04/07/2026
Two days before I was supposed to deliver a dining table to a neighbor, I had to take the whole frame apart and rebuild it. The joinery was wrong. I'd measured it out, cut it, glued it up — and it still didn't sit right. That was one of my first paid jobs, and it taught me more about wood movement and proper joinery than any book I'd read up to that point.
I'm Md Maraj. I've been working with wood professionally since 2014, and I've run my own furniture business since 2019 — based in Bangladesh, building for clients who mostly never see the mistakes behind the finished piece. Over the years I've built and sold 247 furniture pieces.
When I was starting out, I spent hours searching for real, honest project walkthroughs — and mostly found two things: generic tips recycled from other blogs, or content clearly built to sell tools rather than teach the craft. Everyone shows the finished piece. Almost nobody shows the part where it went wrong.
So I built something for that gap. Read the rest here 👇
A furniture maker’s confession — and the launch of a new woodworking project site
