Joanna Werch Takes
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Meredith Nicole: Heirloom Furniture with Decorative Elements
The experience that “solidified in my mind that I wanted to go into woodworking” for Meredith Nicole was a tale she heard in France.
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Father’s Day Giveaway From WJ!
We’re taking a little break from our regular routine here at the Woodworker’s Journal Blog to shake things up a…
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Rob Jones: Carving From Lobsters to Bugles — That Play
A few years ago, Rob Jones might have been in the same boat as a coworker who came in and began talking about a tree that had come down in his yard and, when split for firewood, “looked just like ribbon candy.”
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Steve Baldwin: No Puzzle to the Appeal of Wooden Toys
Over 30 years after introducing the concept of mass producing wooden toys to the high school shop classes he was teaching, Steve Baldwin is still playing around with toys.
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Bruce Erdman: A Woodworker Once and Again
Bruce Erdman was once a professional woodworker — and now he is again.
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Don Green: Woodworking with Efficiency
Although Don Green’s father was a builder and he was “kind of exposed” to woodworking all along, when he went to college, he graduated with a degree in sculpture.
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Ted DeMers: Loving Making a Living in and from the Woods
About 20 years ago, Ted DeMers was diagnosed with a chronic illness that led to his leaving his job as a furniture company service manager and starting his own business as a woodworker.
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Jesse Hooker: Making a Record with Pieces of History
When Jesse Hooker was pursuing an acting career, he realized “it’s important to have a day job to fall back on.” And, since he had high school and college job experience working in wooden boat restoration shops, woodworking seemed a natural fit for the day job.
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Woodworking: 60 Years Ago
Here at Woodworker’s Journal, a staff birthday (no, it’s not Rob — as he will clearly tell you, his birthday is December 11. That’s De-cem-ber el-ev-enth.) has us looking to the past — 60 years ago, to be precise. What was happening in woodworking back in 1951?
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Caril Chasens: Carvings and Collages
Caril Chasens lives “way up a bush road,” in British Columbia, Canada.
