Today’s Woodworker
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Corwin Butterworth: Straddling the Art Forms as a Painter, Musician and Furniture Maker
Corwin Butterworth has a distinctive name: the memorable sort that would fit an artist, a musician, or even a furniture maker.
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Carole Rothman: Bowls on the Scroll Saw
When she first began woodworking in earnest, Carole Rothman used skills honed on the sewing machine to control the band saw — but it’s her scroll saw work that she hopes creates a new genre in woodworking.
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Alf Sharp: The Best of the Best
The recipient of the 2008 Cartouche Award from the Society of American Period Furnituremakers was Alfred Sharp.
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Woodworking Students Showcase Projects in AWFS Fresh Wood Competition
Now in its third biennial year with AWFS, this competition highlights outstanding construction and design achievements by students in high school and post-secondary woodworking programs in North America.
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Nathan Hunter: Iconic Images in Fine Furniture
Nathan Hunter certainly got an early introduction to woodworking, and eventually became a designer and builder of fine furniture.
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John Sterling: A Family Business, Shaped by a Family Tragedy
John Sterling started out working in his family’s beer distributorship, and ended up working in a woodworking business that has also become a family endeavor.
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Rich Soborowicz: Simplicity Via Subtle Complexity
“I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin,” Rich Soborowicz recounted when I asked him how he got into woodworking.
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William Thomas: Traditional Education, Traditional Excellence
The North Bennett Street School has a well-deserved reputation for both teaching woodworking excellence and for having a decidedly traditional slant.
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Joe Woodworker: Free Advice, 2000 Veneers and Weird Erasers
The man behind Veneer Supplies, a soup-to-nuts vendor of both veneer and the tools to handle it, is Joe Gorleski, Jr.
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Greg Novosad: Divine Design
There’s marquetry, which consists of pictures made of inlaid wood and veneers. Then there is trompe l’oeil, which adds the appearance of three dimensions to inlay in order to fool the eye.
