As a guy who barely passed high school shop class, I never thought I’d actually build a real piece of furniture from scratch. But three weeks ago, I built a folding workbench—and my wife didn’t believe I made it myself.
So what changed?
I stumbled upon something called the Modern Woodworker’s Master Collection. It wasn’t on Amazon, not in any big box store. It looked like something only insiders knew about.
Turns out, it was created by a retired aerospace engineer named Bevis who developed it to teach his teenage son how to build furniture the right way.
He originally designed the plans for use in a local school program. But word got out—and now it’s quietly spreading among DIYers who want results that don’t look “DIY.”