Uli Kirchler is a woodworker who creates telescopic wooden castles.
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As a woodworker he could have complete mastery over the product.
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The bride's father is a woodworker and furniture designer in Philadelphia.
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She was also the town supervisor of Wilmington and a skilled woodworker.
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The American artist trained as a woodworker and fresco painter and restorer.
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You need a wildly creative woodworker like Peter Brown to get it done.
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While Offerman is a skilled woodworker himself, Poehler's talents lie in other areas.
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In the end, Gopnik's woodworker starts to look more like a straw man.
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One participant, an artist and woodworker, donated a pair of paint-splattered Carhartt coveralls.
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Dear Heloise: I am a woodworker, and I reuse plastic containers in my workshop.
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Mr. Davis, 61, is a self-employed homebuilder, woodworker and luthier in Boxford, Mass.
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Kirralee Robinson is a self-taught woodworker who creates pieces like this sustainable hanging case.
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"In these times, I am a little bit worried," said Toru Matsuzaki, 71, a woodworker.
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The longtime woodworker wants to expand her studio space into a community — a family of artists.
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Vidzickis is a master woodworker who specializes in green wood (recently cut, as opposed to dried).
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According to Google's Doodle Blog, she was also a successful metalworker, musician, composer, woodworker, and painter.
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Michael, my husband, a skilled woodworker, imagined a child who could make things with his hands.
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Maccarone, 52, a self-employed antiques dealer and woodworker, possesses a deep commitment to the thunk.
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Ian Stewart — burly and bearded, the very model of a preservationist/woodworker — was waiting for me.
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You may not think of yourself as a woodworker, but the founders of Shaper can change that.
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But Ken had been a woodworker and contractor before going to grad school, and he was game.
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Ms. Poehler is the enthusiastic novice, while Mr. Offerman provides more staid counsel as an accomplished woodworker.
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A local woodworker handled one of the most significant changes — one dictated by the structure's strange history.
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While still in New York, Witt went out with a composer, a woodworker, and a hair stylist.
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A honey-colored maple chest, made in Coventry in 1749, is inscribed "A S," and researchers have concluded that the woodworker was almost undoubtedly Amos Stafford Jr. "No other woodworker with these initials is known to have worked in Rhode Island in 1749," Ms. Kane writes in the catalog.
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However, the Supreme Court consolidated the woodworker case with another case that would become widely recognized — Burwell v.
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A Minnesota woodworker devised a handcrafted Jenga set for his Etsy shop — and it's got a hilarious secret.
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For Daniel, a skillful woodworker, the seemingly insurmountable obstacle in his quest is his complete ignorance of computers.
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He was an amateur woodworker who was building himself a guitar and wanted to trade wine for woodworking tips.
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Paulo Venzon grew up in Southern Brazil making things: His father is a woodworker, his mother is a seamstress.
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When Mr. Donald was 18, he became a woodworker, a common skill in Jamaica at the time, he said.
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So I got a great Brooklyn woodworker guy to make the study of my dreams out of English Pine.
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Given my disparate professional pursuits (actor, humorist, woodworker), I don't get to read nearly as much as I would prefer.
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"My hope is that one day I'll be able to say, 'I'm a woodworker!' and not shock anybody," she says.
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Making It At his father's workshop in remote Vermont, a solitary woodworker preserves the craft of building an American symbol.
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The Asia room's four cantilevered desks, in Gabon palm wood and bronze, were made by the master woodworker Eugène Printz.
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In Stone's sculpture, the content, which often includes a joke, is mediated by his minimalist esthetic and skill as a woodworker.
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He wasn't a woodworker, but he was an artist and actor who would talk about his "craft" for hours on end.
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Dereyk Patterson, a woodworker from East Hampton, N.Y., created cabinets and the beams that wrap around a two-story stone fireplace.
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"I consider myself to be an artist when I'm doing artwork, and I'm a woodworker when I'm doing woodwork," Boak says.
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Through an e-commerce website like Etsy, an Appalachian woodworker can create custom pieces and sell them anywhere in the world.
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During the counterculture movement of the late 1960s and 18303s, Boak was a poet, artist, and woodworker who specialized in building instruments.
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"I know everybody, and they all know me," said Gary FitzGerald, a woodworker who has lived in the neighborhood for seven years.
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I suspect there would be a beauty in watching a skilled creator work in VR, much like in watching a woodworker or dancer.
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Frank Howarth, woodworker and father of the year, explains:We cut the pieces from ¼ inch birch plywood with an 1/8 inch router bit.
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For a second coffee table, they had a woodworker copy an antique piece, but at a smaller scale, and Mr. Occhipinti painted it.
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But Mr. Bloom, a woodworker and former professional clown, saw an unusual opportunity for a renter: the ability to completely remake a space.
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The show is hosted by Parks and Recreation stars Amy Poehler, who just likes crafts, and Nick Offerman, who is a woodworker himself.
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Her father, Henry, was a supermarket worker and woodworker who built bookcases and cabinets; her mother, the former Minnie Koffman, was a secretary.
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A Latvian woodworker named Rihards Vidzickis recently posted a mesmerizing video of a recent project: creating a dugout canoe from a single tree trunk.
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Nearing 50, he enlists his 81-year-old father, Thomas, a gifted and compulsive woodworker, to join him in designing and constructing a coffin.
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Among the numerous objects lost in the fire were all of Dave's tools, which he depends on for his job as a mechanic and woodworker.
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Everyone's favorite woodworker and guy that played Ron Swanson on Parks and Rec is stopping by "The Mashable Show" to drop some serious SXSW knowledge.
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He is the designer, woodworker, decorator of the themed karaoke rooms in back, and propmaster of the retro lounge that's dressed in David Lynch red.
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"With only one mother!" joked his younger brother Paul, who as Wyeth's principal woodworker builds many of the original pieces and oversees restoration of vintage finds.
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She is the daughter of Regina Luersen of Ossining, N.Y., and Jon D. Bellstrom of Townshend, Vt. The bride's father retired as a woodworker in Townshend.
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The original centered around the woodworker Geppetto (voiced by Christian Rub) who sees a falling star and wishes his puppet of a little boy, Pinocchio, to life.
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Mr. Bilaniuk's application claimed he worked as a self-employed woodworker in Piadyki and then as a farm laborer in Germany until the end of the war.
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When the actor and woodworker appeared on Tuesday's show, he brought along a handmade table meant specifically as a place for guests to place their coffee mugs.
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Makers & Brothers will host a furniture workshop at the Standard, East Village through Sunday with the woodworker James Carroll on site crafting stools from locally sourced timber ($285).
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By the Book The actor, woodworker, musician and author, most recently, of "Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom With America's Gutsiest Troublemakers" reads for solace during air turbulence.
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I am a sculptor, printmaker, and woodworker by trade, and co-run a mural and hand-painted signage business with fellow artist and designer Russell Bannan, a native son.
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The exterior is clad in cedar — salvaged by the local woodworker William Johnson, who oversaw the construction — and raw pine lines the interior, lending the space a honeyed glow.
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The tiny eatery, which is a fully functioning beehive, was handcrafted by a woodworker and has "room for thousands of important guests," a video of the product posted Tuesday says.
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A self-taught woodworker, he labored off and on for months as he turned a plain-looking, if old, secretary into a detailed piece rich with the patina of history.
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Under the guidance of an expert woodworker, each student learns how to shape a block of wood into usable utensils that are then packaged as a keepsake to take home.
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Minus a couple of caches donated to the tour, all of the GeoTour's 150 caches were created by Barker and Vanier with the help of their husbands and a local woodworker.
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The central family consists of a black mom (a screenwriter), a white dad (an artisanal woodworker), and their two kids from previous relationships: 15-year-old Suzette and 16-year-old Lionel.
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But his reputation as woodworker to New York's literary circle is at least somewhat coincidental: Roughly half of the people who contact him, like Chernow, find him by chance on the internet.
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The next year, Bob Pedersen — an Orange County transplant, antiques dealer, pastor, and woodworker — helped 42 committee members get elected, hoping to wrest control of the committee and push its agenda further right.
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It is fair to say that pretty much the entire job of a politician, unlike that of a woodworker or surgeon, is to talk, not to perform what might traditionally be called "action".
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Gary Hannaford, 57, an artist and a woodworker, said the question of what should be the proper role of government in society, and whether American freedom is at risk, was a real one.
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A plain cherry-wood money box dating from the mid-1700s segues to a glossy cedar-and-mahogany humidor, with intricate wenge inlay along the edges, made by Edward Pirnik-Mauriz, a Fairfield woodworker.
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When it comes to relaxation, you need all the help you can get, and surprisingly, watching this magnificently bearded woodworker turn a log into a perfect wooden bowl might actually help you unclench your fists.
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A few years ago, the writer Ron Chernow, in need of shelving for his New York City apartment, searched online for "Brooklyn bookcases" and stumbled on a website belonging to a woodworker named Edward Orloff.
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When they found the kitchen lacking storage and work space, they tracked down a local woodworker who made new cabinetry with reclaimed wood and distressed paint, so that it looked like it had always been there.
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Yeah, he's incredibly good-looking (he's a model), but he's also an actor (he only has a few credits to his name), a woodworker (see: his Instagram), a hockey coach, and a clothing and eyewear designer.
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Fabricated for me by other agents, they indicated that I was a colored man of reputable character, that I had recently purchased my freedom and was now to take up employment as a woodworker in Philadelphia.
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One iPhone case is much like the other unless it's made of figured walnut wood from a retired woodworker in California and feels like the surface of a finely-sanded and well-made piece of antique cabinetry.
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" WATCH THIS: The Hosts of Home Town Talk Fame, Family and What Makes Small Town America Great Woodworker Ben recently gave his wife's approach a try and, she writes, "it made a world of difference in that person's attitude.
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From Marseille, France, Galerie Polysémie will celebrate one of owner François Vertadier's favorite artists, the Russian Vasily Romanenkov (1953–2013), a woodworker who turned to making richly patterned compositions in colored pencil and ink depicting baptisms, weddings, and funerals.
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After that, it seemed to Mr. McGill, a 57-year-old woodworker, artist and general fixer-upper, that he would rather cut out what he refers to as "formal rent" — and the formal living arrangements that go with it.
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Many of the renovations, including the slate fireplace surround and slate bench seat in the living room, as well as the kitchen cabinets, were designed and built by one of the current owners, Steven Froman, an artist, woodworker and furniture maker.
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On a recent briny Tuesday afternoon near the Red Hook waterfront, Nick Offerman, the actor, woodworker, author, comedian, and enthusiastic husband of Megan Mullally, sat in a curved red banquette at Sunny's, a local bar once frequented by longshoremen and dockworkers.
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Moving from the Flemish region to what was then Western Germany, sculpture and woodworker Nikolaus Hagenauer (aka Nikolaus von Hagenau) is surrounded by perhaps the most solid historical evidence that Anthony was a symbol of ergot poisoning for Northern Renaissance artists.
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They recruited the French design firm Weekends (who recently relocated to Silver Lake) for the interiors, their next-door neighbor Lawson-Fenning for the restaurant's ethereal constellation of globe lights and the local woodworker M.F.E.O for custom tables and shelves.
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Still, a century later, the shared creativity that was at Omega's core animates Fort Makers, a decade-old Brooklyn design collective founded by the creative director Nana Spears, 42, the woodworker Noah James Spencer, 40, and the 36-year-old painter Naomi S. Clark.
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The aesthetics of the antique and modern examples are distinctly different; while a gracefully shaped writing chair and drop-leaf table from the late 1700s have a sturdy, utilitarian heft to them, two comparable pieces by Thomas Throop, a New Canaan woodworker, have an airy, ethereal quality.
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FT. $36,000 approximate annual rent 173 Hausman Street (between Nassau and Norman Avenues) Greenpoint, Brooklyn A woodworker/cabinetmaker has signed a five-year lease for 2,100 square feet, formerly occupied by another cabinetmaker, in this 70,000-square-foot single-story building in the industrial section of Greenpoint.
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Use This Four years ago, Michaele Simmering and Johann Pauwen, the co-founders of the Los Angeles-based furniture and homeware brand Kalon Studios, saw a set of 1940s dishes made by a woodworker and nurse named Mim Sihvonen who had studied at Black Mountain College.
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On a recent afternoon, it served up videos of a guy accidentally hitting himself in the head with a baseball bat; a pizza being made out of French fries; a dog bathing in a Jacuzzi; a woodworker crafting a salad bowl; a tourist riding a slide down the Great Wall of China and a manatee kissing a snorkeler.
