Woodworking

EXHIBITION: Out of Hand (May 6-14, reception: May 6)

by rosalyn

May 3rd, 2010

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CRAFTY BIZ: Two Toques Design at IDS10 (January 21-24)

by jen

Jan 19th, 2010

My husband Mike Kennedy will be showing at the Interior Design Show this year, and I wanted to invite you all out to check out his truly fine (If I do say so myself) work in Studio North, Limited Edition Booth SN-34. I have been living under a solid blanket of wood dust, huddling under our duvet to keep warm while the apartment airs out after another round of oiling & varnishing, and plugging my ears while the thickness planer roars as he’s been preparing over the past couple of months, [...]

CRAFTY BIZ: Business & Passion on Fine Woodworking

by jen

Nov 18th, 2009

The author, Adam King

Today my husband, who is a custom furniture maker, sent me this piece from a section on FineWoodworking.com called “Reflections from the workshops”. In it a woodworker muses about where he went wrong trying to start a woodworking biz from a conventional business standpoint. Despite its title, “This secret cost me $20,000, but I’ll let you have it for free.” I didn’t find that it provided a concrete answer to a dilemma that many of us face – how to make our life’s passion financially [...]