Making Furniture in a Traditional Way

Working fine hardwood in traditional ways is demanding, exacting, and physical.  By "traditional" ways I mean that our hands and eyes and skill are paramount to the process and that we use proven methods of joinery, tested by time.

This is not traditional woodworking in the pre-industrial sense.  Although we get our backs into our living, we do use electric power tools, some very old, some new, some I built.  We use the tooling, glues, and finishes that are the best products of the science of our time.  But we don't use automated machines controlled by computer.  We measure and draw lines, then saw and shape.  We sculpt complex surfaces and contours by the interplay of vision and experience.

Our furniture making may be traditional in another sense.  Like artisans working before mass marketing, we work directly for our patrons.  Even though our patrons are not all local, we serve them as part of our community, nonetheless.  That connection adds an intangible value to a workday of concrete progress on objects of great beauty and utility.