ESSENCE OF WOODWORK

Posted By admin on February 7, 2010

You know you’re a woodworker if/when:

1. Your dog doesn’t even flinch when you turn on the 10’ saw he is sleeping under.

2. You encourage your son to buy a 1900 house so you can spend the time with him completely rebuilding the house and using all your battery operated tools.

3. every article of clothing You own has glue on it.

4. Your spouse thinks your new 8 inch spiral head parallelogram jointer cost less than $400

5. Your parents/wife wont let you into the house until all the sawdust is off of you (and we all know thats never gonna happen).

6. You have a picture of your grandfathers workbench in your shop…or your grandfathers workbench.

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Posted By admin on February 6, 2010

These turned and carved hollow forms are made by Michael Foster from Springfield, Vermont.

Michael Foster was born and raised in Denver, Colorado.

Mike started woodworking soon after he graduated from dental school. He learned basic skills using the shop of a friend who got him interested.

More of his wood-turnings can be seen on his website:
Breezy Hill Turning

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Posted By admin on January 30, 2010

These modern sculptures from lime wood are carved by Gehard Demetz from Selva Di Val Gardena, Italy.

Some of the expressions to characterize his art:
Sick, cruel and amazingly beautiful.
Delightfully creepy!
Incredible intensity, depth and provocation of feeling.
Sad and so beautiful!

Sources:
Gehard Demetz
La Galleria Lawrence Rubin

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Posted By admin on January 24, 2010

These sculptures are carved by Michael Painter from Austrey, Warwickshire, England.

Michael Painter is one of Britain’s most experienced Master Carvers. He was elected as a member into the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

He has worked on Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Palace of Westminster and many National Trust buildings.
During 1997 Michael supervised a team of carvers to work on the fire damage at Windsor Castle. His work was acknowledged by Her Majesty the Queen with a personal letter of thanks and a specially commissioned medal.

Since January 2003 he is self employed.

More of his amazingly detailed carvings can be seen on his website
mikepainter.co.uk

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Posted By admin on January 23, 2010

This furniture , covered with high-quality marquetry , are made by Paul Schürch from Santa Barbara, California, United States.

When he was 15, he went to Switzerland, apprenticing to become a church-organ builder.
With this knowledge, Schürch went on to learn about boat-building in the United Kingdom and marquetry in Italy, ending up back in California as a furniture maker and teacher.

For many years now he has been teaching furniture making, veneer work and marquetry.
He is dedicated to the task of passing on the knowledge he has received from the many fine teachers and masters of the trades.

On his website – Schurch Woodwork – Yuo can see much more samples of  his beautiful marquetry.

And there You can purchase his DVD-s , books and tools for such work .

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