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Try these gift ideas While reporting for a story a few months ago on what we can do to end our kids' cell phone addiction, I learned about "Be Present" boxes: small, wooden, carefully crafted boxes made by a woodworker in Austin, Texas, with simple directions about how to pack away your smartphone and be more in the moment with your family.
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Guests, still damp from the storm outside, warmed up on the first floor before wandering upstairs to find rooms filled, jewel-box-like, with unexpected pieces: a tropical, metallic chandelier by the Brooklyn-based artist Chris Wolston; an arcing, clean-lined floor lamp by the New York-based lighting designer Bec Brittain; and a collection of busts of African women, hand-carved by the Ghanaian woodworker Jacob Tetteh-Ashong.
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"An Eames Primer," by Eames Demetrios — an excellent portrait of the author's prolific artist/designer/freethinker grandparents, Charles and Ray Eames; "Scratching the Woodchuck," by David Kline — an Ohio farmer's delightful intimacy with the flora and fauna of his 120 acres; "The Nature and Art of Workmanship," by David Pye, an indispensable treatise on the importance of skill and workmanship in the manufacture of objects in this modern era of consumerism; "The Anarchist's Tool Chest," by Christopher Schwarz, an inspiring call to arms for the woodworker — encouraging the proper selection and mentality in the healthy use of vintage hand tools; and also rereading Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang" in my constant search for just the right book to adapt that has a healthy agenda of environmentalism contained within a ripping good story.
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His father was a woodworker who also made musical instruments.
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Her mother is a teacher and her father is a woodworker.
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Ashley Eriksmoen is a California-born Australia-based furniture maker, woodworker, artist, and educator.
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After some drying, the woodworker typically uses a piece of burlap to remove more excess.
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Fra Giovanni da Verona, Italian Olivetan monk, sculptor, architect, miniature painter and woodworker. (1457 - 1525) Fra Giovanni da Verona (c. 1457, Verona - 1525) was an Italian Olivetan monk, sculptor, architect, miniature painter and woodworker. He was active between the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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James Libero Prestini (January 13, 1908 – July 26, 1993) was an American sculptor, designer and woodworker.
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A Krenov-style wooden smoothing plane. James Krenov (October 31, 1920 – September 9, 2009) was a woodworker and studio furnituremaker.
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Paul Sellers (born 1950) is a British woodworker, writer and teacher. He was apprenticed as a woodworker in the UK in 1965 at the age of 15. He moved to the US in 1984 and quickly became noted for his ability in traditional woodworking. He has and continues to teach people the craft of woodworking.
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Nathan Wiens is a Canadian naturalistic designer and woodworker. Wiens founded Chapel Arts in the Railtown district of Vancouver in 2006.
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Celina is a woodworker and pyrographer, producing designs on wood, leather or other materials by using heated tools or a fine flame.
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Eric Bostrom, who owned the building into the 1920s, was a machinist; early tenants included a molder, woodworker, wallpaper hangers, and a musician.
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In 2010, the iconostas was replaced with icons from Russia attached to a screen carved by a parishioner who is also a master woodworker.
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The woodworker will often start planing across or diagonal to the grain ("traversing") to roughly level the workpiece before planing in the direction of the grain.
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Aside from his commercial appearances for Marlboro, McLean was the spokesperson for Great Western Savings & Loan in its television commercials. He was also an woodworker and artist.
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Tahtacı (meaning "woodworker"), are an Alevi Yörük ethnic subgroup living mainly in forestry areas of Aegean and Mediterranean regions of Turkey, and engage woodworking since Ottoman Empire.
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John Johnson, its first owner, was an absentee landlord who was also a woodworker. Typical early tenants were machinists, laborers, and wire workers of Finnish and Swedish extraction.
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Mira Nakashima-Yarnell (born 1942) is an architect and furniture maker. She is the daughter of George Nakashima and is now the President and Creative Director for George Nakashima, Woodworker.
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Hubert Horace Crawford (1910–1985) was an American painter originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He had many artistic talents. He played the violin. He also was a woodworker and designed furniture.
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Both also make an appearance in the song Make you pop by Don Diablo. Rinus has an intellectual disability. In his daily life, he is a woodworker in a social workshop.
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Frank Howarth is an architect and woodworker based in Portland, Oregon. He is known for his stop-motion videos that demonstrate his design and building process which he publishes on his YouTube channel.
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Midgley left the Army in 1945 and returned to Queensland, where he became a woodworker and furniture maker.Mick Fletoridis (2014) "Vale: Hamar Midgley" Fishing World. Published October 1, 2014. Accessed July 21, 2019.
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Methods that are not considered traditional joinery have come about in modern times, largely to attempt to simplify the job of the woodworker for various reasons. These include biscuit joints and pocket hole joinery.
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He was taken in by another uncle, Stanley Hesketh, who lived at 1912 Ford Boulevard. Lamb secured a job as a woodworker on his release and after starting work showed no signs of irregular conduct.
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The station's breakfast comedy show was for many years hosted by Bob Cooke and Richard Moore. The show started in 1982. Cooke retired in the late 1990s and became a hobbyist woodworker. Moore retired in 2013.
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Captain Blanchard was a master woodworker, creating dozens of fine ship models. Some of his models are in museum collections, including in the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine and the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
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In 2017, Panavista, Inc. won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards in the Best Historic/Cultural Program Feature/Segment category. The award was for Articulate’s segment, “A Place at the Table,” about woodworker George Nakashima’s daughter, Mira Nakashima.
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Robert Erickson (born Lincoln, Nebraska 1947) is an American furniture designer and woodworker in Nevada City, California. He is a studio maker, who custom designs chairs and other furniture. His work is in several U.S. national collections.
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In 2006 Broun was voted 'Professional Woodworker of the year 2005' by The Woodworker magazine. In 2007 Broun set up his own publishing company and launched The Revised Bespoke edition of his first book 'The Incredible Router'. In 2008 he was invited to become a freelance inspector for The British Accreditation Council for independent further and higher education. As a musician Jeremy plays the electro-acoustic guitars that he makes and can occasionally be heard busking on the streets of his home town Bath and has performed at the Bath Fringe Festival.
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Evon Streetman was born in 1932 in Fort Meade, Florida. From an early age, Streetman was surrounded by artistic people including her maternal grandmother, a painter, her paternal grandfather, a metalsmith and woodworker, as well as her father, a woodworker, taxidermist and craftsman. She studied painting at Florida State University where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Art in 1954 and began graduate work. "Her undergraduate and graduate studies at Florida State University were focused on painting and the traditional arts[...]," according to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.
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An accomplished woodworker, he took part in the 2001 Ireland/Newfoundland exhibition, Wood: A Sculptual Investigation. The Black Rod used in Senate of Canada ceremonies is one of his pieces.Government of Canada Randall Maggs. The Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
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Dennis Lawrence, a woodworker, developed a unique hinge for the ark. At completion, expenses totaled nearly $2 million. The building was dedicated in 1987. New York Attorney General Robert Abrams presided over the ceremony, attended by four hundred people.
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Robert Neil Cavally (February 24, 1906 - April 25, 1994) was an American flutist who trained and inspired many noted flute performers and teachers, and edited many solos and etudes for use by teachers. He was an eloquent writer and woodworker.
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Tavella is an Italian family surname. The Tavella surname originated from Neapolitan or Old Italian tavella ‘board’, ‘plank’, ‘slab’ (from Latin tabella), presumably a nickname for someone who was tall and thin, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a woodworker.
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The blade is sharpened to a chisel bevel. Traditionally, it is a rounded, smooth bevel. The handles can be below the level of the blade (as in the illustration) or at the same level.American Woodworker May–June 1990, No 14.
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"Making Planemaker's Floats", American Woodworker. #26, May/June 1992. 23. Print. which are traditional woodworking tools generally used when making a wooden plane. The float is used to cut, flatten, and smooth (or float) key areas of wood by abrasion.
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The woodworker frog (Limnodynastes lignarius) is a species of frog in the family Limnodynastidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, rocky areas, and caves.
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The house, built in 1917, was a nearly complete rebuild of an older (c. 1880) house. Its designer and owner was A. W. Merrill, a local woodworker and lumber yard owner. It is the only Prairie School-influenced house in Rogers.
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Joseph Savina, (1901–1983), was a Breton woodworker, cabinet maker and sculptor who was a member of the art movement Seiz Breur. He collaborated with Le Corbusier on several projects, and sought to revitalise Breton furniture design. He ran a workshop in Tréguier .
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Graham Smith (born 1947) is a photographer from Middlesbrough, England, who was particularly active in photographing Middlesbrough and the north-east of England in the 1970s and 1980s. Smith curtailed his career as a photographer in 1990, since when he has been a professional woodworker.
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ETA killed José Ignacio Iruretagoyena in Zarauz on January 9, 1998. He was a woodworker and Councillor of People's Party in the city of Zarauz. He was married, and he had two children. At the time of his murder, he was 35 years old.
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Classic Woodworking (previously Rough Cut: Woodworking with Tommy Mac and Rough Cut with Fine Woodworking) is a woodworking television show hosted by woodworker Tom McLaughlin that is produced by WGBH Boston in partnership with Fine Woodworking. The show is distributed by American Public Television.
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Garry Knox Bennett (born October 8, 1934 in Alameda, California) is an American woodworker, furniture maker, metalworker and artist, known for his whimsical, inventive and unconventional uses of materials and designs in his work. His long-established workshop and studio is in Oakland, California.
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The establishment of a Quaker school in the Sandy Spring community was first suggested by S. Brook Moore at a meeting for business of the Sandy Spring Friends Monthly Meeting in 1958."Quaker School Founder, Woodworker S. Brook Moore," Washington Post, p.B06 (Jul. 14, 2006).
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Cover of Wood Wood is a magazine catering to the home and hobby woodworker with more than 350,000 subscribers. It publishes seven regular issues annually (December/January, March, May, July, September, October, and November). It has the highest circulation of any woodworking magazine in the world.
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Manetti is also famous for his short story, The Fat Woodworker, which recounts a cruel practical joke devised by Brunelleschi. Manetti was further a member of the Arte di Por Santa Maria (also known as Arte della Seta), one of the seven Arti Maggiori guilds of Florence.
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Rosanne Somerson (born June 21, 1954) is an American-born woodworker, furniture designer/maker, educator, and current President of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). An artist connected with the early years of the Studio Furniture, her work and career have been influential to the field.
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Gordon, B., Sartorius, N., and Jurus, P. (2010). Emil Milan: The (re)-introduction of a seminal American woodworker. Woodwork, Winter 2010, PPP. 64-68. His legacy has been revived by an extensive biographical research project that has led to renewed interest in his life, work, and influence.
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The finest and rarest logs are sent to companies that produce veneer. The advantage to this practice is twofold. First, it provides the most financial gain to the owner of the log. Secondly, and of more importance to the woodworker, it greatly expands the amount of usable wood.
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Evert Sodergren (July 19, 1920 – June 8, 2013) was a leading studio furniture maker based in Seattle. He taught for many years in the School of Art at the University of Washington. Evert Sodergren was born and raised in Seattle. He is a fourth generation woodworker in his family.
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The pen or pencil is used when the woodworker does not wish the surface to be marred. Generally speaking, the pin and knife yield more accurate marking than do the pen or pencil. It is also used to mark parallel lines to the face side and edge side.
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In addition to the record label, McPherson works as a cabinet-maker and woodworker in Tuscaloosa. He is involved in various music projects including the band Rattler and has a solo project he is working on. The rest of the band members are also involved in various bands.
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Tage Frid (30 May 1915 – 4 May 2004) was a Danish-born woodworker, educator and author who influenced the development of the studio furniture movement in the United States. His design work was often in the Danish-modern style, best known for his three legged stool and his publications.
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The Dorchester County Historical Society owns the La Grange Plantation and operates it as an open museum of local history. The different buildings include the 1760 period furnished Meredith House, exhibits on local history, agriculture, domestic life, antique transportation vehicles, and tools used by a woodworker, wheelwright and blacksmith.
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It is common for a woodworker to make a matching pair for the purpose, and contrasting colors of woods improve the discernability of differences in height and level between the two sticks as they are compared. One winding stick is placed on one end of the piece and the second winding stick is placed on the other end, parallel to the first. The woodworker then stands back a short distance and sights across the top of the two sticks. If the surface on which the sticks are sitting is flat (in the same plane), the top edges of the two sticks line up perfectly with each other; otherwise, the discrepancy becomes apparent.
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His final appointment was Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1986. Hallifax retired from the navy in 1987. He was a keen yachtsman, competing in the 1971 Admirals Cup aboard the 'Prospect of Whitby'. He was a skilled woodworker, with a particular interest in fine reproduction furniture.
