Today’s Woodworker
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Tom Schrunk: Luster, Light – and Preserving Finish
Tom Schrunk makes things lustrous with wood and other materials – and he’s invented a way to keep his finish fresh for a longer time.
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Valerie Hibbard: Art from Wood (and Other Objects)
Valerie Hibbard brings her past experience — including 30 years as a fiber artist — to bear as an artist working in large-scale sculptures made from wood and other materials.
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Stephan Willner: A Roving Shop Teacher
Stephan Willner has a day job teaching shop at a public school … and a side gig, teaching woodworking on a bus.
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Rachel Fuld: Shape, Form and Milk Paint
Rachel Fuld enjoys the process of shaping items, plus playing with the contrast of bare wood accents and surfaces finished with milk paint.
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Todd McClure: Shuffleboard Tables are the Name of the Game
“I was more of a sales and marketing guy than a woodworker. My woodworking experience was building a wooden crate to ship the billiards table in,” he said.
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Brice Aarrestad: Furniture From and For Uganda
Over the course of Brice Aarrestad’s several trips to Uganda, he has been impressed with what the local carpenters were able to accomplish, “often with just a hacksaw,” he said.
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Judging a Piece at the Design in Wood Show
The piece I chose for the Woodworker’s Journal Award certainly displays excellent joinery in abundance.
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Tamas Fodor: Love for Wood, and the Outdoors
Tamas Fodor made his choice to be a professional woodworker early in life.
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Ralph Jensen: Heeding the Call to Make Bird Calls
Ralph Jensen claims to have been nothing but destructive the first 22 of his 65 years.
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Jerry Maxey: A Woodturner, and a Basket Weaver
All of the wood Jerry uses is found wood: he buys none of it, but acquires it from downed trees, construction sites, friends who have had to have trees cut down in their yards, etc.
