Kevin

Common Furniture

I come from farmers and artisans, hanging in my grandmother’s house was a picture of a great-great-grandfather standing behind a barrel in front of the cooperage he worked, hammer in hand. I won’t dare call it, “his cooperage” because I doubt he was more than a worker, like the vast majority of humanity. The furniture […]

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Schematic of a drawbored mortise and tenon joint

What is drawboring?

Drawboring is a joinery technique using wood dowels to hold mortise and tenon joints with pressure. The oldest examples of still functional furniture almost always includes this joinery technique because glue fails but pressure endures. At Drawbore Furniture my goal is to make objects to pass down for generations, which is why I drawbore whenever

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