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From beneath mud flows dating back to about 1700, archaeologists have recovered timbers and planks. They are studying household arrangements from the distant past. In the part of one house where a woodworker lived, tools were found and also tools in all stages of manufacture. There were even wood chips.
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Refsal was born and raised on a farm near Hoffman, Minnesota, which was homesteaded by his Norwegian-immigrant grandparents. He began working in wood as a young boy. His father, a carpenter and farmer, and a woodworker uncle who lived nearby kept him well supplied with wood, tools, and encouragement.
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A traditional cabinetmakers shop might have many, perhaps hundreds, of moulding planes for the full range of work to be performed. The late nineteenth century brought modern types which were all-metal affairs such as the American Stanley No. 55 Universal PlaneBernard E. Jones, edit.:"The Complete Woodworker". page 243.
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David J. Marks is a woodworker living in Santa Rosa, California. Marks studied art at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California. In 1981, he opened a studio in Santa Rosa with his cat Liz and his young daughter . Through the 1980s, his focus was on one-of-a-kind furniture.
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Press, 1924, p. 288, 455, online on babel.hathitrust.org. At some point it was misidentified as Dalbergia frutescens, a misidentification which can still be found in books aimed at the woodworker. For some decades it has been known to be yielded by Dalbergia decipularis, a species restricted to a small area in Western-Brazil.
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HML Guitars was founded in 1994 by Howard Leese. As a woodworker and luthier, he participated in all aspects of construction as well as quality control. HML guitars were totally hand-built in Seattle by luthier Jack Pimentel. Pimentel has continued to build hand-crafted custom guitars under his own brand JP Guitars.
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Onésime Dorval (3 August 1845 – 10 December 1932) was the first certified teacher in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. She was a "talented painter and innovative woodworker", and became the "best known and most respected French-language teacher" in settlements throughout the northern plains of Saskatchewan. She was a pioneer in bilingual education.
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Cunningham Piano Company began manufacturing acoustic upright and grand pianos in 1891. The founder, Patrick J. Cunningham, had recently emigrated from Ireland. He was a well trained craftsman and woodworker. Within their first decade of manufacturing, Cunningham Piano Company had gained recognition and had become one of Philadelphia's most respected makers of pianos.
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Velzy was born on September 23, 1927 in Oakland, California. He had Dutch ancestry and his family was involved in wood-working, cabinetmaking or logging. His father was a woodworker and part-time life guard. Velzy began surfing as a boy and he and his father shaped boards with his grandfathers' woodworking tools.
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He also appeared briefly in chapter 28 ('Moving Day') of By the Shores of Silver Lake. Almanzo was characterized as a quietly courageous, hardworking man who loved horses and farming. He was also an accomplished carpenter and woodworker. Farmer Boy recounts events of Wilder's childhood starting when he was eight years old, in 1866.
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He also played non-league football for Runcorn and Ashton United before returning to Macclesfield for a final spell in 1979. Outside football, Lyon was a woodworker and in later years worked in the family dry-cleaning business. He also coached at local youth level. Lyon died in December 2019 at the age of 71.
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The Chinese Room was inspired by visits to Brighton Pavilion in the 1830s by Marianne, Lady Clifford- Constable and her sister Eliza. The woodworker Thomas Brooks carved the gilded dragons. Marianne designed the dragon chair, which was carved in 1841 by Thomas Wilkinson Wallis while still serving his apprenticeship with Thomas Ward of Hull.
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Maslany was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Dan, a woodworker, and Renate, a translator. She has two younger brothers, including fellow actor Daniel Maslany. She has Austrian, German, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian ancestry. For elementary school, Maslany was in French immersion, and was taught in German by her mother before learning English.
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Olsen currently lives in Alpine, Utah. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and his wife, Sandy, are the parents of seven children. Olsen is a skilled woodworker and has made hundreds of custom canes, including canes made for prominent Utah leaders such as Gordon B. Hinckley and Mike Leavitt.
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Smith curtailed his career as a photographer in 1990, since when he has been a professional woodworker. His writing has appeared in Granta. Smith's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).MoMA and V&A;: notice of Three from Britain exhibition, Artnet.com.
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The house was built in 1888 by Harley Green, a local woodworker, during Bear's brief boom period as a gold and silver mining town. Of more than fifty houses estimated to have been built by him, it is one of only four to survive. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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Characteristic thin dark reddish brown glue joints laminating the plies together of this exterior grade plywood Resorcinol glue, also known as resorcinol-formaldehyde, is an adhesive combination of resin and hardener that withstands long-term water immersion and has high resistance to ultraviolet light.Johnson, W. Curtis (September-October 1993). "American Woodworker". New Track Media. p. 30.
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As a result, each section has its own staircase, one of them fashioned with Second Period (mid-18th century) turned woodwork. The house underwent restoration in 1780 by a skilled local woodworker, who documented many of its First Period features, and retained portions of original decorations. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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In 1986 Sainty also began to venture into furniture design. She collaborated with Brain Heighton, a woodworker who aided her in making her designs functional. She had designed her first piece seven years before but never previously set aside time to pursue it seriously. In 2002, she designed costumes for the play The World's Wife by Miranda Harcourt.
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Schoenhut dolls were wooden dolls produced by the Schoenhut Piano Company between 1903 and 1935. The company, founded by woodworker Albert Schoenhut, initially made toy pianos. They began to produce figurines in the early 1900s, including wooden circus-themed sets and animals. The company introduced the Schoenhut Art Doll in 1911, a spring-jointed doll made entirely of wood.
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Ayotte Drums was founded by Ray Ayotte, who began his career in the music and percussion business in 1966. Ayotte began selling drums in 1972. The Ayotte Drums company was founded as a collaboration between Ray Ayotte, his brother George, and Odyssey Guitars' woodworker Attila Balogh, who was in charge of research and development.Janna hanson, (1989).
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She has always loved artwork since her highschool years. Kathleen's artwork sometimes symbolizes an event or spirit, other times it is just what comes out of the shape of the wood. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Metalsmithing, but she doesn't consider herself a metalsmith, but more of a woodworker. Kathleen Carlo, Athabascan artist.
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Roy Underhill (born December 22, 1950)Woodworker's Journal, "Roy Underhill: A Quarter Century of Subversive Woodworking". Retrieved January 7, 2014 is an American woodworker and television show host. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., he was the first master housewright at the Colonial Williamsburg reconstruction. Since 1979, he has been the host of the PBS series The Woodwright's Shop.
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The company was founded in 1933 as the Bear Products Company in Detroit by Fred Bear and Charles Piper.Bear Archery Turns 80 . Arrow Trade Magazine The initial focus was on silk-screening and advertising support work for automotive companies. In 1938 Fred Bear hired Nels Grumley, a woodworker and bowyer, and the company expanded to offer hand-made bows.
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Jennie Alexander (December 8, 1930 – July 12, 2018) was an American woodworker considered a pioneer in the woodworking world, "Instrumental in designing the now iconic two-slat post-and-rung shaving chair,". She also coined the term "greenwoodworking" as a single word in her book, Make a Chair from a Tree: An Introduction to Working Green Wood.
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Overhead view of the typical vise positions for a right-handed woodworker. Left-handers sometimes find a reversed layout more comfortable.Long ago, just as today, woodworkers required a more helpful way to keep the wood in place while it was being worked. A device was needed that could be used effectively on different sizes of wood.
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His father was a woodworker. He began to study art at a very early age, possibly with Antoine Watteau, or at least some of his close associates.Brief biography @ the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. When he was ten or eleven, his paintings were deemed such perfect copies of Watteau's style that Cardinal Fleury presented some to King Louis XV, who granted Quillard a pension.
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Ariele Alasko is a designer and woodworker from New York City. Her early work consists of furniture and art from re-purposed wood arranged in patterns. She gained popularity on Instagram with a curated feed of cutting boards, handmade spoons, her Brooklyn studio, and her dog. In 2015, Alasko had 370,000 followers on Instagram, and by 2016 it was 418,000 followers.
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Camel hair is also less effective at working into corners or to a line because of the poorer point (or edge) on the tip.Bernard E. Jones (ed), The Practical Woodworker: Volume 4, Decorative Woodwork, p. 1509,F+W Media 2014 . The brushes barbers use to remove the loose hairs from the back of the customer's neck can be camel hair.
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The marking implement is chosen depending upon the operation to be performed. Some marking gauges have the capability to allow a number of implements to be fitted, others do not; and a woodworker will often have a number of different types. A steel pin is used when scribing with the grain. A steel knife is used when scribing across the grain.
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Annibale's altarpiece was probably already complete at the time while Caravaggio was paid on 10 November 1601 for his work.William Breazeale: «Un gran soggetto ma non ideale»: Caravaggio and Bellori’s legacy, Kunsttexte.de. 1/2001, p. 1 The paintings were finally installed in the chapel by a woodworker named Bartolomeo in May 1605, and the chapel was consecrated on 11 November 1606.
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Cook, an expert woodworker, made all furniture. Towels, linens, and various household items were monogrammed "EMN", using the three women's initials. In 1927, Cook helped start Val-Kill Industries, whose daily operations she would manage until the business closed in 1936. Thrilled with FDR's victory, Cook and Dickerman found it difficult to understand Eleanor's anxiety over her role as first lady.
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Title pun: Pinocchio Simpsons episode: "Itchy & Scratchy Land" Synopsis: Scratchy, a woodworker, has just finished making a wooden puppet that looks just like Itchy. Scratchy tells the wooden doll (Pinnitchy-o) not to lie. Pinnitchy-o promises that he will never hurt Scratchy. Immediately afterwards, however, Pinnitchy-o's wooden nose grows several feet, its razor- sharp point impaling Scratchy's head.
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In 2011, Greiner started Greiner&Kilmer; with local drummer and woodworker Kaleb Kilmer. On October 25, 2011, the Christian hardcore band, Life in Your Way released their fifth studio album, Kingdoms, which Greiner produced the drums. The album also features Greiner's fellow ABR member, Jake Luhrs. On May 13, 2013, the Metalcore band, Texas in July released their self titled album.
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Giuliano da Sangallo (né Giuliano Giamberti) was born c. 1445 in Florence. His father, Francesco Giamberti, was a woodworker and an architect who worked closely with Cosimo de' Medici. This proved to be helpful to Giuliano and his brother, Antonio, later in life as it helped them to develop a close working relationship and friendship with Cosimo's grandson, Lorenzo de' Medici.
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Arthur Espenet Carpenter (January 20, 1920 – May 25, 2006)Oral history interview with Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 2001 June 20-2001 September 4Art Espenet Carpenter, 86, Who Made Sleek and Distinctive Furniture, Dies was a master woodworker and furniture makerArt Carpenter: 1920-2006 Self-taught woodworker and influential West Coast furniture maker dies at 86 by Matt Berger June 2, 2006 Fine WoodworkingSACRAMENTO BEE: MASTER OF THE GUILD Sacramento Bee - Oct 17, 1987Philadelphia Inquirer - December 26, 1985 - C06 FEATURES PEOPLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT; INFLUENTIAL WORKERS IN WOOD AT SNYDERMAN known for his wishbone chair and desk with scalloped seashell sides. Self- taught, he joined the Baulines Craft Guild. He also taught had apprentices. His work is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Arts and Design in New York. He was declared a “living California treasure” in 1984.
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Daniel Maslany was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, son of Dan, a woodworker, and Renate, a French/English translator. His older sister, Tatiana, is an actress, and his younger brother, Michael is an animator."Daniel Maslany met with autism specialist to craft Impulse character". The Globe and Mail, Victoria Ahearn, Toronto, The Globe and Mail, October 21, 2019 He has Austrian, German, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian ancestry.
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John Williamson was born on June 23, 1903 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of a marine engineer who was severely injured in an accident at sea shortly after his child was born. A woodworker and shipbuilder by trade, Williamson only had 8 years of formal education, later attending high school at night. He came to the United States in July 1913, settling in Seattle.
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His land. The book then goes on to describe life in different types of work camps. The story follows Paul as he works at a general store owned by Luke Sawyer, and as a woodworker in a small town called Vicksburg. Eventually, Paul and Mitchell meet a man by the name of Filmore Granger and make a deal to work for the possession of 40 acres.
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Greg Solano was born November 15, 1963 in Santa Fe, NM. Greg Solano married Antoinette Solano on May 19, 1984, they have two children and six grandchildren. Antoinette is a former employee of the State of New Mexico. Antoinette and Greg now work together in the Self Storage industry. Greg Solano is also a prolific woodworker using CNC, Wood Turning, and traditional furniture making in his art .
