Today’s Woodworker
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Tsilik and Kuchukhidze: Simple Playthings
Two Georgian toymakers focus on creating simply delightful wooden playthings for children.
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Aaron Radelow: A Renaissance Man of the Furniture Crafts
Having mastered a wide array of woodworking styles at the ripe age of 36, Aaron Radelow never shies away from a project (no matter how eclectic or practical!)
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Don Weber: The Bodger of Paint Lick, Kentucky
This Welsh artisan offers a great history lesson on bodgers, woodturning, and his own woodworking history – throwing in some modern-day advice as well.
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Tom Jahns: Sticks and Stones
“Sticks and stones may break my bones,” goes the old playground chant, but in the hands of Tom Jahns, they become…
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Stephen Rosasco: A Conservation Restorer
The “Gilded Age,” a term coined by Mark Twain to describe the period from the 1870s to World War I,…
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John Hampton: Sleepless in Raymond
A lifelong learner, John Hampton fits more woodworking into a day than most people do in a month.
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Spirit Ayastigi: That Sinking Feeling
Spirit Ayastigi’s creation of unique, impressive wooden sinks is just one part of his life as an artist.
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Larry and Nancy Buechley: Partners Who Dovetail
Larry and Nancy Buechley have the sort of partnership that most of us think exists only in fiction. They share their lives, work, recreation, and design ideas.
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Tracking the Elusive Crown Guard: Its Origins, Purpose and Simple Assembly Instructions
To give us as complete a picture as possible, I contacted two of the people whose Internet postings started the whole discussion, and got them to share their reasons for making these fascinating guards, and their methods of creating them.
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Betty Scarpino: Wordsmith/Woodsmith
Betty Scarpino, a new contributing editor for the Woodworker’s Journal, is a lifelong woodturner with a knack for creating refreshingly unique pieces.