Asheville, North Carolina
Brian Boggs
Furniture Designer. Tool Innovator. Teacher.
The "why" behind the "how."
More than forty years of designing, making,
teaching, and refining how things work.
Learn From Brian
Online Courses
Forty years of furniture making, design, problem solving, and shop-tested methods distilled into practical instruction.
Card Scraper Mastery
Learn to sharpen, use, and read a card scraper at levels you might not have considered. The shop's most underestimated tool.
$125
Drill Press Precision
We don’t need to always oversize holes to ensure they align. We just need better set-ups. In this video Brian explains simple basic set-ups that ensure holes align with a precision that many think we need CNC systems to hit.
Free
Finishing Wand
A game-changing trick for applying streak wipe-on finishes. You can make this and generate finishes from Waterlox to wipe-on Polyester, and other thin film finishes that make your projects glow with perfection.
$14
Timber Frame Table
Fear no curve. This course will teach you how to master bandsawn curves in a way that will change how you think about designing and making furniture. Instead of avoiding curves, you will invite every chance you get to use them.
$800
Recent Writing
From the Bench
This 2016 limited anniversary edition of my shaving horse was produced in our shop, commemorating shared anniversaries with Lie-Nielsen and Fine Woodworking. This one is coming with me to Handworks. I designed it in the late 1980s and then Fine
Over the years many of you have seen Brian’s writing in different places — in magazine articles, in our shop newsletters, and occasionally through our social channels. People have often encouraged him to share more
I stopped by a chairmaking class years ago where the students were drilling the holes for their greenwood chair frames. Each had their front panels assembled and were drilling the side rung holes while checking
I have a short list of questions I ask new employees to test their knowledge. All of these questions ask about something I am pretty sure they won’t know the answer to. Not a mean