Today’s Woodworker
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Stanley Saperstein: Walking Sticks with an Historic Bent
“This is like my little retirement hobby,” says Stan Saperstein of his carved walking sticks and canes.
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Rue Ann Flanders: Wood Sculptor (and Sanding Enthusiast)
Rue Ann Flanders says she knows it’s strange, but, “I really enjoy sanding wood.”
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Kimberly Winkle: From Ceramics to Wooden Forms – With Lines
Kimberly Winkle has always been interested in structural architecture, the way things fit together.
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Jeff Knox and Gerdine van Woudenberg: Canoes, Gnomes and a Little of Everything
From canoes to gnomes – and many things in between – Jeff Knox and Gerdine van Woudenberg have built a woodworking business, J.a.G Woodworking.
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Ray Jones: Thinking Inside the Box
Ray Jones’s focus these days is making boxes – over 10,000 in the last 25 years, according to his estimates. And not only does he make wooden boxes, he makes the “hardware” hinges from wood, too.
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Paul Schurch: A Taste for Marquetry
Paul Schürch’s woodworking career has been an eclectic one, incorporating stints of piano and organ building, housing construction and boat building, but for the past several years, he’s found his passion in the old art of marquetry.
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Nancy Romalov: Music Stands and More
In some ways, Nancy Romalov is a woodworker of dualities.
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Hector Patrucco: Carving Out Time in Retirement
Like many others, Hector Patrucco “retired and became a woodworker.” In his case, that meant retiring to Brazil, his wife’s country of origin, from a career as an architect designing medical facilities.
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Michael Bowen: Woodworking for the Birds
Michael Bowen used to work in housing construction – and, in a way, he still does.
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Laurie McKichan: Learning By Doing
Although she grew up “in a very crafty family” with a background in sewing, cross-stitch, tin punch and all kinds of Girl Scouts crafts, it wasn’t until she was grown up and trying to furnish an apartment that Laurie McKichan took up woodworking.
