for one course, BTS30 for two, and BTS40 for three or more. Every purchase also comes with a free bundle of 10 S...
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Is Traditional Finishing Dead? (free article) https://thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/is-traditional-finishing-dead/
American Mantelpieces by Gary Katz and Todd Murdock (pre-order, not on Amazon yet)
I had to do something recently that I haven’t done in a long time: I had to match an old finish. I was in the middle of repairing an old bookcase I made for my mother-in-law about 22 years ago (I believe it was my third real project), and one of the repairs involved reinstalling the shiplap back. Apparently, attaching pine tongue-and-groove boards by brad nailing into the end...