Today’s Woodworker
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Mary May: Embellishing a Career with Carving
Mary May is now a woodcarver in the traditional style – something that she didn’t realize was possible when she first encountered traditional woodcarvings on a study abroad trip to Europe.
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Avner Zabari: Work with Paint and Wood
Avner Zabari did not grow up as a woodworker during his childhood in Israel, it was in painting where he first practiced his artistic skills.
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Alice Suszynski: an Arts and Crafts Style
Over three decades ago, Alice Suszynski was trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life.
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Janel Jacobson: Netsuke Carvings and New Directions
Almost 10 years ago, the Woodworker’s Journal eZine profiled Minnesota netsuke carver Janel Jacobson; recently, we caught up with her again.
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Andy Pitts: Curved Work, Clients’ Trees
For Andy Pitts, woodworking is a second career. In his first career as a U.S. Navy officer, he was an engineer trained to operate both a nuclear reactor and surface ships.
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Scott Phillips: Launched Into Space Shuttle Models
Scott “Shuttleman” Phillips has worked on the U.S. space shuttle program for over 30 years, from first launch to last. What does this have to do with woodworking, you may wonder?
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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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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.
