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.
Inspired by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, the French cabinetmaker who carried Art Deco's most rigorous version into the late 1930s. Zongker's piece pulls the same vocabulary into a working maker's shop — segmented Macassar Ebony, American Holly diamond inlay across the doors, twenty-four interior drawers in soft curly maple.
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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 →Four days of bench demonstrations, member presentations, and the Cartouche Award Banquet — in Manchester, CT, with optional museum and collection tours bracketing the weekend.
The Cartouche Award Banquet opens the Mid-Year Conference on Friday evening, honoring this year's recipient for a lifetime of achievement in the craft.
| 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 |
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Four days at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking in Manchester, CT — bench demonstrations, member presentations, and the Cartouche Award Banquet on Friday evening.
Optional tours bracket the weekend, putting museum collections and private holdings within reach that aren't open on a walk-in basis.
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 
Lindow Clocks 
McFeelys 
E L Henson Inlay and Design 
Hearne Hardwoods, Inc. 
Calvo Wood Carving School 
Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking 
Daniel Faia 
Marc Adams School of Woodworking 
Mary May Woodcarving / Cornerstone Creations 
New Jersey School of Woodworking 
North Bennet Street School 
The Sam Beauford Woodshop 
Woodworking Workshops of the Shenandoah Valley 
Benchcrafted 
Diefenbacher Tools 
Hamilton Woodworks 
Highland Woodworking 
Klingspor 
Lake Erie Toolworks 
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks 
Lubricite Finishes 
MS Bickford 
My Wood Cutters 
Red Rose Reproductions LLC 
Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 
Saw-Sharp 
Shellac Finishes 
Woodcraft Supply Corp 
Winterthur Museum 
Woodcraft Store of Virginia Beach Where the work meets the people who care about it.
