Quick Guide to Wood Joinery
The world of woodworking joinery can be overwhelming, with joints that range from simple to complex, traditional to novel. From fast and easy dowel joints to strong and beautiful dovetails, this post has all the information you need to choose the right joint for your next project.
Shop Notes
Meet Christoph Noe
Christoph Noe is a designer, amateur musician and passionate guitar builder. In his Munich-based shop On Guitars, he builds custom electric guitars and basses according to his customers' needs. With Origin, he brings craftsmanship and digital precision into perfect harmony.
Furniture
Carpentry start-up manufactures lamps with Origin
kln.swiss blends modern design and production techniques with a traditional sensibility in their reclaimed lumber projects
Fine Woodworking
Quick Guide to Wood Joinery
The world of woodworking joinery can be overwhelming, with joints that range from simple to complex, traditional to novel. From fast and easy dowel joints to strong and beautiful dovetails, this post has all the information you need to choose the right joint for your next project.
Shop Notes
Meet Philip Morley
Philip Morley builds custom furniture in Wimberley, Texas. He regularly uses Origin in his shop for templates, fixtures, and short production runs of custom furniture.
Fine Woodworking
Essential Shop Tools
Whether you’re new to woodworking, or looking to round out your arsenal, the following tools will give you the ability to build almost anything out of wood.
Shaper News
Welcome to Inverness
Designing projects on Origin is now better than ever. With new and improved layout capabilities, Inverness brings even more control and precision to your woodworking projects.
Meet Philip Morley
Philip Morley builds custom furniture in Wimberley, Texas and is a cofounder of the Austin School of Furniture. As a classically trained woodworker, his work is firmly grounded in history and a respect for tradition.
Sessions
Bringing Shaper experts to you, live from Shaper HQ! Tune in for in-depth tutorials, walk-throughs, demos, live Q&A, and awesome giveaways!
Project Build - Leah Amick's Plant Stand
This week on Shaper Sessions we're building Leah Amick's latest project - an adjustable plant stand, built to accommodate pots of various diameters through clever joinery. Learn about working with threaded inserts, design for repeatability, and joinery with Origin as we build Leah's plant stand live!
May 5, 2022
Project Build: Jake's Chair
You've seen Jake's build progress on Instagram, and it's finally time to unveil the result! Jake's #shapermade chair came with some great successes and interesting challenges, and we're excited to share everything we learned with you - from furniture joinery to Danish cord weaving and more.
April 21, 2022
Inlay 201: Sand Shading
Sand shading is unique a way to give your inlays depth, found everywhere from Federalist furniture to intricate marquetry. Traditional shading patterns can be cut with hand tools, but what happens when you want to make something more intricate? In this Session, join Jake and Russ as they use sand shading to add dimension to the petals of a Columbine flower.
April 7, 2022