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Ross was an accomplished painter, who twice had pictures accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and sold both. He was also a keen angler, woodworker and sailor. On the death of his father in 1980, Ross became second baronet. He died suddenly at his former hospital in Southampton on 18 February 2003 after initially successful treatment for a dissecting aneurysm of the aortic arch.
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Stone hoods that sit flush with the exterior wall decorate the tops of the rectangular windows. The light pink brick structure rests on a stone foundation that has subsequently been covered with cement. Joachim Plambeck, who was the first occupant of this house, was a German immigrant and worked as a woodworker. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.
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Bo Bartlett was born James William Bartlett III on December 29, 1955 in Columbus, Georgia. Bartlett’s parents, Opal and Bill Bartlett (James William Bartlett Jr.), were from Columbus. His father was a woodworker and furniture designer, and his mother was a medical librarian. At the age of 18 he traveled to Florence, Italy where he studied mural painting under the American expatriate, Ben Long.
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An alternative theory is that Stradivari started out as a woodworker: the house he lived in from 1667 to 1680 was owned by Francesco Pescaroli, a woodcarver and inlayer. Stradivari may even have been employed to decorate some of Amati's instruments, without being a true apprentice. This theory is supported by some of Stradivari's later violins, which have elaborate decorations and purfling.Faber (2006), p.
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He became a woodworker and metalworker, practiced surveying, and in 1828 headed up a machine-shop in Fall River. In 1830 Bordon invented a new apparatus for accurately measuring the base line for the upcoming Massachusetts' Trigonometrical Survey. It was 50 feet long, enclosed in a tube, and used with four compound microscopes. The tube and microscopes were mounted on trestles, and adjustable to any direction.
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Born in Březové Hory in Central Bohemia, Hermína Týrlová learned puppet-making skills from her father, who was a woodworker and made small wood figurines. As a teenager, she moved to Prague to make a living acting, singing, and dancing in vaudeville. She also began writing and illustrating children's magazines. In 1925, she joined Studio AB, where she met her future husband, Karel Dodal.
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Augustin Perrault (May 16, 1779 - August 27, 1859) was a woodworker, merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented York in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1820 to 1824. He was born in Saint-François, the son of Jean-Jacques Perrault and Louise Saint-Onge, and established himself in business in Montreal. Perrault served as lieutenant in the militia during the War of 1812.
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From 1935 to 1936 he had part-time jobs as a dishwasher at Stearns Hotel and as a woodworker for Carrom Manufacturing Company and Thompson Cabinet Company, both in Ludington. During this time he took correspondence school courses to learn refrigeration. Conrad's first career job was in 1937. During this time Conrad worked full- time as a refrigeration service repairman in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Lyle Stuart Kristiansen (born 9 May 1939 in Vancouver, British Columbia, died 18 June 2015) was a New Democratic Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an executive secretary, financial secretary and woodworker by career. His first two attempts at a House of Commons seat from British Columbia were unsuccessful. He first campaigned federally in the 1965 federal election at Vancouver Centre electoral district.
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Hans Gasser (2 October 1817 – 24 April 1868) was a painter and sculptor from Austria. Gasser was born in Eisentratten, Krems, Carinthia as the son of the woodworker Jakob Gasser and the younger brother of Joseph Gasser von Valhorn. He was the pupil of Carl Gsellhofer, and became an academy lecturer where he taught Edmund von Hellmer and Carl Schild. He was the father of the sculptor Jakob Nudera.
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A poor peasant and his wife did not even have a cow. They had a woodworker make them a calf of wood and brought it to the pasture. When the cowherd returned without it, they found it had been stolen and took him to court for his carelessness, and the judge made him give them a cow. They had nothing to feed it and so had to kill it.
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Season 1 Episode 9: Johnny Comes Marchin' Home Exile bad boy Johnny returns as a master builder. Young Texan Adam brings a lot of confidence and attitude. Season 1 Episode 10: The Accident Seattle custom woodworker Chris attempts to transfer his knowledge of building with wood to building with metal. Season 1 Episode 11: The Diva Bike enthusiast and TV personality Kerry Casem attempts to build a custom chopper.
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Jacobsen Manufacturing was founded around the turn of the 20th century as a pattern-making shop by Knud Jacobsen, a Danish immigrant who came to Racine, Wisconsin, in 1891. A skilled woodworker, Jacobsen made patterns for automobiles, agricultural machines and electrical equipment. Jacobsen restructured his business as Thor Machine Works in 1917. In 1921 it released the 4-Acre mower, a gasoline-powered reel mower marketed through Jacobsen Manufacturing.
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The tympanum is not visible in any species, except in the woodworker frog, which is sometimes classed in a separate genus Megistolotis. All species construct a foam nest in which the eggs are laid. However, in south-eastern South Australia female striped marsh frog and spotted grass frog lack the flanges of skin on the hands that helps trap the air bubble and do not construct foam nests.
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Al and Barbara Garvey are an American artist and tango dancing couple known for catalyzing hot tub culture in California in 1966. While living in Fairfax in Marin County, California, the Garveys built their own hot tub in which they could soak with friends. The practice spread into a cultural phenomenon throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The Garveys are both artists, with Al known as a painter, screen printer and woodworker.
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In 1651, John Moore was ordained a deacon. He was made deputy governor of Connecticut under John Winthrop. Moore had one son named John Moore Jr, and four daughters: Elizabeth Moore (married to Nathaniel Loomis); Abagail Moore (married to Thomas Bissell); Mindwell Moore (married to Nathaniel Bissell); and Hannah Moore (married to John Drake Jr.). In addition to being a deacon, John Moore was also a successful woodworker.
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One source was an annual contribution of $1000 from a fund that Congress has voted for George Washington, but which the former president had set apart for educational purposes. The Choctaw Nation and later the Chickasaw Nation contributed two-thirds of the annual operating expenses, while the Methodist Board contributed one-third. Expenditures were held down because Rev. Carr, a skilled woodworker, performed all of the carpentry and cabinet work himself.
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In 1917, Elser worked half a year assisting in his father's business. Seeking independence, he started an apprenticeship as a lathe operator at the smelter in Königsbronn, but was forced to quit for health reasons. Between 1919 and 1922, he was apprenticed to master woodworker Robert Sapper in Königsbronn. After topping his class at Heidenheim Trade School, he worked in the furniture factory of Paul Rieder in Aalen.
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Shellac naturally dries to a high-gloss sheen. For applications where a flatter (less shiny) sheen is desired, products containing amorphous silica,American Woodworker: Tips for Using Shellac such as "Shellac Flat", may be added to the dissolved shellac. Shellac naturally contains a small amount of wax (3%–5% by volume), which comes from the lac bug. In some preparations, this wax is removed (the resulting product being called "dewaxed shellac").
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He organized his own design studio in 1929, situated in the rue Saint-André in Tréguier. His early works were mainly statuettes depicting fishermen and restoration work on the carvings in the city's cathedral. He later sought to modernize Celtic traditions, introducing Celtic knot patterns into his work. He joined the Breton nationalist art movement Seiz Breur, which was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, becoming its principal woodworker.
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The question whether Notke was first and foremost a painter, a woodworker or simply main organiser and entrepreneur is not clear. He was called "painter" by the city council of Lübeck in a document from 1467. He and his workshop produced art in the form of tapestries, wooden sculptures, and paintings. The main type of artwork produced by the workshop of Bernt Notke was altarpieces, incorporating both sculptures and painting.
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The moment he was there, he was happy and was able to train his beautiful singing voice and even took part in the musicals. He graduated in 1958, and went on to Hunter College for two years. He studied philosophy, psychology, and flunked English three times before dropping out. Before becoming a writer, he worked odd jobs including driving a cab, moving furniture, busboy, potter, woodworker, and door-to-door salesman.
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Szathmári was born in Gyula. His father – also called Sándor – studied law, later became a state official, and, besides his work, wrote lawbooks, in his leisure played the violin and painted. His father, the first intellectual in the family, and his ancestors spelled the family name with a y (Szathmáry). Szathmári's grandfather was a woodworker, who in his time gave 100 forints for the founding of a local music school.
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College of the Redwoods is one of 114 colleges in the California Community College system. The college offers a variety of transfer, vocational, and community-based classes, including its Fine Woodworking Program started by master woodworker James Krenov, a Police Academy, Nursing and Dental Programs, Truck Driving School, Computer Information Sciences, Computer-Aided Drafting, and Digital Media Departments, Yurok languageAtherton, Kelley. "Back from the Brink: Learning the Yurok Language". The Daily Triplicate.
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The George Blackman House is a historic house located at 904 S. Main St. in Hillsboro, Illinois. The house was built in 1842-43 by George Blackman, a local blacksmith and woodworker. Blackman designed his house in a style similar to Southern Creole cottages. Such houses had never before been built in Montgomery County, which historically preferred designs inspired by New England architecture, but Blackman's Southern-inspired features were more appropriate for the local climate.
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They were strong enough to be passed down over generations. A variety of trees produce burls, but almost all North American burl treen (upwards of ninety percent) is made from black ash. Another five percent is made from maple, with other woods such as cherry wood, white cedar, oak, and birch making up the remainder. Woodworker Michael Combs has speculated that black ash burl was favored because it is easy to work on a lathe.
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DL Skateboards is a nontraditional skateboard company based in Topanga Canyon, California, United States (US). Founded in 2011 by artist and skateboarding couple Derek Mabra and Lauren Andino, the original versions of the skateboards were created in their Brooklyn, NY apartment. Mabra, a former woodworker, shapes each solid oak skateboard by hand, and Andino does the painting. The artwork is inspired by the California surf scene of the 1960s, showcasing minimal, surfboard like designs.
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Brad Downey commissioned Aleš Župevc, also known as "Maxi," to create the statue as part of an exposition in Ljubljana. Župevc, an amateur woodworker employed as a pipelayer, carved the statue out of a poplar tree using a chainsaw. The statue was officially unveiled on July 5, 2019. Following the statue's unveiling, it was met with derision; an ITV report quoted local residents calling it "a disgrace" and comparing it to Smurfette.
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The history of Zaandam (formerly called Saenredam) and the surrounding Zaan River region (the Zaanstreek) is intimately tied to industry. In the Dutch Golden Age, Zaandam served as a large milling centre. Thousands of windmills powered saws that processed Scandinavian wood for the shipbuilding and paper industries. A statue that commemorates this industry was commissioned from sculptor Slavomir Miletić, and the statue, De houtwerker ("The Woodworker"), was installed on 20 June 2004.
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Numerous famous people have lived in the Waldstraßenviertel, many of whom were musicians. Examples are: Albin Ackermann-Teubner, Samuel Josef Agnon, August Bebel, Max Beckmann, Georg Bötticher, Hans Driesch, Bernard Katz, Heinrich August Marschner, Georg Trexler, Auguste Schmidt. Albert Lortzing composed his opera "The Tsar and the woodworker" in a garden house in the Funkenburg. Gustav Mahler lived from 1887–1888 in number 12 Gustav-Adolf-Straße and wrote hist first symphony there among others.
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Sellers seeks to provide inspiration and instruction for a diverse new generation of woodworkers, of all ages, both amateur and professional. Sellers has mentioned in various contexts that he considers himself an amateur in the sense that he does this for the love of the craft, it is more than a profession to him, it is his life style and his life. Indeed, on his blog, PaulSellers.com, and elsewhere he describes himself as "a lifestyle woodworker".
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Rod Zullo (born 1969, New Hope, Pennsylvania) is an American sculptor known for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. While growing up in Bucks County he was introduced to art through his Grandmother, a professional oil painter. He met notable creatives in the community including the author James Michener and famous woodworker George Nakishima.Southwest Art magazine, February 2009 Zullo studied art professionally at Montana State University, earning a degree in Studio Arts in 1994.
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An experienced woodworker can build one for about US$400 in 200 hours, though the exact cost and time depend on the builder's skill, the materials and the size and design. As a second kayak project, or for the serious builder with some woodworking expertise, a strip–built boat can be an impressive piece of work. Kits with pre-cut and milled wood strips are commercially available. Skin on frame boats are more traditional in design, materials, and construction.
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Charlotte "Schnackenberg" was born in Ottersberg, a short distance to the east of Bremen. She was the third child of the carpenter / woodworker Friedrich Schnackenberg and his wife Katharine. She grew up in the village, attending the village school between 1888 and 1896. She spent a year as a kindergarten assistant and then moved to the city and in 1898 entered domestic service, working for the Laßmann family at their home in Bremen-Schwachhausen till 1904.
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Three types of fishtail gouge on the left, compared with other gouge types In woodworking, a fishtail (also fishtail gouge or fishtail spade gouge) is a type of chisel with a flared blade that resembles the tail of a fish.Editors of Woodworker's Journal (2007). The Collins Complete Woodworker: A Detailed Guide to Design, Techniques, and Tools for the Beginner and Expert Harper Collins, They are used for light wood finishing, lettering, skimming, and modeling.Bridgewater, Alan Bridgewater, Gill (1998).
