The Workshop: Celebrating the Place where Craftsmanship Begins

A workshop is much more than a physical place full of tools. It is the place where a woodworker imagines, designs, tries, fails and succeeds in making something beautiful out of wood. Some shops are used to earn a living, some to pass on the craft. In all shops new designs are forged, limits are tested, and art is created.
Author Scott Gibson takes you on a guided tour of over 30 workshops. Youll meet furniture makers, boat builders, turners, and others – all of whom share a common love: creating in wood. Over 290 photos give you an inside look at these outstanding shops. Youll learn how they evolved and how they suit the individual needs of the woodworkers who own them.

The Workshop:
• Is a highly visual look at more than 30 amazing workshops and the fascinating people who use them.
• Celebrates the wide variety of wood craft, providing points of inspiration and identification for anyone dreaming of becoming a woodworker.
• Uses the shops and visits to their owners/users to tell the story of why people are drawn to creative expression in wood.
About the author
Scott Gibson is a former editor at Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking and Home Furniture magazines who now works as a freelance writer, editor and photographer from his home in southern Maine. A contributing editor to Fine Homebuilding, he writes about residential building, architecture and furniture for a number of publications. He is a long-time furniture maker whose work has appeared in Fine Woodworking.

"This is not just another book about shops – not that I ever mind the opportunity to snoop around other woodworker's shops and shop solutions. Instead, Scott acknowledges that our shops are, in essence, a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) expression of their owners – and that breathes life as well as lessons into these stories of workspaces around the country".

– Jim Tolpin