The Magic of Iron & Fire

Don Weber Blacksmith, chairmaking, Interviews, Metalwork, October 2005, Popular Metalworking

A chairmaker explains his fascination with the ancient art of blacksmithing and being able to make his own woodworking tools. It was April of 1986, and I’d just arrived at a craft show up a long dirt road, an …
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Tree-Hugging Shop

American Woodworker Editors AW131, Interviews, My Shop, Skilled Woodworker, Workshop, Workshop Tour

After designing and building custom furniture in southern California for 24 years, I finally got to build my dream workshop. Inspired by the Craftsman style and the designs of the brothers Green, my shop cradles a 100-year-old eucalyptus tree in &#8230…

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Woodworking in America: Nadia Dugger

Collin Knoff 50 States 50 Woodworkers, Diversity In Woodworking, Interviews, People and Places, women in woodworking, Woodworking Future, Woodworking in America

We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Nadia Dugger, a woodworker and small business owner from Oklahoma. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? A little background about me: I grew up in Kharkiv, &#82…

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The Art of Michael Ferris

Collin Knoff Intarsia, Interviews, People and Places, Sculpture

A look into the larger-than-life. Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest places. Take a tree stump bust and an inlay backgammon table for example. Two very different woodworking mediums that couldn’t be further apart, but for artist Micha…

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Dan Dragon’s Torii Table Part 4: Drawer, Finish, and Assembly

Yoav Liberman Interviews, Japanese Woodworking, People and Places

In this last wrap-up entry of my four-part series on Dan Dargon’s Torii table I will show how Dan build the table’s drawer, applied finished, and finally assembled it all. Read: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 With its grill-like …
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