Today’s Woodworker
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How James Van Etten Paved His Way to a Woodworking Career
Today, Jim Van Etten is a highly respected furniture designer and builder with a great following, critical acclaim and plenty of work for his four-man shop, Furniture by Design.
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Giles Gilson: Renegade Paint Junkie
Imagine how wood turning and sculpture might look if made by a renegade paint junkie from a flash hot rod shop and you’ll have a sense of what comes from the fertile mind and deft hands of Giles Gilson.
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Unwanted Juniper Trees Turn into Highly Desirable Furniture
Drive past Bruce McAllister’s shop in Mitchell, Oregon, and you will surely see one of his favorite pieces sitting out front; a 12-foot high rocking chair that weighs over half a ton.
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Ed Hill: Mosaics in Wood
At first glance, the surfaces of Ed Hill’s freeform sculpted vessels look like mosaics, but instead of using ceramic tiles, he crafts the self-supporting structures using thin slices of wood trapped in a matrix of tinted polyester resin.
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Layne Halliday: Small Wonders
For her very first venture in woodworking, Layne Halliday built an entire house, complete with exotic wood parquet floors and filled with furniture in a variety of styles.
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Tom Stockton: Squaring Up Wood in a Round Shop
“My first shop” Tom Stockton told me, “was a chicken coop.” It turns out he meant it quite literally.
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Alexander Eppler: Making Beautiful Music – and Instruments
At around the age of eleven, Alexander Eppler heard the kaval being played, fell in love with it, and learned to play it.
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Russ Filbeck: Wood and Water
If you looked in on Russ Filbeck at any point in his life, you’d find him dividing his time between water and wood.
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Tim Inman: Restoration Renaissance Man
Inman operates a full-service furniture restoration company along with his wife, Joyce. By rights, that should fill his time, but as it turns out, it only accounts for part of it.
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Carter Sio: Hello, Mr. Chips
Carter Jason Sio had both the right teachers and the innate skill to become a highly respected furniture designer and builder, but he chose a very different path.
