Today’s Woodworker
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Stephen Hatcher: Turning Natural Beauty
Stephen Hatcher’s creative woodturnings are so masterful, it seems impossible to believe that ten years ago, he didn’t even own a lathe.
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William Cumpiano: Crafting Great Guitars and Teaching Others to Do the Same
Since 1971, Bill Cumpiano has been building and repairing some of the finest handmade guitars and stringed instruments on the planet.
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Johanna Johanson: An Apropos Locale for an Enchanting Woodworker
Johanna Johanson’s beautiful work shows that she takes her own advice – to strive for excellence – to heart.
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Kim Kelzer: A Furniture (and Cake) Decorator Who Makes Colorful Waves
With fantastic carving, upholstery, and outrageous paint treatments, she makes whimsical furniture that can just as easily be called art.
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Cecil Ross: Bainbridge by Boat
At sixty-one, Cecil Ross has been a surfer, a sailor, a draftsman, a boat builder, a sculptor and a furniture maker, and has traveled the world doing so.
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American Sycamore Retreat: Where Woodworkers Become Guests
While it may sound like a luxury vacation spa, American Sycamore Retreat is actually an outstanding woodworking school, whose teachers include such luminaries as Frank Klausz, Andy Rae, Darryl Peart, Don Weber, and Dale Barnard, to name just a few.
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Jeff Hunt: Function Meets Form as East Meets West
Look through some of the stunning work in his online gallery and you will see a wide range of style influences, all expertly blended and executed into furniture that makes you say,”I wish I’d made that.”
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Alice Porembski: Where Contentment Meets Creativity
Single, twice divorced, and fifty-six, Alice Porembski is about the happiest and most contented furniture maker/designer I’ve interviewed, and also one of the best.
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Carol Reed: The Router Lady
Carol Reed, also known as “The Router Lady,” is a highly accomplished woodworker, teacher, and author who grew up in an era where, as she says, “women did not do that sort of thing.”
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Silas Kopf: Where Elegance Meets Art
Working with one employee in a Northampton, Massachusetts, atelier, Kopf produces exquisitely made furniture lavishly adorned with marquetry of such dazzling beauty that it takes your breath away.
