ESSENCE OF WOODWORK

Posted By admin on August 30, 2010

You know you’re a woodworker if/when:

Baby Dragon by Cassie McLaughlin Wollen

1. You watch old movies just to check out the woodworking and furniture used in a movie.

2. You look forward to your spouse’s family reunion, as you know it’s on the family farm where you can go wood hunting while everyone else eats and carries on.

3. You can’t cut and burn firewood anymore without feeling guilty.

4. there are no logs in your firewood pile, just pails of offcuts no more than 3” long.

5. You go out to buy a small piece of to finish a project and come back with enough wood to start another.

6. You try to convince your spouse that the truckload of wood you just bought was a good buy since it was on sale.

7. You’re driving to work on Garbage day, and you drive slowly looking for any furniture you can rebuild/refinish.

8. the tables of your stationary power tools have a hand rubbed wax finish and your spouse’s vehicle has a spray on car wash wax ( I just realized this while redoing the garage for a woodshop).

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Posted By admin on August 27, 2010

These carved furniture pieces are made by Sabiha Mujtaba from Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Sabiha Mujtaba was born in Karachi, Pakistan but raised and educated in London, England.
She moved to Atlanta in 1981 and start her company “Chrysalis Woodworks” in 1986.
She has studied under several woodworking masters including Sam Maloof, James Krenov, Silas Kopf and Wendy Maruyama.

While adhering to the functional principles of furniture making, Sabiha’s primary focus is on the aesthetic relationship between rigid and flowing forms.
Her work is influenced by her South Asian heritage and by her love of nature and organic forms.

Artist statement:
“My approach to design is usually on an intuitive level, however, once it’s there, I allow it to gel without necessarily investigating its origins.
During this “waiting” period, some osmosis takes place, where this idea collects its own information and I enjoy that revelation process.”

More of Sabiha Mujtaba’s work can be seen on her website:  Chrysalis Woodworks
And here is an interview with her by highlandwoodworking.com

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Posted By admin on August 23, 2010

This furniture is made by Silas Kopf from Easthampton, Massachusetts, United States.

He was born in November 6, 1949, Warren, Pennsylvania.
Silas Kopf graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a degree in architecture.
He has been making furniture since 1973.
In 1974 to 1976 he was apprentice to Wendell Castle.
In 1988, he received a Craftsman’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts,
and used the opportunity to study traditional marquetry technique at the École Boulle, an institute of interior architecture and design, in Paris, France.
His work is in museums and private collections around the world.

“Kiss my Ass” by Silas Kopf

Some people collect books;  Kopf collects veneers, especially those from trees like ebony which are fast becoming rare.
He helped start the Good Wood Alliance, a group that supports managed forests where the number of trees harvested is balanced with the number nature can regenerate. “I would like to buy wood from certified forests where I know the ecosystem is respected,” he explains.

Artist statement:

“Furniture making is architecture on a smaller scale with a design problem to solve.”
“The most important part is the sense of continuity, the idea of being part of this kind of work that’s gone on for hundreds of years.”

More of his works can be seen on his website:
Silas Kopf Woodworking
And there You can purchase his book  “A Marquetry Odyssey” or DVD, which explores various master techniques that have been used to make marquetry decoration on the masterpieces of Western furniture.

“Silas Kopf ……..a day in marquetry” from  www.mefeedia.com

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Posted By admin on August 19, 2010

These carvings are done by Dyadyushkin Vladislav Y.  ( Дядюшкин Владислав ) from Krasnodar, Region of Krasnodar, Russian Federation.

He was born in 1974 in Georgia, where he graduated from high school.
Vladislav started professional wood carving in 1998.
For making icons Dyadyushkin Vladislav received blessing from His Eminence Bishop Vsekubanskogo and Krasnodar Isadora.

Artist statement, translated from his website:

“ Wood carving for me – a way to decorate household items.
In my opinion, the wood was and remains the most convenient and popular material, especially when You want to decorate Your home.
And in a hundred years carvings will not lose its appeal and not go out of style. ”

To see more of his work, please visit his online store :  www.carver7.ru

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Posted By admin on August 17, 2010

These sculptures are carved by Nikolai Bondar ( Николай Бондарь ) from Kiev, Ukraine.

Artist statement:

“ I started woodcarving, because it is a source of pleasure, not profit.
I do not remember when I begin to cut wood and I do not know when I will give up.”

Tree species which are used for these works are: maple, juniper and oak.

More of his works can be seen on:
www.rezbaderevo.ru

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