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Defining success It s not about money, but about a building a life that brings you meaning, pleasure, and satisfaction What does it mean to be a successful furniture maker? I’m always struck by the diversity of ways in which woodworkers answer this question, whether they earn their living from woodworking or pursue it as an avocation in their spare time. While I was a training to make furniture 40 years ago, my fellow students, all men, judged success competitively, comparing their work with that of others. Whose bridle joint fit the best? Whose blind dovetails? Harder joints were worth more. If candidates were equally matched in technical skill, speed became a factor in the accounting: Faster was always better. In fact, impressing others any way you could was generally better, so the cooler the tricks you could muster to wow the socks off your friends and others (the perfect sand-shaded shell inlay, the most convincing relief-carved rendition of a thick hemp rope, a see ....
Selecting lumber for an invisible glued-up panel In this master class episode, Tom McLaughlin demonstrates how he selects lumber and mills it to prepare for an almost invisible slip-matched panel joint. Sponsored by Welcome to this week’s edition of “Ben bragging about his job!” I’ve always been intimidated at the lumberyard and in turn, I always rush through my lumber selection. Many times, that means I instinctually buy the prettiest boards that I can find. Granted, this is better than instinctually buying the ugliest boards, but in my time working at Fine Woodworking I have learned that many times the prettiest board isn’t the best board for a piece of furniture. In the days before Covid, all of the woodworkers at the office would pile into a van and go to the lumberyard together as one big (kinda dorky) woodworking gang. Once we muscled our way into the lumber sheds, we’d help each other dig through stacks of hardwood pointing out grain el ....