Michael Dresdner
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Johanna Johanson: An Apropos Locale for an Enchanting Woodworker
Johanna Johanson’s beautiful work shows that she takes her own advice – to strive for excellence – to heart.
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John Wilson: The Johnny Appleseed of Shaker Box Making
Like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, he travels the country sowing the seeds of Shaker box making, offering both knowledge and vital resources.
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Kim Kelzer: A Furniture (and Cake) Decorator Who Makes Colorful Waves
With fantastic carving, upholstery, and outrageous paint treatments, she makes whimsical furniture that can just as easily be called art.
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Zinsser: The Sultan of Shellac helps Polish its Image
His official title is “Brand Manager of Clear Finishes,” but around the office at Zinsser, Gene Hoyas is called “The Sultan of Shellac.”
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Cecil Ross: Bainbridge by Boat
At sixty-one, Cecil Ross has been a surfer, a sailor, a draftsman, a boat builder, a sculptor and a furniture maker, and has traveled the world doing so.
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GIRLGEAR: Rough, Tough, and…Pink?
These creatively designed tool belts are made to accomodate a women’s body.
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American Sycamore Retreat: Where Woodworkers Become Guests
While it may sound like a luxury vacation spa, American Sycamore Retreat is actually an outstanding woodworking school, whose teachers include such luminaries as Frank Klausz, Andy Rae, Darryl Peart, Don Weber, and Dale Barnard, to name just a few.
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Alice Porembski: Where Contentment Meets Creativity
Single, twice divorced, and fifty-six, Alice Porembski is about the happiest and most contented furniture maker/designer I’ve interviewed, and also one of the best.
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Jerrold Roger Beall: The Beall Tool Company
Jerrold Roger Beall, or J.R. to most who know him, is nothing if not eclectic. To know that at 71…
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Titebond III: Third Time’s the Charm
I suspect it is easier to find a needle in a haystack than to find a woodworker who does not use Titebond. After all, Titebond has been fulfilling our gluing needs since 1952.
