Sitemap - 2023 - Follansbee's Substack

New project; dressing box test-run

Jennie Alexander's foray into Joinery

Some details about the Braintree chests

Marks on a Stick

Pole lathe tour

Some house furniture

Back in the shop, chopping mortises

Last 2 boxes for 2023

White pine tops & bottoms

for sale from the loft

Some geometry before carving

More strapwork work

a partial bibliography of 17th furniture

I Met the First One Last

Kenelm Winslow, joyner

Maureen's Fiber Arts

Acer saccharum

Designing strapwork patterns

Church

Till lids; holes & pintles

2 chairs & a box for sale

Shaved chairs, turned chairs...

Overhangs & pendants

more strapwork carvings

the workbench at 22 years or so

A box, years in the making

Hewing joinery stock

more about the strapwork carving

Nothing New Under the Sun...

a table is next, then on to the next next thing

Carved drawer front

Timber framing

Why do I use hand-tools?

more period records; the turner's company of London

False muntins on the cornice rail

My introduction to joinery

decoration on the cupboard's upper case

Where to begin?

2 ladderback chairs for sale

Chairs, chairs, chairs...

Some different patterns for seat weaving

Mistakes

Boring setup for JA chairs

Chairmaking

a snippet from my Craft Genealogy

video of applied turnings

Test fitting the cornice & soffit begun

looking at a Dave Sawyer ladderback

opening in JA chair class Sept 11-16

a chairmakers' picnic

more Boston joinery research

17th-century Boston inventories

Arches, keystones & imposts

Arches, pt. 2: Turning

Chest plans on sale

Arches, part 1

Cupboard project: making progress

JA, PF & Joinery

Drawers this way & that

Cupboard project

Work begun

Green woodworking; sort of

other 17th century cupboards

Test assembly: upper case

Books about tools

the cupboard project:

Moldings & miters

kids' ladderback specs

Tool marks from period pieces

Cupboard project: turning pillars

Cupboard progress; door moldings/frames

17th century wages, etc.

German bench dogs: Making a tapered chair leg

German bench dogs

three more chairs

Summertime

1680s cupboard project

JA’s still in my head

Tools in 17th-century records

New oak log

Three chairs

Joiner's Work & More