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Amanda and Anissa welcome new FWW staffer Owen Madden to the show to discuss working in a cabinet shop, bandsaw blades, and more. Also, Ben is joined by Logan Wittmer to talk about the upcoming Woodworking In America event.

These two books and one video set Ben Strano on a new course. Maybe you’ll be just as lucky as he was.

Celebrating and considering the woodworkers featured in our 50th-anniversary issue of Fine Woodworking. Find out the masters of the craft in issue #317.

George Sawyer's father, Dave, is a pivotal figure in the renaissance of green-wood and Windsor chairmaking. George’s company, Sawyer Made, has absorbed his father’s example but takes Windsors in a different direction. “I don’t know what the Shakers would think,” George says, “but I like it.”

When Justin Nelson started Fernweh Woodworking in Bend, Ore., in 2014, he was coming off four years in the Marine Corps and then a season on a Forest Service Hotshot crew fighting wildfires. A couple of years in, he was introduced to Sam Maloof’s work. “It boggled my mind,” he says. And it convinced him to turn his business toward furniture.

Woodworking in America is back! This time we will be at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on October 10 and 11

Dawson Moore was farming in Southern California when he happened to take a woodcarving class. From acanthus leaves and ball-and-claw feet, to flatwork cabinetmaking, Dawson was eager to learn. Then one day he read a blog about spoon carving. “I carved a spoon and was immediately hooked."

Danish furniture designers Mette Bentzen and Lasse Kristensen create expressive table sculptures inspired by forms from nature: melting glaciers, icicles, and stalagmites, the face of the moon.

Peraire’s freestanding cabinet, with a locking tambour door that slides down from the top and rolls up in the base, is derived from a utilitarian file cabinet common in Europe in the 19th century.

The seat of Aramburu’s bench features inlaid and stained patches of pine and spruce, randomly placed in a plank of Swedish pine. The legs and stretcher, also solid pine, are coated with milk paint.