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Born in Newark, Ohio, Norris was the daughter of Edwin Oliver (or Earl) Norris (1876–1957) by his marriage to Lena Adelaide Loyd (1877–1945).Kathleen Norris Stark Caruso at findagrave.com, accessed 18 November 2017 Her father was a woodworker and cabinetmaker, and also a musician, playing the French horn and the viola in the Newark Symphony Orchestra. She had an older sister, Helen, who became a schoolteacher, and three older brothers, Carl, Donald, and Lowell Norris.
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The Alice in the song was restaurant-owner Alice May Brock (born c. 1941). In 1964, shortly after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Alice used $2,000 supplied by her mother to purchase a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where Alice and her husband, Ray Brock (c. 1928–1979), would live. Alice was a painter and designer, while Ray was an architect and woodworker who originally was from Virginia; the two had met while in Greenwich Village in 1962.
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The operator applies minimal, then most, then least force on the handles from centre toward the end grain. The work stock is reversed and same method repeated this time commencing a tiny distance away from centre so as to leave a coarse raised section. The coarse raised section where the two concave curves meet can be finished with a rasp, file, spokeshave or other tool.American Woodworker Dec 1995: No.49, New Track Media, , pp: 43–45.
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Enrico Rocca was son of Giuseppe, who is considered probably the most important maker of the 19th century; Enrico had a very hard life and he wasn't trained all the way by his father. The loss of his father at the age of 19 forced him to run away from his family. He ended up working as a boatman, a sailor, a ship carpenter (for many years) and a woodworker. He opened his workshop in 1878.
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He was born in Florence and is also known as the "Master of the Jarves Cassone".Master of the Cassone in the RKD Apollonio di Giovanni was recorded in Florence 1446 where he ran a workshop specialised in producing wedding chests known as cassoni and other such furniture. He died in 1465. Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso in the RKD He worked in partnership with the woodworker Marco del Buono Giamberti, whose son became Apollonio's pupil and heir.
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Since 2008, Sartorius has collaborated with woodworkers Phil Jurus and Barry Gordon on a research project focused on the life, work, and legacy of American master craftsman Emil Milan. Funded by a grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, the Emil Milan Research ProjectShaykett, 2011 (unpaginated). has resulted in an article in Woodwork magazineGordon, B., Sartorius, N., and Jurus, P. (2010). Emil Milan: The (re)-introduction of a seminal American woodworker. Woodwork, (Winter 2010) pp. 64-68.
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Leonard W. King, A History of Babylon, p. 72. At the Babylonian New Year's festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker and a goldsmith two images one of which "shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu".Pritchard ANET, 331, noted in Joines 1968:246 and note 8. At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered.
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Thouret's work was heavily influenced by the French Imperial and Renaissance styles, the work of Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, and Egyptian motifs that became popular in Europe with Napoleon's three-year Egyptian campaign. Isopi would simplify Thouret's plans, which were then carried out by the Biedermeier woodworker Johannes Klinckerfuß and court painter Jean Pernaux. As a result, the palace's Neoclassical architecture does not reflect a single style or correspond to any one designer.
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It continues to operate under the management of Moores and his partner Joan Barrett, selling boat building materials and hosting educational workshops. In 1983, Moores released Canoecraft, a how-to manual for home canoe builders, which has been called "the definitive guide to wood-strip canoe construction." In 2010, woodworker and actor Nick Offerman appeared in the video Fine Woodstrip Canoebuilding, a visual companion piece to Canoecraft. Other instructional books by Moores include Kayakcraft and Kayaks You Can Build.
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She had taught him how to read. He became a fervent reader and devoured every book he could find in the local library. He read at night, hiding under the bed cover with a flashlight, because his father, a woodworker, viewed reading books as "utterly useless" and "a waste of time". Although he did very well in school, he was refused admission into the Gymnasium (academic high school), and therefore was denied the chance to go to university.
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In 1948, Prip returned to the United States with his wife, Karen, and infant son, Peter. He came over on the same boat with a woodworker named Tage Frid, who was to become a lifelong colleague and friend. They had both been invited to teach at a new school in Alfred, New York, called the School for American Craftsmen. At the time, there were few places to study and limited knowledge of metalsmithing techniques in the United States.
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Köllnisches Gymnasium Erich Mielke was born in a tenement in Berlin-Wedding, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, on 28 December 1907. During the First World War, the neighborhood was known as "Red Wedding" due to many residents' Marxist militancy. In a handwritten biography written for the Soviet secret police, Mielke described his father as "a poor, uneducated woodworker," and said that his mother died in 1911. Both were, he said, members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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Stephen Paul (born May 1, 1951) is American woodworker and craft distiller from the state of Arizona. Paul founded furniture company Arroyo Design known for the production of fine mesquite furniture and has been featured in national and regional magazines including: Old House Interiors, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home and Phoenix Home and Garden. In 2006 Paul founded Hamilton Distillers Mondy, Dave, Edible Baja Arizona, Mesquite: Chairs to Cheers, December 2013 the largest Whiskey Distillery in Southern Arizona.
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Once out of the well, Hamad uses his magic ring to teleport them in front of the Sultan's son whom chauffeurs Hamda and Hamad to the Sultan's palace. Shortly after, the Sultan's son to propose to Hamda. The story ends with both siblings being offered a residence at the palace. The protagonist of Al-Sofra wal Qadah wal Mushaab is a woodworker who has a basic need for wood in order to earn a living and provide his family.
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Bumtsend was born on 11 September 1881 in Züünbürenhanuul Hoshuu, Tüsheet Khan Province (present day Yeröö district, Selenge Province). The son of a poor herding family, Bumtsend taught himself to read and write Mongolian script at age 13 and helped illiterate herdsmen in his area write petitions to the government. In his youth he worked as a woodworker and a cart driver at a horse relay station. During the Bogd Khanaate he worked as a laborer in Khüree (present day Ulaanbaatar).
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His creations and projects are spread among national collections as well as international ones. Major works of the artist was donated to chapel of Romanian People's Salvation Cross and to monastery 'Ciuflea' located in Chisinau.„Părintele” sfinților, newspaper "Ziarul național" In his career, the woodworker tried different techniques and traditions in art, including sculpture. One of his stone creations is a monument to the Soviet heroes, who have died during the World War II. The monument rises over the German town Templin.
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In sixth- century Babylon, a pair of bronze serpents flanked each of the four doorways of the temple of Esagila.Leonard W. King, A History of Babylon, p. 72. At the Babylonian New Year festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker and a goldsmith two images one of which "shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu".Pritchard ANET, 331, noted in Joines 1968:246 and note 8.
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An outrigger canoe would be constructed by a skilled woodworker (tufunga) of the family, on whose land was a suitable tree. The canoe builder would call on the assistance of the tufunga of other families. The ideal shape the canoe was that of the body of a whale (tafola), while some tufunga shaped the canoe to reflect the body of a bonito (atu). Before steel tools became available, the tufunga used shell and stone adzes, which were rapidly blunted when used.
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Heitor was born in the Rio de Janeiro, to Eduardo Alexandre dos Prazeres, woodworker and clarinetist in the National Guard band, and the seamstress Celestina Gonçalves Martins, living in the Cidade Nova (Praça Onze) neighborhood. He was known as Lino and had two older sisters, Acirema and Iraci. His father taught him to play the clarinet in various rhythms like polkas, waltzes, choros and marches, dying when he was seven. Dos Prazeres dropped out of school at the fourth grade and learned carpentry.
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Interview with the subject Interview with the subject Ceniceros and Siqueiros Ceniceros was born in a small village called El Salto, located in the municipality of Pueblo Nuevo in the Mexican state of Durango. His father was a woodworker who made toys and furniture in his workshop. His father's shop would become an influence in Ceniceros' life long interest in developing his own innovative working tools. When he was twelve the family moved to Monterrey to seek better economic opportunities.
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The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Compound is a historic residential complex located at 5131 Carnelian Street in Alta Loma, California. The complex includes the house and workshop of woodworker and furniture designer Sam Maloof, who designed the buildings himself. Maloof's house includes hand-carved redwood doors and windows, which Maloof gradually carved to replace the pre-made fixtures. Maloof also replaced many of the house's functional elements with his own creations, including door handles and surrounds, rafters, and even toilet seats.
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Additionally, they also have a greater variety of grain patterns and color and take a finish better which allows the woodworker to exercise a great deal of artistic liberty. Hardwoods can be cut more cleanly and leave less residue on sawblades and other woodworking tools. Cabinet/fixture makers employ the use of plywood and other man made panel products. Some furniture, such as the Windsor chair involve green woodworking, shaping with wood while it contains its natural moisture prior to drying.
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Paul R. Evans II (20 May 1931 - 7 March 1987) was an American born furniture designer, sculptor, and artist, who is famous for his contributions to American furniture design and the American craft Movement of the 1970s, and with his work with the influential American manufacturer Directional Furniture. His creation of metal sculpted furniture set him apart. He studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and later settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and shared a showroom with woodworker Phillip Lloyd Powell.
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Kruus was born on 22 October 1891 in Tartu,Jaan Toomla, Valitud ja Valitsenud: Eesti parlamentaarsete ja muude esinduskogude ning valitsuste isikkoosseis aastail 1917–1999 (National Library of Estonia, 1999), pp. 276. to Hans Kruus (1847–1929), a woodworker in a table factory, caretaker and housekeeper, and his wife Anu Matsi (1846–1929), the daughter of a tenant farmer.Rektor Hans Kruus (University of Tartu, 2017), pp. 8–9. In 1900, he moved with his family to a farm his father had purchased.
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A good holdfast works remarkably well, and is inexpensive and easy to install. The holdfast can also be used for clamping work to the side of the bench for jointing. If the legs on your base are not too far under the top, simply bore a hole in the side of the leg and use the holdfast horizontally. A woodworker can do just about anything they need on a bench with only a planing stop and a holdfast or two.
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Maurice William Prather (September 6, 1926 - January 9, 2001) was an American motion picture and still photographer and film director. He was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Maurice J. Prather, a mechanic, cabinet maker, and woodworker, and Zora M. Prather, both of them born in Missouri. Young Maurice Jr. also had a younger sister, Laura Jo, some two years his junior. The Prather family was living in Kansas City, Missouri, by 1930, where Maurice Jr.'s father found work at a local business called Greenwood's.
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These tambura did not use wire strings but rather gut strings pulled through little holes on the neck and tied behind. A woodworker, Josif, in Sremski Karlovci began to make Marko's tamburas but instead of the traditional pear shape, he made them into a shape of a tiny guitar. A bird catcher named Joza built a large tambura-much bigger than a guitar in 1877 or 1878. It stretched two thicker and two thinner strings on it and Joza called it the bas or berdon.
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Side chair by Lambert Hitchcock, 1826-1829 Lambert Hitchcock (May 28, 1795, Cheshire, Connecticut – 1852) was an American furniture manufacturer,David Lander "Last Seating: America's Best-Known Chair Is on the Brink of Extinction" American Heritage, Oct. 2006. famous for designing and mass- producing the Hitchcock chair. Hitchcock was the son of John Lee Hitchcock, an American Revolutionary War veteran who was lost at sea in 1811. He attended the Episcopal Academy of Cheshire, now known as Cheshire Academy, and was an apprentice to woodworker Silas Cheney.
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Tommy was often joined by regular helpers and occasionally episodes featured other woodworking experts. Several episodes with the title "Master Showcase" focused on a notable woodworker and their body of work. More recent episodes have featured Tommy traveling across the United States to collaborate with new experts, and learn more about the history of the craft. Following seven seasons, it was announced that WGBH had partnered with Fine Woodworking to bring an eighth season to television, now known as Rough Cut with Fine Woodworking.
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Scott's father, a skilled craftsman and woodworker, creates numerous pieces of craftsman style furniture for his son's new home. Instead of relishing the attention of living in the Boynton House and sharing with the public their restoration efforts, the McDonalds prefer their privacy, eschewing public tours and events. They give birth to a son and give him the middle name Wright. Although they love the Boynton House, they decide to move, putting it once more on the market, in the fall of 2009, for $830,000.
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However, from the beginning of September, after the outbreak of war with Poland, Elser was aware of the presence of air raid wardens and two "free-running dogs" in the building. While he worked at night in the Bürgerbräukeller, Elser built his device during the day. He purchased extra parts, including sound insulation, from local hardware stores and became friends with the local master woodworker, Brög, who allowed him use of his workshop. On the nights of 1–2 November, Elser installed the explosives in the pillar.
