Publications

An annual journal for the library.
A quarterly magazine for the bench.

Written by members. Edited by Bob Lang and the P&T team. One in your mailbox each December; the other in your inbox every quarter.

American Period Furniture Annual journal · 25 volumes · cover: 2024

Pins & Tales Quarterly magazine · 71 issues · cover: Summer 2026

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APF 2024 · Relationship Issues — Period Pie Crust Table · 10 pages

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Pins & Tales · Art Deco Jewelry Cabinet by Dennis Zongker

The annual journal · since 2001

American Period Furniture

The journal runs at least a hundred pages of original editorial each year — long-form articles on tools, techniques, design, and the history of the craft and its makers. Printed in the United States on durable gloss paper, intended to be part of your reference library for years to come.

Articles come from members, working makers, conservators, historians — anyone with knowledge to share. If that's you, the editors will help you turn an idea into an article.

Twenty-five volumes and counting.

In the 2024 volume · 12 articles, 100+ pages

What's in this year's journal

A Case for Fine Furniture by John Ogilvie
6
Early Lessons Lead to Lifetime Achievement by Marion Smith
12
Deceptively Simple by Steven Lash
20
Rescue of a Rare Survivor by Michael Mascelli
32
Hepplewhite-Inspired Side Chair by Daniel Faia
38
The Remains of Pen Park by Nancy Kraus
48

Games, Gams & Guns by Tim DeMars
56
Shop Organization by Bob Baker
64
18th-Century Tea Kettle Stand by Denise Palko
68
Relationship Issues by Ray Journigan
78 Read this article →
Busy in Retirement by Robert Stevenson
88
Adventure in Inlay by David Heller
92

The quarterly magazine · published since 2008

Pins & Tales

Where the journal is long-form research, Pins & Tales is what's happening across the chapters — the visiting maker at the New England meeting, the study group on hand-cut dovetails, the Makers Challenge entries that just came in, the maker who finally finished a Federal sideboard he's been at for two years. Published as a PDF in March, June, September, and December.

Local-chapter reporting, profiles of working builders, a calendar of what's coming up. Pins & Tales is where the community gathers each quarter.

In the Summer 2026 issue

Conference plans, a Portsmouth tea caddie, and a road trip to the museums.

The Summer 2026 issue lays out October's Conference in Manchester — the field trips, the presenters, and the banquet honoring Tim Killen — and opens the season: nominations for the 2027 Cartouche, registration for the Phil Lowe Makers Challenge. Chapter reports run from the private Chipstone collection to a shop reproducing Thomas Jefferson's field pieces, with a farewell to Ronnie Young and a welcome to new associate editor Matthew Shockey.