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.
Furniture Making Intensive with Brian Boggs
Applications Open through November 8
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.
$79
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
Nano Hone makes my favorite flat stones and guide. But I am questioning what I use them for, not whether they are essential to my sharpening kit. In my prior essay, Abrasive Behavior, I introduced a way of grinding that
I’ve been thinking lately about how my path into woodworking became the best school I could have attended. Subscribe to our newsletter When I was around twenty years old, I was discouraged about painting and
There’s a line from Malcolm Gladwell’s conversation with Paul Simon in Miracle and Wonder that has stayed with me. “The modern world tends to reward artists for staying recognizable, consistent, marketable, and safe.” You see
My neighbor Saul wanted to put curves into his work. He just didn’t trust his saw to cut them. A few weeks ago I wrote about fear in craftsmanship — how it disguises itself as