About this item
What do you get when an accomplished woodworker and senior editor of Fine Woodworking magazine sets himself the challenge of designing and building one box a week for a solid year? You get 52 Boxes in 52 Weeks, a book dedicated to making relatively simple -- yet gracefully elegant -- boxes that woodworkers of all skill levels will be eager to build. Readers will begin by learning the fundamental box-making techniques that are applicable to almost every box in the book: how to match grain at corners, how to cut miters, how to make tops and bottoms, and how to finish a box with shellac, sometimes highlighted with milk paint ( a major trend in finishing right now) . Following that, Kenney reveals some universal design principles that can be used as guidance as readers develop their own design aesthetic. And then, of course, the book transitions to instructions on designing and building the boxes themselves -- all 52 of them!
About the Author
Matt Kenney is a professional furniture maker, author, and woodworking instructor. He also is one of the hosts of The Matt and Joe Woodworking Fun Hour podcast. He's been making things from wood his entire life. As a kid in Florida, he'd help his dad, a contractor, around the house, and built tree forts and skate ramps with his brother. During his second year in graduate school, he started to make furniture. Five years later, a local professional furniture maker (father to one of his students) took Matt into his shop and taught him how furniture is really made. Eventually, Matt ended up at Fine Woodworking magazine, where in addition to his editorial and photographic work, he wrote articles for the print magazine, and appeared in videos produced for its website. To see what he's working on in his shop at home, check out Matt's Instagram feed: @mekwoodworks.
