The knowledge in this craft lives in scattered people, and not enough of it gets written down. SAPFM gathers both — at chapter meetings, at the annual conference, on the pages of the journal and the magazine — so the work sharpens with practice and the record of how American furniture is made, and was made, thickens behind us.
2026 SAPFM Annual Conference — four days at Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking in Manchester, CT. Open to all — you don't have to be a member to attend. The Cartouche Award Banquet honors Tim Killen.
Registration opens July 24.
2026 SAPFM Annual Conference — four days at Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking in Manchester, CT. Open to all — you don't have to be a member to attend. The Cartouche Award Banquet honors Tim Killen.
2026 SAPFM Annual Conference — four days at Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking in Manchester, CT. The Cartouche Award Banquet honors Tim Killen.
The 2026 SAPFM Annual Conference has concluded. Watch this space for 2027.
A method first published more than thirty years ago and rediscovered through a 2013 Popular Woodworking article: a shop-made jig walks the square seat blank across a customized blade in eighth-inch passes, with a U-turn midway, until the saddle appears. Sunderland builds the bridge, the guide block and the blade, and finishes the surface with a sander or, for the older look, a scorp.
Read the article →
One of thirty-six videos in the SAPFM archive. Chapter markers let you jump to specific demonstrations.
Watch the series →A working session on hand-cut dovetails, hosted in a member's shop near Atlanta — one of dozens of chapter gatherings across the country through the year.
See what other chapters are up to →
More than 7,800 pieces, photographed and catalogued from seven of the country's museum collections — and searchable in one place.
Browse the collection →
Finished work from members across the country, added as it comes off the bench — faithful reproductions and original designs alike.
See member work →A remembrance dinner for Ronnie Young, Friday, October 16, open to everyone. Sign up by Wednesday, October 14.
Have you signed up for the 2026 SAPFM Annual Conference?
Save the dates: January 21-24, 2027
| Chapter | Area served |
|---|---|
| Northern New England | Maine · New Hampshire · Vermont |
| Southern New England | Massachusetts · Connecticut · Rhode Island |
| Delaware River Valley | Delaware · Pennsylvania · New Jersey |
| Chesapeake | Maryland · DC · Northern Virginia |
| Tidewater | Hampton Roads · coastal Virginia & North Carolina |
| Carolinas | North & South Carolina |
| Peach State | Georgia · Atlanta & nearby |
| Florida | Central Florida · Tampa · St. Pete |
| Ohio River Valley | Ohio · Kentucky |
| Gateway | Missouri · St. Louis |
| Lone Star | Texas |
| San Francisco Bay Area | Northern California |
| ten more chapters · full directory → | |
Two makers — Steve Lash and Mickey Callahan — sat at the same table at the Working Wood in the 18th Century conference in Williamsburg, January 1999. By the end of the year, SAPFM was incorporated. More than twenty-five years on: twenty-two chapters, two publications, a national conference each year, and the quiet network underneath it all.
Ball and Ball 
Horton Brasses 
E L Henson Inlay and Design 
Hearne Hardwoods, Inc. 
Read Watch Do 
Upholstery Education 
Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking 
Daniel Faia 
Marc Adams School of Woodworking 
Mary May Woodcarving / Cornerstone Creations 
North Bennet Street School 
The Sam Beauford Woodshop 
Shellac Shack 
Benchcrafted 
Diefenbacher Tools 
Hamilton Toolworks 
Highland Woodworking 
Klingspor 
Lake Erie Toolworks 
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks 
Lubricite Finishes 
MS Bickford 
My Wood Cutters 
Red Rose Reproductions LLC 
Saw-Sharp 
Shellac Finishes 
Woodcraft Store of Virginia Beach 
Fine Woodworking 
Winterthur Museum Where the work meets the people who care about it.