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The city of Milwaukee had ordered that the building be razed. The publicity caused several people to approach the owners about other purposes for the stable, including moving it to other locations. All of the ideas fell through and eventually furniture- maker and woodworker Mark Lien purchased the stable for one dollar. As of October 2012, he is dismantling the building and placing the wood in a nearby suburb, while he is looking for a suitable site to reconstruct the building for use as a woodworking shop.
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Robert Georgine (born July 18, 1932) is a retired labor union activist and leader in the United States, and the former president, chairman and chief executive officer of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company. Georgine was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1932 to Silvio and Rose (Hogue) Georgine. He married the former Mary Greener, and they had four children. With only had a high school diploma and some college education (he never graduated), Georgine became a woodworker operating lathes and other wood working machinery.
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Ao is said to have conquered the state of Ge for his father during the same year. He became regarded as a water deity through his supposed role as the inventor of ships, which he was said to be able to sail across land as well as water. He was killed by Xiang's son . Lu Ban, also known by his Cantonese name Lo Pan, was a woodworker at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period who became revered as the Chinese god of carpentry and masonry.
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The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974, and is now a house museum operated by Historic New England. The house Langdon had built resembles typical late Georgian houses, with five bays across, a center entry, and four rooms on each floor, flanking a grand central hall and stairway. It is built on a larger and grander scale than most houses, and has very high quality interior woodwork. The interior joinery is attributed to Ebenezer Clifford, a leading woodworker of the Portsmouth area.
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Woodworker Sam Maloof described their use in chairmaking: "Once I have roughed out the arm on the bandsaw, I use a Surform® (Stanley® model No. 295). This tool does about the same job as a spokeshave -- it can take off a lot of wood very quickly -- but I can use it without worrying about grain direction." Trimmed nails on an elephant's foot In farriery, surforms are used to remove excess hoof wall from a horse's hoof. They may also be used to "manicure elephants' hooves".
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A plywood or hardboard bench top has the advantage of being stable, relatively inexpensive, and in some ways it's easier to work with—particularly for a woodworker who doesn't yet have hand tools. The practical drawbacks of a plywood or composite bench top are that they don't hold their corners and edges well, and they can't be resurfaced with a plane—something that is needed from time to time. Workbenches are fairly forgiving in the choice of wood. Maple, cherry, mahogany, or pine rarely give problems.
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Morrow achieved great fame after winning his three gold medals, and was featured on the covers of Life and SPORT, as well as Sports Illustrated. He appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and Arthur Godfrey and His Friends, and addressed a joint session of the Texas legislature. Morrow's success on a national level continued after the Olympics, but he retired in 1958 to become a farmer and a woodworker. He made a short comeback before the 1960 Olympic Games, but failed to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team.
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The son of a lawyer and a schoolteacher, Duberstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there and in Connecticut. For many years thereafter he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and now resides mainly in Hancock, New Hampshire. In parallel with his career as a writer, Duberstein has been a woodworker and a principle in two custom remodeling concerns in the Boston/Cambridge area—Clark & Duberstein (with Sam Clark) and Squarehorse Builders (with Chris Gorton). With his companion-in-life Lee Brown, he has three daughters—a teacher, a graphic artist, and a lawyer.
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Her artwork has been published in 500 Tables, American Woodworker Magazine, and With Wakened Hands, a book on the students of James Krenov. She was awarded a Fuji Xerox Sustainable Art Award in 2014 Eriksmoen's piece Criogriff was featured in the exhibition Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking at the Center for Art in Wood in 2019. She was also interviewed for a book on the same topic by the show's curators Laura Mays and Deirdre Visser which is set to be released in 2020.
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Zanon was born in 14 December 1996 to an Italian father and a Thai mother and grew up in Val di Rabbi in Trentino. He started skiing at age 8 at the Madonna di Campiglio. He previously attempted to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia but failed leading to his retirement and worked as a woodworker with his father. However he came out of retirement when the Ski and Snowboard Association of Thailand on February 2017 offered him a chance to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics for the Southeast Asian nation.
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Thomas J. MacDonald (born June 18, 1966), known as Tommy Mac, is a U.S. carpenter and woodworker and former host of the public television series Rough Cut – Woodworking with Tommy Mac. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, MacDonald attended the Blue Hills Regional Vocational High School, but dropped out and did not complete his schooling; he later received a GED. He worked as a carpenter for 17 years, but was injured while doing construction work on the Big Dig project in Boston. He later attended the North Bennet Street School in Boston, where he learned woodworking.
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Melvin Charney (28 August 1935 – 17 September 2012) was a Canadian artist and architect. Charney's sculpture garden at the alt= Skyscraper, Waterfall, Brooks — A Construction He was born in 1935, and grew up in a working-class family in The Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal, the eldest of three sons of Hyman and Fanny Charney. Fanny was originally from what is now Belarus, and worked in a sewing factory. Hyman Charney was from Poland, and worked as a paint salesman as well as an accomplished woodworker and decorator, creating doors for synagogues and churches.
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In 1983, Brokenshire established New Zealand's first woodworking magazine, Touch Wood, which she owned and edited. She solicited articles from subscribers, but researched and wrote much of the content herself. In her editorials in the magazine, which was published three times a year, Brokenshire was a strong advocate for design, professionalism, and a national organisation for woodworkers. Brokenshaw sold Touch Wood in March 1988 after 14 issues, and the magazine was transformed by its new owner into The New Zealand Woodworker with a focus more on trade than craft.
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Re-creation of part of a gun shop from the 1850s (photo circa 2015) A gunsmith is a person who repairs, modifies, designs, or builds guns. The occupation differs from an armorer, who usually replaces only worn parts in standard firearms. Gunsmiths do modifications and changes to a firearm that may require a very high level of craftsmanship, requiring the skills of a top-level machinist, a very skilled woodworker, and even an engineer. Gunsmiths perform factory-level repairs and renovations to restore a well-used or deteriorated firearms to new condition.
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Huebel was born in Limbaži as the son of the fine art woodworker August Gotthilf Heubel (1760–1846) and his wife Juliane Marie, née Geywitz (d. 1831). He started painting at an early age, studying first for his father and later in Tartu and Riga. Heubel came to Riga in 1829 where he took lessons from the painter Georg Heinrich Büttner. Through the patronage of the Baltic German councillor in Riga, Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo, he was able to travel to Germany and Italy to study in Dresden, Düsseldorf and Rome.
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Retrieved September 8, 2017. she met, then married Ray Brock, a woodworker, shop teacher, and real estate flipper from Virginia who was in his mid-30s at the time, over a decade older than Alice. By 1964, they had found work together at the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with Ray working as a shop teacher and Alice as a librarian. With a loan from her mother, they purchased a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, which the couple converted into a residence for themselves and a gathering place for friends and like-minded bohemians.
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John Hemmings (also spelled Hemings) (1776 – 1833) was born into slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as a member of the large mixed-race Hemings family. He trained in the Monticello Joinery and became a highly skilled carpenter and woodworker, making furniture and crafting the fine woodwork of the interiors at Monticello and Poplar Forest. Hemmings also served as the master joiner to apprentices Beverley, Madison and Eston Hemings, Jefferson's sons by Sally Hemings. After decades of service, John Hemmings was freed in 1826 by Jefferson's will and given the tools to the joinery.
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Collett was born in Bramalea, Ontario, a Greater Toronto Area suburb. He began writing songs at a young age to escape the boredom of his suburban life, and cites Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and Nick Lowe as influences. Eventually, Collett moved to downtown Toronto where he worked as a woodworker and carpenter, doing renovations and custom home building, while he pursued his music. He was a part of the short-lived alternative country group Bird, of which Andrew Cash and Hawksley Workman were also members. Bird released one album, 2000’s Chrome Reflection.
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Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. a woodworker at the Cavalier Furniture Company,United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. Year: 1940; Census Place: Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee; Roll: T627_3951; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 96-9. and his wife, Ruby Bernice Woody Fairbanks (born August 30, 1916 in Alabama; died March 31, 1973 in Hialeah, Florida),Year: 1920; Census Place: Athens, Limestone, Alabama; Roll: T625_27; Page: 22A; Enumeration District: 98; Image: 922.
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Baburin was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, where his parents were studying at the time. His father, Nikolai Naumovich Baburin, was a teacher who came from a long line of Sibiryaks (natives of Siberia), and arrived to Semipalatinsk from Tara, Omsk Oblast where Sergey later spent his childhood. His paternal grandfather, Naum Mikheevich Baburin, was a woodworker who built houses; during the Russian Civil War he expressed support to the White Army and was nearly shot by Bolsheviks after they came to power. His paternal grandmother, Irina Sergeevna Baburina (née Koroleva), was a housewife.
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Sangallo was born Antonio Cordiani in Florence, the son of Bartolomeo Piccioni. His grandfather Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker, and his uncles Giuliano and Antonio da Sangallo were noted architects of the time. Vasari writes that the young Sangallo followed his uncles to Rome in order to pursue a career in architecture; he ended up taking the name ″Sangallo″ in their tracks. Instead of becoming an apprentice to an artist, as was the common path toward becoming an architect,Ackerman, James S. "Architectural Practice in the Italian Renaissance".
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The woodworker will usually have scribed a line on the end to indicate how far to trim the board. The hand plane is rested on its side on the fence and held firmly against the end of the board whilst being pushed along its length. Jointing is performed the same way except that the board is oriented so that one end is against the stop and the edge to be jointed faces the fence. One problem faced when using shooting boards repetitively is that the blade in the hand plane becomes worn very quickly in one spot.
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Miller attended Swarthmore College where she received the Beik Prize for The Troubles By Our Women: The Urban Male Perspective on Independent Women in Independent Nigeria in 2005. She went on to graduate with a degree in history. After college, she moved to Brooklyn, New York where an interest in sculpture led her to answer a craigslist ad from a woodworker who was seeking an assistant. She spent her hours at the wood shop listening to the radio, and toward the end of her year working there, she heard Radiolab, which was then a local show on WNYC.
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Several companies in Austria, Italy, France and Belgium manufacture what is commonly known in North America as a Euro(pean) combination machine, which typically contains a sliding-table saw with a scoring blade, a shaper, a thicknesser, a jointer, and a mortiser. These machines generally have 3 motors, one for the table saw, one for the shaper, and one shared by the thickness planer/jointer and mortiser. European combination machines are geared for the serious hobbyist or professional woodworker or cabinet maker. They are constructed of cast iron and heavy gauge steel, weigh from 1000 to 2000 lbs.
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Thus far, over two hundred artists have been filmed including MacArthur Fellows beadworker Joyce J. Scott, woodworker Sam Maloof, and blacksmith Tom Joyce. Other artists include birch bark basket maker Dona Look, and Mira Nakashima, daughter of furniture maker George Nakashima. Additionally, episodes have highlighted numerous schools and craft institutions committed to advancing and preserving American crafts such as Pilchuck Glass School, Pewabic Pottery, Penland School of Crafts, North Bennet Street School and The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. The series is notable for its diversity of native and multi-cultural craft artists as well as more widely recognized practitioners.
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Steven L. Kent (born August 28, 1960), son of woodworker Ron Kent, is an American writer, known for both video game journalism and military science fiction novels. In the year 1993, Steven started work as a freelance journalist, writing monthly video game reviews for the Seattle Times. He eventually became a contributor to such video game publications as Electronic Games, Next Generation, and Computer Entertainment News, as well as such mainstream publications as Parade, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, the Japan Times, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. He also wrote entries on video games for Encarta and the Encyclopedia Americana.
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The holes are arranged in a line perpendicular to the vise, perhaps three or four inches apart but certainly no further apart than the fully open distance between the vise's jaws. There is a matching dog in the vise. Thus the woodworker can place a bench dog into a suitable dog hole and clamp a piece of timber between the bench dog in the bench and the bench dog in the vise. It is normal to have two rows of holes, with pairs of holes parallel to the vise so that one has four clamping points.
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Richard Jackson was a woodworker, farmer, and mariner, and built the oldest portion of this house on his family's plot, located on an inlet off the Piscataqua River, north of Portsmouth's central business district. Jackson's house resembles English post-medieval prototypes, but is notably American in its extravagant use of wood. The house as first built consisted of a two-story structure with two rooms on each floor, flanking a massive central chimney. Not long afterward, a lean-to section was added to the rear (north side) of the house, which slopes nearly to the ground.
