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Yes, Megan and Brendan are Alive

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This week, Popular Woodworking Magazine is short two employees as Megan Fitzpatrick and Brendan Gaffney have joined me on a chair class in Maryland. We're building a version of the Jennie Alexander chair from Make a Chair From a Tree with Larry Barrett - one of Jennie's students and friends. If you think that taking a class is easy for an experienced woodworking magazine editor, think again. No matter how […]The post Yes, Megan and Brendan are Alive appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Steam-bending Oak in the Kitchen

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As Christopher Schwarz posted on his blog, Brendan Gaffney and I are in Maryland for a chair class with Larry Barrett (along with Chris, Narayan Nayar and Sean Thomas); Larry is teaching us to make chairs a la Jennie Alexander's in “Make a Chair from a Tree” (with some minor variations). Today, we split out the back posts from red oak (and some punishing black oak…with which I ended up) […]The post Steam-bending Oak in the Kitchen appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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Further Insights into Harris Lebus Sideboard

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The November 2017 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine features a reproduction of a sideboard made in 1903 by the English furniture manufacturing company Harris Lebus. I built this sideboard based on drawings I'd made in 2007 from measurements of an original owned by some acquaintances. Having had a chance to visit that same original sideboard recently, I thought readers would be interested in gaining further insights and seeing details of […]The post Further Insights into Harris Lebus Sideboard appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.

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