Brian Reid

Aug 16, 2024 | finewoodworking.com | Brian Reid |Jonathan Binzen |Ben Strano

After studying woodworking in the mid-1990s at Parnham College, in Dorset, England, Brian Reid returned home to Seattle with a gift from his teacher, Robert Ingham: a stack of planks from a flitch-cut yew tree. In the ensuing years Reid built furniture in Washington, then Colorado, and now in Maine, yet never touched the yew. “I carried that log through 10 moves,” Reid says.