The quarterly magazine

Pins & Tales

SAPFM’s quarterly e-magazine, published as a PDF in March, June, September, and December. Member project write-ups, technique pieces, class notes, new-board introductions, and reporting from the regional chapters.

Where the annual journal carries long-form research, Pins & Tales carries the year’s pulse — what members are building, where they’re meeting, who just won the Makers Challenge, what’s coming up at the conference.

Articles come from members. The editorial team is always asking what you’re working on.

In the Fall 2026 issue

A Windsor seat scooped on the table saw, scratch stocks for a serpentine molding, and a preview of the 2026 journal.

The Fall 2026 issue opens with associate editor Matthew Shockey’s first column and David Feola’s question to members: what counts as period furniture? Wes Sunderland scoops a Windsor seat on the table saw with a shop-made jig, Michael Stiennon carves a goose-neck pediment’s serpentine molding with a set of scratch stocks, and Bob Lang previews American Period Furniture 2026 — Tim Killen’s Townsend tea table, Ray Journigan’s Cadwalader chair, and the 1 November address deadline. Chapter reports from the Ohio River Valley, Blue Ridge, Northern New England, Peach State, Rock River Valley and Great Lakes, Substack reading from Alf Sharp and Christopher Storb, and a farewell to Yale curator Patricia Kane.

How to get it

Members

Delivered as a PDF four times a year. The full archive (back to 2008) lives in the Bench.

Non-members

Read the current issue — Pins & Tales, Fall 2026 — free. Leave an email and we’ll open it for you, and let you know when the next one is out.

Become a member → for every issue going forward and the full archive.