WAYNESVILLE — Local retired teacher and shaker box maker, John P. Kerns, knows it takes more than four pieces of wood to make a shaker box, it takes passion. Kerns, 66, opened his Shaker Box store in ...

Students from Assistant Professor of Art History Dana Byrd’s course American Furniture, By Design recently had a hands-on experience at the Bowdoin Craft Center. Under the tutelage of Bowdoin’s ...

Master Woodworker, Dean Gregory, takes host, Matt Burchett, through the process of creating a shaker box with some thin sheets of wood, a few tools, and some steam. Making is available to stream on ...

Steve Strouse, of Bellefonte, makes Shaker boxes from local salvaged wood. CDT/Nabil K. Mark Steve Strouse does more than make Shaker-style boxes in the workshop behind his Benner Township home. He ...

ASHBURNHAM — Bob Brennan started making Shaker oval boxes to see if he could. Now it’s become a way of life. “You can make anything, any type of box,” he said Friday. Shaker oval boxes were made by ...

Keith Dickson pulled a thin slab of cherry wood from a pile wrapped tight with plastic and placed it in a long rectangular box filled with boiling water. “Some nights I bend 50 to 100 bands of wood,” ...