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The Chestnut Street District is a historic district bounded roughly by Bridge, Lynn, Beckford, and River Streets in Salem, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and enlarged slightly in 1978. The district contains a number of architecturally significant works of Samuel McIntire, a builder and woodworker who had a house and workshop at 31 Summer Street, and who designed and built a number of these houses, and others that display the profits made in the Old China Trade by Salem's merchants. The district is a subset of a larger locally designated McIntire Historic District.
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Jacques Grüber Jacques Grüber (25 January 1870 in Sundhouse, France – 15 December 1936 in Paris) was a French woodworker and glass artist. After starting his training at the , where he would later be a teacher, he followed his learning with Gustave Moreau in Paris thanks to a student grant of Nancy. In 1893, he made some decorations for Daum, some furniture for Majorelle and book covers for René Wiener. In 1897, he founded his own studio where he specialised in glass working and stained glass windows, and in 1901 he was one of the founders of the École de Nancy.
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Kira is unsure what to think of that revelation or what Annabella really means by it. Along the way, she becomes closer friends with a younger boy, Matt, and makes a new friend in her neighborhood at her new home, Thomas, who is a boy around Kira's age. Thomas is also an orphan and has lived there since he was very young because of his abilities. It is learned that he is the woodworker who maintains and improves the Singer's staff, which, in turn, helps the Singer remember the history of the society as he sings the lengthy song.
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Smith was a local builder and woodworker who assisted in the construction of a large number of buildings in Vernal, Utah, and surrounding communities. His works include more than thirty residences as well as several various civic and religious buildings. The house is one of only two, two-story foursquare-type residences in the area and one of the larger houses in the settled area surrounding the city of Vernal. The foursquare house type is not as common in Utah as in other areas, especially in rural areas such as Vernal, and the Smith House is a unique variation of the type.
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Originally from New England, Auslander's travels outside the United States and jobs as a woodworker have deeply influenced her intellectual development and choice to go study history. Her parents were professors of mathematics - Bernice L. Auslander at University of Massachusetts at Boston and Maurice Auslander at Brandeis University. Auslander received her A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1979, her A.M from Harvard University in 1982 and her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1988, where she studied under Joan W. Scott. She joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1987, and, after receiving tenure, was promoted to the rank of full professor.
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Organ Between 1708 and 1713 an organ was built in the new church by the Franciscan Adam Öhninger, with 41 registers on three keyboards and pedals.Bistum Fulda © – Die große Orgel Andreas Balthasar Weber and the artist-woodworker Georg Blank undertook the carvings on the organ case. In a comprehensive restoration of the cathedral between 1992 and 1996 the case was restored and the old colours that were discovered were replaced as close as possible in the original. The Rieger Orgelbau company completed in 1996 the new organ works, using some of the pipes from the old Sauer organ.
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In 1901 a local teacher O. Skobinas published the book Kaltinėnai town in which he described contemporary town life. He wrote that a post office opened in 1861, a paramedic centre in 1882, a savings bank in 1897, and a chemist in 1898. Small markets took place every Wednesday, and large ones six times a year. 10 shops, several tearoom-canteens, and 17 craftsmen (seven tailors, five shoemakers, two blacksmiths, two glaziers and a woodworker) also worked in the town. 430 people lived in Kaltinėnai at that time--263 Catholics, 140 Jews, 15 Orthodox and 12 Evangelical Lutherans.
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This makes Anne proud and they begin to repair their friendship, but when Anne tells Billy that she would go out with David "Fanto" Hodges (Daniel Dinnen) if he asked, Billy decides to get her out of his system. Felicity Scully (Holly Valance) takes an interest in Billy, but realises that he is not over Anne and quickly backs off. Billy creates a new kitchen table for the Scully family and, despite Joe Scully's (Shane Connor) protests, the table stays in the Scully kitchen. Billy is then offered an apprenticeship by Greg Mast (Roy Thompson) a woodworker in Queensland.
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In 1957 the Toms moved out, desiring to live closer to central London, and they were replaced by Jean and David Macdonald; Jean was an architect who worked alongside Ted Hollamby, while David was an accountant and woodworker. Rearranging the former ownership arrangements, the Macdonalds and Hollambys agreed to legally own half of the property each. However, in 1964 the Macdonalds left and the Hollambys assumed sole ownership of the House. In 1953, the newly founded William Morris Society held its inaugural meeting at the Red House, subsequently holding a garden party there in 1960 to commemorate its centenary.
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In 1957, the Toms left Red House and moved to Blackheath, desiring to live closer to central London. They were replaced by Jean and David Macdonald; Jean was an architect colleague of Edward's who shared his socialist values, while David was an accountant and woodworker. Rearranging the former ownership arrangements, the Macdonalds and Hollambys agreed to legally own half of the property each, while Jones remained as a lodger. Together, the two couples made repairs and restorations to the house; they repaired the leaking roof and added Morris & Co. wallpapers along with furniture from Heal's and Ercol.
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Edith Somerville recalls Currey's resistance to a proposed local authority drainage scheme that could destroy her daffodil plots by sitting on a wall with a shotgun. Around 1900, Currey collected two colour forms of wood anemone, Lismore Blue and Lismore Pink, which are still cultivated today. She noted that blue forms of wood anemone always grew in close proximity to water, and was the recorder of the only Yellow Bartsia found in County Waterford. Currey was a supporter of Women's suffrage, was the organist in Lismore cathedral, and was a keen fisher, shooter, woodworker, sculptor, and made mosaics.
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Dean Bernardini (born December 27, 1973) is an American musician. He is best known as the former bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock band Chevelle. He joined the band in 2005 after the departure of Joe Loeffler, who had been a member of the group since 1995. Bernardini is also a noted visual artist and woodworker; the cover of the 2009 album Sci-Fi Crimes was an original 24x48 oil on canvas painting by Bernardini, and he also supplied an original oil on canvas painting for the band's 2012 album Stray Arrows: A Collection of Favorites.
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Documentary film by John Thornton (18 m 36s). Accessed March 20, 2015. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHtNa46SaaI A symposium entitled Connecting Circles on Milan’s life, work, and influence, sponsored by the Center for Art in Wood, was held January 17, 2015 at the studios of WHYY-TV in Philadelphia. Presenters included Milan experts Sartorius, Gordon, and Jurus; Elizabeth Agro from the Philadelphia Museum of Art; professional curators Jennifer Zwilling (Philadelphia) and Jennifer Scanlan (New York); Kristin Muller from Peters Valley School of Craft (NJ); Andrew Willner, professional woodworker and colleague of Milan's; and Milan's student and accomplished artist in wood Rebecca Dunn Penwell.
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He demanded from the start that it use walnut sides; while working on the digital clock project he had learned from his woodworker friend that they could get parts for practically nothing if they were small enough to be made from off-cuts. Beyond that requirement, anything was fair. The deadline for the magazine had been pushed back, but there was still little time to finalize the layout before it needed to be photographed. Marsh decided that the machine should have a cassette deck, so they mocked up a machine with a keyboard on the left and cassette player on the right.
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Charles Prendergast was born on 27 May 1863 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. In 1868 the family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived until 1914 when he and his brother moved to New York City. In 1890 he traveled to Paris with Maurice, taking art classes with his brother who was studying at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian. On his return to Boston, Charles became a custom woodworker, eventually focusing on creating unique picture frames influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced “highly prized, hand-carved frames for the greatest artists of his day, including John Singer Sargent.
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Cannon, The History of American Trotskyism, pg. 72. An assault on a Trotskyist meeting held on May Day 1929 was repelled by "Workers Defense Guard" members wielding clubs at the top of a stairway; a retaliatory attack on a business meeting of the Hungarian CLA branch shortly thereafter precipitated into a riot during which one of the interlopers was nearly stabbed to death by a Trotskyist woodworker. The negative publicity and escalation of force surrounding this event ended the first spate of organized violence by the Communist Party against the fledgling CLA.Cannon, The History of American Trotskyism, pg. 73.
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Among them is the Paradise Center for the Arts, a multipurpose art center that is the result of a merger between the Faribault Art Center and the Faribault Area Community Theatre. Two longtime Faribault retailing/shopping institutions closed: the oldest, a longtime Central Avenue fixture, Jim & Joe's Clothiers closed after 125+ years of service due to a number of related factors. The other, Minnick's Food Market, was Faribault's last mom-and-pop grocery store and closed after 60+ years of operation in late 2006. Herbert Sellner, a woodworker and maker of water slides, invented the Tilt-A-Whirl in 1926 at his Faribault home.
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Al Garvey's business flyer for Door/Ways Al Garvey is a woodworker known for his doorways (doors and door frames), sold under his Door/Ways trademark. His work was described as "intricate and sensuous". He not only formed the wood of his doors but he fabricated the brass and bronze hardware. Al fashioned a Dutch door made of stained glass and a combination of Acacia koa and cedar driftwood; this was later shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the 1999–2000 retrospective exhibit titled Far Out: Bay Area Design 1967–73, alongside other hippie-era artworks such as Janis Joplin's psychedelic Porsche 356.
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Mount Lebanon had delegated the manufacture of boxes to hired men by 1900. George Roberts, who was a hired woodworker for the Shakers since 1916, bought all the box making tools and machinery from Mount Lebanon in 1943 to set up his own box business, ending the Shakers' production of these boxes at New Lebanon. That ended the box business for the Shakers except for some still being made at Sabbathday Lake. Beginning in 1994 Sabbathday Lake began making "sewing carriers"—internally cloth-lined Shaker boxes with sewing necessities—to cater to the tourist industry, a business that continues into the twenty-first century.
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As a professional luthier Oberg has been building classical guitars since 1996. He spent three years as apprentice to two of America’s top luthiers, Ervin Somogyi and Robert Ruck. It was his two years living in Washington state and working full-time with Ruck that allowed Oberg to understand fully the complex nature of guitar building, and provided him the opportunity to hone skills acquired during a 20-year career as a woodworker, building everything from wooden racing sloops to reproduction English antiques and fine furniture. To date Oberg has completed over 134 classical guitars, and his instruments are played all over the United States, in Canada, and in Europe.
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Twenty-six stucco statues of saints, the work of Brunelli and Ottaviani, are ranged in niches along the walls along with a new work by Cody Swanson depicting Saint Emygdius. This modern addition was commissioned by Giuseppe Betori, Cardinal of Florence, as a gift to replace an earlier version destroyed during the Second World War. The elegant dome was added to the cathedral during the period 1543-1548 by the architect and woodworker Giuliano di Baccio d'Agnolo and Cola di Caprarola. The upper part of the bell tower of the cathedral was renovated in 1847 by the architect Vitali, while the lower part is still original.
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Probably the oldest and most basic method of holding the work is a planing stop or dog ear, which is simply a peg or small piece of wood or metal that stands just above the surface at the end of the bench top. The work is placed on the bench with the end pushed against the stop. The force of the planing keeps the board in place, so long as the force is always toward the stop. Planing against a stop gives the woodworker good feedback - they can tell a lot about what is going on just by the pressure, force and balance required.
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Felsenstein originally thought he was only needed for the initial design, but as the physical layout began it was clear that the layout artist they had hired would not be able to do it on his own. Marsh had a woodworker friend build a large light table and Felsenstein and the layout artist began using it to design the printed circuit board for the motherboard. While Felsenstein worked on the design, Marsh continually came up with new ideas that he demanded to be included. This led to creeping featuritis problems and the final design was not delivered until about two months of "frantic" work.
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The oldest surviving bus manufacturer in North America, Thomas Built Buses traces its roots to 1916. Following the closure of streetcar manufacturer Southern Car Company, Perley A. Thomas (trained as a woodworker and engineer) founded a company specializing in fireplace mantles and home furnishings. In the summer of 1916, Thomas shifted from furniture to streetcar construction, as he secured a contract to enclose existing streetcars in Charlotte, North Carolina, renovating them in a car barn. In the summer of 1916, Thomas Car Works was founded; with a $6,000 loan ($ in 2018), Thomas acquired the equipment of Southern Car Works at auction, opening an assembly facility in a former ice manufacturing plant in High Point.
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Their working relationship lasted for more than 60 years. Deese and Helen Smith (September 15, 1925 – June 4, 2010) married in 1951 and reared four children. In the mid-fifties, supported by a grant from local art patrons Robert and Catherine Garrison, Deese entered Claremont Graduate School, studying ceramics with Richard Petterson and sculpture with Albert Stewart. He also benefited from the community of artists living in Claremont, most notably architect Millard Sheets and Jean and Arthur Ames, who provided encouragement and support in the early years of his career, and from a close-knit circle of young artists including woodworker Sam Maloof and painters Melvin Woods, Jim Hueter, Jim Fuller, and Karl Benjamin.
