Last week I told you about an exciting project from Craig Thibodeau in a blog entitled, “Sometimes a Great Notion.” It’s a glorious freestanding headboard that calls for a lot of marquetry work. This week I would like to tell you how Craig made it.

If you know the right woodworkers, though, much of the battle has been done, and in this case, the client knew Craig Thibodeau. I’ve written about Craig before in these blogs; in fact he was one of my first subjects in 2008 when Joe Dusel and I were getting this blog site off the ground.

Share   Inspiration for my shoe bench designs comes from a lot of different places. The pattern for the sides of our new Kami bench is a stylization of a Japanese Torii gate. The torii gates are typically found at the entrance of Shinto shrines.  Kami is the Japanese word for spirits, but it can [...]

Share    Part of what makes it fun to be a studio furniture maker is that I get to come up with new designs. Of course, as with most artisans, I get a lot of my ideas looking at the works of others. But the last thing I want to do is an exact replica [...]