This collection of woodworking interviews and profiles of famous woodworkers including Sam Maloof, Roy Underhill, and James Krenov (and a some lesser known makers who deserve to be more famous) is chock-full of sage wisdom, valuable advice and helpful woodworking tips that will both teach and entertain. Presented as a mix of woodworking videos, articles and blog entries these visits inside the shops and minds of woodworking masters will both guide you in your woodworking and inspire you to get back out in the shop and in front of your bench.
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Richard Smith, a woodworker from New York. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? It was only 3 years ago [...]
My wife and I were walking through a Home Depot store about 20 years ago, when I noticed a small Makita tablesaw and mentioned that it would be fun to have a tool like that just to fool around [...]
Woodworker and designer Cristiane Martins has a thing for puzzles, and her journey to fine marquetry is a culmination of the pieces she has picked up along her path. Born in Belém do Pará, in the [...]
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Paola Jiménez, a mixed-media and resin artist from Arkansas. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? I have [...]
Make no illusions that Lupe Nielsen’s creative passions are filled with magic and a little bit of sawdust. As a woodworker and professional magic prop maker from the magic capital of the world, [...]
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Aspen Golann, an artist and furniture maker from Massachusetts. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? I [...]
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Peter Griffin, a furniture maker from Ohio. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? Woodworking for me was [...]
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Baboucarr Faal, a woodworker and philanthropist from Virginia. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? As [...]
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Char Miller-King, a woodshop educator from Georgia. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? I am a [...]
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Jess Crow, an epoxy/wood artist from Alaska. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? I entered the [...]
A look at Ken Richards’ life in woodworking. After six years as a draftsman at Boeing—his first job out of high school—Ken Richards had enough money put aside to buy five acres and a barn in [...]
We’re interviewing makers from all 50 states. Today we’re featuring Jenny Boles, a woodworker from Kentucky. How did you get started woodworking? Who were your mentors? I have always had a love [...]