Each month, a long-form conversation with a working maker, a conservator, a curator, or a historian — the kind of talk that ordinarily lives between two people at one bench. The Society records it so the rest of us get to be in the room. Thirty-six in the archive.
Editor of American Period Furniture on what twelve years of writing the first book on SketchUp for woodworkers taught him about drawing from the bench out.
Thirty years of all-hand-tool experience on one of the most physical operations at the bench.
Green woodworking from a one-man shop in Jonesborough, Tennessee. His chairs are in Monticello and the Tennessee State Museum.
A former chemical engineer specializing in Federal, Art Deco, and Art Nouveau marquetry — and the hot-sand shading that gives veneer its illusion of depth.
The Director of Bayou Bend on the collection, its makers, and what curators can tell working makers that the pieces themselves cannot.
How a 1999 meeting at Colonial Williamsburg became the Society — told by the co-founder and first president.
Thirty-six videos, with time-stamped chapter markers and transcripts across the whole archive. Jump straight to the demonstration you came for.
