The other day I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was roped into helping my brother load a family heirloom bookcase into his minivan.  This is a bookcase that my father got from his father who got it ... Read more

Last weekend I had the misfortune of having something on the motherboard of my computer malfunction.  In less than the blink of an eye I had absolutely no access to my hard drive - a totally dead compute that ... Read more

I have been drawing furniture with 2 dimensional CAD (Computer Aided Design) programs for many years (probably 20+ ) and have always found 3D programs (where you draw the piece and rotate it to view it from any angle) ... Read more

I frequently get emails from people who are interested in becoming a furniture maker or have recently started a furniture making business and are wondering if I would be willing to give them some advice. Usually they ... Read more

Every since I saw Al Gore's movie The Inconvenient Truth I've been reading a lot of books about global warming - both the science that leads to the conclusion that this is really happening and possible solutions to the ... Read more

Once upon a time there was a furniture maker who worked long hours building simple (but well made and beautiful) furniture in his workshop in Putney, Vermont. At the end of every day he would go home and check his email ... Read more

Members of the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers are all fiercely independent having achieved an extremely high level of skill in the art of furniture making and figured out a way to make a living at this. Both of these ... Read more