The Joiners Bench
The Joiners Bench features the fine craftsmanship of Chris Gochnour. Chris is an experienced artisan, woodworking instructor, writer, and hand-tool expert. Chris serves as a contributing editor for Fine Woodworking magazine and teaches woodworking professionally.
PORTFOLIO
The Joiners Bench portfolio includes a prolific assortment of furniture styles, including mid-century modern, Shaker, Arts and Crafts, French country, American Southwest and contemporary.
PRIVATE INSTRUCTION
The Joiners Bench offers personal, one-on-one instruction at his studio or at client’s workshop. Students typically select a project and then work with Chris to plan and execute the project. Chris will also provide private skill-based instruction, such as hand tool joinery or hand plane tuning and use.
Take your woodworking to a higher level. Contact Chris at TheJoinersBench@gmail.com to learn more about about private instruction.
VINTAGE TOOLS
As a nationally known traditional woodworking and hand tool expert, Chris loves collecting, using, making, and selling vintage planes, saws, chisels, spokeshaves, scrapers and other traditional woodworking tools. A limited selection of his collection are available for sale below. Contact Chris at TheJoinersBench@gmail.com to inquire about purchasing.
ABOUT CHRIS
Chris Gochnour discovered the pleasure of building things by hand when he made his own skateboards and snowboards as a teenager. His enthusiasm for carving turns on a snowboard was eventually replaced by a passion for building things out of wood and teaching others the craft. For over three decades he has built fine furniture for homes and office buildings throughout the Intermountain West and taught woodworking to artists, hobbyists, and woodworking professionals.
Chris is a contributing editor for Fine Woodworking magazine and has been published in the magazine over 50 times during the past two decades. This list includes links to many of his articles. Chris also teaches woodworking at Salt Lake Community College and in his workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Over the years, Chris has built hundreds of commissioned pieces, including the governor’s desk in the Utah State Capitol.
Chris loves hand tools and is nationally recognized as a preeminent hand tool expert with a passion for using, and sometimes making, planes, saws, chisels, spokeshaves, scrapers and other woodworking tools. Something of a rag-picker, Chris takes great satisfaction from finding old and neglected hand tools and giving them a second chance at life.
When he’s not in his studio or searching for old tools, Chris enjoys cycling, skiing, and spending time with his family.