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Non-Amish retailers often attend Amish furniture expositions in Ohio and Indiana to see Amish furniture on display and meet the craftsmen behind the pieces. Relationships are often developed, and the retailer becomes the middleman between the simple life of the Amish woodworker and the modern buyer. Amish furniture is now available to a wider market and to those who may not be in close proximity to an Amish woodworking shop. It is no longer necessary to visit a retail location to select the unique wood and stain combination desired; this can all be done on the Internet, and there are dozens of different wood, stain, and upholstery options to choose from.
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According to Arnold Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker who specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. Jakob Ruisdaal biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature His father sent his sons Jacob and Salomon to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specializing in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name. Jacob was registered with the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke and signed his paintings, while Salomon signed them much less often and was not a member for several years. Houbraken wrote that Salomon invented a way of creating sculpted ornaments that when they were polished, looked like polished marble.
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This provides an option to premium new tools or inferior, modern copies, or expensive specialist tools. His no-nonsense insights and advice carry the credibility of his 50 plus years as a Master Craftsman woodworker, working in the UK and USA. Sellers has many YouTube videos on his channel as well as a supporting website and blog. Notable episodes include several on saw sharpening from beginner to advanced, chisel preparation, a comparison/demonstration of modern bevel-edged chisels and vintage "pig- sticker" mortice chisels, "rag-in-a-can oiler", restoring planes, setting up planes, setting up and using old wooden planes and series such as building your own workbench/stool/toolchest and his series of videos showing how to make "Poor man's" versions of various tools.
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St. George and the Dragon in the St. Quentin Cathedral in Hasselt Van Vlierden was more than a skilled woodworker although he lacked the virtuosity of his contemporary Flemish Baroque sculptors. He received a major commission for sculptures in the St. Peter in Chains Church in Beringen, Belgium pursuant to a contract signed in 1686. The Baroque paneling, altars and at least three of the confessionals in the church in Beringen were produced by van Vlierden in collaboration with cabinetmaker Tillman Janssens from Hasselt. Three of the four confessionals can be attributed with certainty to van Vlierden on the basis of stylistic similarities with the confessionals that he made for the Dominican church in Maastricht (now in the Basilica of Saint Servatius).
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Isaack van Ruisdael was born in Naarden in the Dutch Republic in 1599. According to Arnold Houbraken he was the teacher of Isaac Koene, and, assuming Houbraken meant Isaack when he referred to the father of Jacob, he was a woodworker specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings. Isaack van Ruisdael Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Isaack sent his sons to learn Latin and medicine, and they both became landscape painters, specialized in ruis-daal, or trickling water through a dale, after their name. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch abbreviation, RKD), Houbraken confused the members of the family Ruysdael.
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Kim Bồng wood carvings. As its popular appellation suggests, the economy of Kim Bồng has long been dominated by carpentry (including cabinetmaking and shipbuilding) and woodworking. Kim Bồng woodwork is featured on unique columns, rafters and furniture found throughout the greater Hội An area and Quảng Nam Province; local craftsmen have also been employed in many high- profile projects in Vietnam, including detail work on the buildings of the former Imperial capital in Huế, and on Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh's tomb. In more recent years, woodworking as a profession fell out of favour with young people, mainly due to poor returns: the average income of a woodworker in Kim Bồng is about VND 1.5 million (US$85) per month.
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Lost Art Press is a publisher of books and videos for woodworkers and hand tool collectors and is based in Covington, Kentucky. It was established in 2007 by Christopher Schwarz and John Hoffman. The company publishes works that help the modern woodworker learn traditional hand-tool skills as they attempt to restore the balance between hand and machine work by unearthing the so- called "lost arts" of hand skills and explaining how they can be integrated with the machinery in the modern shop to help produce furniture that is crisp, well-proportioned, stout and quickly made. "The Anarchist's Tool Chest," written by Christopher Schwarz, paints a world where woodworking tools are at the center of an ethical life filled with creating furniture that will last for generations.
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As the streetcar manufacturers transitioned from wooden to steel construction, his expertise allowed him to accept a better offer with Southern Car Company in High Point, North Carolina, where he became chief engineer, and he and his wife moved south in 1910. Thomas became chief engineer, draftsman and designer for the company, using both his mechanical skills and his experience as a skilled woodworker. After he was laid off there when the company folded in 1916, he was persuaded to undertake a contract to renovate streetcars for the Southern Public Utilities Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, using Southern's former facilities and many of its employees. The following year, he organized Perley A. Thomas Car Works, which became famous for its streetcars.
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His rare double gift as a woodworker and stucco sculptor was equalled only by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer. In 1744 Christian received a commission to work in Zwiefalten Abbey, where until 1755 he created the choir stalls and numerous stucco figures for the high altar and nave and side chapels, working alongside the painter Franz Joseph Spiegler and the stucco master Johann Michael Feuchtmayer and under the direction of the architect Johann Michael Fischer. Subsequently, Christian was commissioned to work on the abbatial church of the Holy Trinity in Ottobeuren Abbey, for which the architect was once again Fischer and for which Christian created the choir stalls, with gilded reliefs, and the organ reliefs. Once again he worked with Spiegler and J. M. Feuchtmayer.
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Dennis Esquivel, painter and fine woodworker, enrolled member of the Grand Traverse Band The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians is a federally recognized Native American tribe located in northwest Michigan on the Leelanau Peninsula. Sam McClellan is the current tribal chairman, elected in June 2016Loraine Anderson "Tribe Elects New Chairman, Councilmembers" in Traverse City Record-Eagle May 25, 2012 to a four-year term after succeeding Al Pedwaydon, who served from 2012 to 2016. The tribal offices are in Peshawbestown, Michigan. As of September 2018, the current GTB Tribal Council consists of: Chairman Sam McClellan, Vice-Chair Kimberly Vargo, Treasurer Jane Rohl, Secretary Tina A. Frankenberger, Councilor David Arroyo, Councilor Brian S. Napon, and Councilor Mark L. Wilson.
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Emil Milan ('ɛmil Mɪ'lɑːn; May 17, 1922 – April 5, 1985) was an American woodworker known for his carved bowls, birds, and other accessories and art in wood. Trained as a sculptor at the Art Students League of New York, he designed and made wooden ware in the New York City metropolitan area, and later in rural Pennsylvania where he lived alone and used his barn as a workshop. Participating in many woodworking, craft, and design exhibits of his day, his works are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, the Yale Art Gallery, the Center for Art in Wood, the Museum of Art and Design, and many private collections. Once prominent in midcentury modern design, Milan slipped into obscurity after his death.
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During his school years in the hills above Oakland, California, where his father was a woodworker, he developed such a passion for entomology that he acquired the nickname "Bugs." He would go on summer camping trips organized by the Boy Scout leader "Bugsy" Cain, and developed a circle of boyhood friends who went on to become entomologists, including Robert L. Usinger, Judson Linsley Gressitt, and E. Gorton Linsley. At first he collected butterflies, but began to concentrate on weevils at the suggestion of a professor at the nearby University of California, Berkeley. During a camping trip in 1930, he discovered a new species of weevil that became the subject of his first academic publication, in 1932, soon after enrolling in UC Berkeley, where he received a B.S. degree in 1936.
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Trained as a woodworker, Roeder began his vocation in Los Angeles by "placing of from twenty to thirty draw bands on the leaking wooden pipes of the city's water system."Los Angeles Herald, November 28, 1906, page 3 (with photo portrait) He worked for a wagon-maker, "and it came about that his employer owned him $800, while at the same time a customer owed a like amount, and wished to pay it" with a lot he owned on Main Street between Second and Third streets. Roeder "agreed to take the property, although he did not half like the idea." Roeder opened his own blacksmithing and a carriage-making shop on what was then the outskirts of Los Angeles, at First and Spring Streets, where the Nadeau Hotel was later built.
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In the mid 1990s Swan moved to the Scottish Borders and developed a second career as a woodworker (carpenter, cabinet maker and violin restorer).World Beat Music interview with Martin Swan (2001) , retrieved 7 December 2008Hinges pop-up on Mouth Music homepage, retrieved 7 December 2008 After cutting off the top of a finger with a woodworking machine in 2008, he decided to give up the large- scale carpentry and concentrate on restoring old violins. He soon became fascinated and exasperated by the variations in tonal quality of old violins and started researching the methods of Eastern European violin makers. This led to him designing a range of handmade violins, violas and cellos, travelling to Transylvania to choose tonewood and developing friendships with the Hungarian luthiers who now make the instruments for him.
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Hayes would later work as a city official for Edmonton involved in the streets department following his retirement as well as becoming an amateur woodworker producing wooden toys such as trains and puzzles later sold on consignment. Hayes has two children: a daughter, Toni Wynne, born in 1964; and a son, James Craig (Jim), born in 1968. After Bruce and Ross Hart reopened Stampede Wrestling in 1999, Hayes would appear in the promotion as a referee, although his involvement was limited following the Hart brothers limiting their involvement in Stampede Wrestling in 2005. In April 2007, he and several other Stampede Wrestling alumni—including John Cozman, Bob Leonard, Bret and Ross Hart—were honored at a special banquet held in Las Vegas, Nevada by the Cauliflower Alley Club, hosted by Scott D'Amore and Greg Oliver.
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A special collection called "1Hund (RED)", whereby fifteen percent of the profits are used to support HIV/AIDS prevention, was released by the brand. One hundred artists from around the world were chosen to create designs for the collection as part of the (RED) campaign. Professional skateboarder, Anthony Pappalardo, who, at the time, was also associated with another (RED) participant, Girl skateboards—Pappalardo was sponsored by Chocolate skateboards, a brand distributed by the Crailtap, the distribution company that owns both Girl and Chocolate—released a (RED) edition of his high-selling signature skate shoe model. A short video piece was published on the internet and Pappalardo explains in it: > I got into woodworking about two years ago, through a buddy of mine who I > used to skate with every day—he turned into a woodworker.
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Sloane's best known books are A Reverence for Wood, which examines the history and tools of woodworking, as well as the philosophy of the woodworker; The Cracker Barrel, which is a compendium of folk wit and wisdom; and Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake-1805, based on a diary he discovered at a local library book sale. His most famous painted work is probably the skyscape mural, Earth Flight Environment, which is still on display in the Independence Avenue Lobby in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.Independence Avenue Lobby/Rutan Voyager The Eric Sloane Museum & Kent Iron Furnace is operated by the state of Connecticut to showcase Sloane's original artwork, a reproduction of his studio, and his collection of early American tools. Sloane's gravesite is also located on the Museum's property in Kent, CT.
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Gunnar has sent Lerris to Candar with the suspicion that a strong order mage and strong chaos wizard will ultimately be drawn into direct conflict, and that Lerris would take care of the problem without Recluce being directly involved. Lerris ultimately defeats the white wizard and settles down in Candar to live as a woodworker. The climax of the story, 5 years later, in The Death of Chaos sees the powerful Empire of Hamor, the oldest inhabited continent in the world, has been using the relative instability of the rest of the world to consolidate its power. In the final climactic battle on the shores of Recluce, Lerris and his family use their mastery of order and chaos to forcibly impose a balance on the world, unleasing vast amounts of subterranean lava directly into the ocean beneath the invading Hamorian forces.
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Another resident who has achieved prominence is Alan Stirt, woodworker and bowlmaker.Fiske, Ladybelle, "Al Stirt, Bowlmaker, Vermont Life" Magazine, Winter, 1978 In 1976, Irving and Barbara divorced, and a family-owned rental corporation, Lyman Hall, Inc., took over the land.public State records William Fiske was its first President, a position now held by Brion T. McFarlin, who on October 14, 1984 married Isabella Fiske in Brandon, VT.wedding license on file in Rochester, VT William Fiske was married to Anne Fitzgerald for 10 years, and had two children Jason D. Us and Eva Isabel Us. He died on July 18, 2008, in his sleep, in Burlington, VT.Records of The University of Vermont and death certificate on file with the city of Burlington, VT. Barbara Fiske married Donald W. Calhoun, a sociologist, Quaker (as Barbara had become in the 1980s) and professor of sociology at the University of Miami.
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Attorney Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) and her woodworker husband Tom (James Caviezel) find their idyllic life in Marin County, California shattered when, during a Christmas shopping excursion in San Francisco's Union Square, he is captured by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged with the 1988 murders of nine unarmed civilians in a village in El Salvador. Claire learns Tom's real name is Ronald Chapman, and she is shocked to discover he was a covert military operative serving in the Marines and has been on the run for the past twelve years. Tom admits he was present at the scene of the mass murders but staunchly denies any involvement in the killings. He insists he has been scapegoated in order to protect the real culprit, Major James Hernandez (Juan Carlos Hernández), who has become the aide of Brigadier General Bill Marks (Bruce Davison).
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