MSU Wood

05/14/2016

It's been a good year, babies. For you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwkej79U3ek

Music video by Vanessa Carlton performing A Thousand Miles. (C) 2000 Interscope Records

03/29/2016

Coming this week, all the way from Saluda, North Carolina!

01/26/2016

This is the face of success. I haven't cut finger joints in, oh, 18 years. Literally since my first semester in wood. But I did it ON MY FIRST TRY in demo today! Merciful Jesus!

09/17/2015

Dear children, this is pretty good stuff.

Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.

09/09/2015

Perfect. In every way, just perfect.

08/16/2015

Advanced Wood Babies: the key is back in your studio door if you want to get ready for the semester. See you Tuesday!

04/17/2015

Instructions on Becoming a Wood Ninja: Finishing Edition

http://www.core77.com/posts/36044/The-Kanna-Finish-How-to-Get-Glass-Smooth-Surfaces-in-Wood-Without-Sandpaper-or-Varnish

Sandpaper has to be the number one consumable in the modern-day furniture shop. But a subset of craftspeople, like Toshio Tokunaga and his four apprentices, don't use any of the stuff—yet are still able to achieve a glass-like finish on their furniture pieces, even absent varnish. Anti-sandpaper fur…

03/21/2015

If we listened to these wiseacres, then where would we be? But seriously, maybe think about this.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-confirms-no-need-to-make-new-chairs-for-the,36470/?fb_action_ids=10152840077832620&fb_action_types=og.shares

WASHINGTON—A report released Tuesday by a team of researchers at the Brookings Institution has confirmed that the United States currently has enough chairs and there is no urgent need to produce new ones. Representing a five-year inquiry into the na...

03/19/2015

Check out the work of Jordan Gehman and Adam Manley, especially all you Advanced babies thinking about seating!

https://flatrateexchange.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/introducing-parcel-stool/

Introducing the "PARCEL" stool! Parcel is the first project under the Flat Rate Exchange Design moniker and based on the parameters of the flat rate mailing options through USPS and FedEx. These si...

05/15/2014

pet the bunny!

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05/08/2014

MSU Wood-o-philes. On the fence about attending this years Furniture Society Conference?? Here is something to sweeten the pot, a chance to win a SawStop Cabinet saw!!

Ten out of Ten fingers recommend of these saws!

Guess what we're raffling off at conference? YES! A SawStop Industrial Cabinet Saw. These are very nice machines and they have the added benefit that several 9-fingered folks wish they'd known about. Buy your raffle tickets at conference and keep all your digits!

04/22/2014

For you cat people

Wait a minute. Is that a cat inside a table? Created by Ruan Hao for Hangzhou and Hong Kong-based architecture firm LYCS, CATable is a functional wood table t…