Video: Being Peter Follansbee – FineWoodworking

*editor’s word: You’ll discover this video simply begins—no intro, no fanfare. It was all too good to chop. 

Follansbee, the youngest of 5, grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts. When he was 17, he Inherited his father’s store stuffed with energy instruments. An artist, he started studying to make use of the desk noticed and different issues to make image frames at first. Then one factor led to a different. He dropped out of artwork faculty in 1976. Then Follansbee started studying conventional woodworking in 1980 in Jennie Alexander’s second chairmaking course at Drew Langsner’s Nation Workshops. From there, he gave away all of his energy instruments and spent over 20 years making replica furnishings at Plimoth Patuxet Museums (then Plimoth Plantation), the residing historical past museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts. When he isn’t woodworking he’s spending time along with his spouse and two kids or watching birds.

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