Today’s Woodworker
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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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Caril Chasens: Carvings and Collages
Caril Chasens lives “way up a bush road,” in British Columbia, Canada.
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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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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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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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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.
