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SAPFM Society of American Period Furniture Makers
Publications

An annual journal for the library.
A quarterly magazine for the bench.

Written by members. Edited toward standards. One in your mailbox each December; the other in your inbox every quarter.

American Period Furniture, 2024 cover
American Period Furniture Annual journal · 25 volumes · cover: 2024
Pins & Tales, Spring 2026 cover
Pins & Tales Quarterly magazine · 68 issues · cover: Spring 2026
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APF 2024 · Relationship Issues — Period Pie Crust Table · 10 pages

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Spring 2026 issue · 49 pages

American Period Furniture, 2024 cover
The annual journal · since 2001

American Period Furniture

The journal runs at least a hundred pages of original editorial each year — long-form articles on tools, techniques, design, and the history of the craft and its makers. Printed in the United States on durable gloss paper, intended to live on the bench shelf and be pulled down ten years later.

Edited by Robert W. Lang. Articles come from members — experienced makers, conservators, historians — who don't need to be experienced authors. The editor's standing offer is to make producing an article as easy as possible for someone with knowledge to share.

Twenty-five volumes and counting.

The quarterly magazine · in its twenty-fifth year

Pins & Tales

Where the 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. Published as a PDF in March, June, September, and December.

Member project write-ups. Technique pieces. Class notes. New-board introductions. Reporting from the regional chapters. The editorial team is always asking what you're working on.

Pins & Tales, Spring 2026 cover

Twenty-five volumes. Sixty-eight issues.

The magazine archive comes with membership. Back volumes of the journal are sold individually in the SAPFM store. The recent shelf:

American Period Furniture · annual journal

2001–2025 · 25 vols.
APF 2024
2024 · Marion Smith
APF 2023
2023 · Daniel Faia
APF 2022
2022 · Chuck Bender
APF 2021
2021 · David Lamb
APF 2020
2020 · Tony Kubalak

… plus 19 earlier volumes (2001–2019) and the 2025. Browse the journal index →

Pins & Tales · quarterly magazine

2008–2026 · 68 issues
P&T Spring 2026
Spring 2026 · Tennessee Valley River, Makers Challenge
P&T Winter 2025
Winter 2025 · 2026 Cartouche Recipient, line & berry inlay
P&T Fall 2025
Fall 2025 · journal preview, Art Deco jewelry cabinet
P&T Summer 2025
Summer 2025 · new school launched, inlay tools
P&T Spring 2025
Spring 2025 · annual conference, Makers Challenge

… 63 earlier issues, 2008–2024. Browse the magazine index →

How to read them

Both come with membership.

Members

The current annual journal is mailed to members each December. Pins & Tales arrives as a PDF in March, June, September, and December. The magazine back-archive — every issue since 2008 — lives in the Members Desktop. Back volumes of the journal are sold individually in the SAPFM store.

Not yet a member

The current Pins & Tales issue is a free download. Past volumes of the journal can be purchased individually. Membership is the way to receive both going forward and to reach the archive.

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Long-form once a year. The pulse four times a year.

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