Joanna Werch Takes
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Kevin Rodel: Design With History in Mind
Kevin Rodel started his career with a sociology degree but, a couple of years after college, “I was disenchanted with social work and rediscovered how much I really liked working with my hands.”
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Jessica Straus: A Whittler’s Work
While Jessica Straus feels that woodworking must have been somehow in her blood much of her own carving work comes from skills she taught herself.
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Will Tait: A Renaissance Man with CNC Relief Carving
“People keep telling me I’m a Renaissance man — I work with lots of mediums,” says Will Tait.
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Woodworking Around the House
Recently, in our Woodworker’s Journal eZine, WJ editor Rob Johnstone asked readers “which room of your home has received the most attention in your shop?” We received many missives from readers — and some of them sent pictures.
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Scott Wayland-Smith: A Spoonful of the American Dream
Scott and Gin Wayland-Smith are now the second generation to be building wooden spoons and other utensils in Montana.
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Laguna Tools Starts New Relationship With Rockler
In the first such agreement the 25-year-old California-based company has ever made in the U.S., Laguna has agreed to make its products available through Rockler’s retail outlets.
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Darren Dukes: Finding His Mojo in Cigar Box Guitars
Darren Dukes began building cigar box guitars as “kind of a fluke thing, really.”
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Tiny Screwdrivers, Handy Tools
I think, every time I use one of my tiny screwdrivers, “Wow, this is a really useful tool.”
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Malcolm Zander: From Zero Interest to 10 Years’ Worth of Turnings
When he retired about 10 years ago from a career as a biochemistry teacher, Malcolm Zander had “no knowledge of woodturning, and no interest in it.” That has changed.
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Joanna’s Toy Camera
I built this little camera a few years ago for visiting kids to play with. (A niece was really into the toy camera phase at the time.)
