- James Krenov
James Krenov is a world-famous woodworker. James Krenov was born in Wellen in Kamchatka in 1920. Currently he lives in Fort Bragg, CA where he still makes cabinets. As of 2002, he no longer teaches at College of the Redwoods, whose fine woodworking program he founded.
- Sam Maloof
Sam Maloof (born January 24 1916 in Chino, California) is a furniture designer and maker. His work has been displayed in museums around the United States. All his pieces are custom-made, and there is currently a several-year waiting period for customers who have placed orders. One of his rockers typically sells for about $25,000. In 1985 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Presidents Carter and Reagan have both owned Maloof rockers.
- Norm Abram
Norman L. "Norm" Abram (born 1950) is an American carpenter known for his work on the PBS television programs "This Old House" and "The New Yankee Workshop". He is referred to on these shows as a "Master carpenter"
- George Nakashima
George Katsutoshi Nakashima was a Japanese American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th Century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement.
- Tage Frid
Tage Frid (1915 - 2004) was an influential Danish-born woodworker who immigrated to the USA in 1948. He was a professor of Woodworking and Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1962 to 1985, and an editor of "Fine Woodworking" Magazine from its inception in 1975 to his death.
- Jeremy Broun
Jeremy Broun is a British woodworker, furniture designer maker, speaker, and writer. Broun's furniture is innovative in the use of technique and form. His Caterpillar Rocking chair in 1984 'is visually stunning, a good combination of colour, structure and practicality... and has the advantage of being a truly original idea : just as Saarinen and his pedestal chairs converted four chairlegs into one' ("An Encyclopedia of Chairs" - The Apple Press).
- Roy Underhill
Roy Underhill was raised in Washington, DC and 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". As of 2004, the show was the longest-running PBS "how-to" show. Initially inspired by traditional woodworking by a sister that worked at the Smithsonian, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a degree in Theater.
- Duncan Phyfe
Duncan Phyfe was one of 19th century America’s leading furniture makers. Born Duncan Fife near Loch Fannich in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, he immigrated to Albany, New York at age 16 and served as a cabinetmaker’s apprentice. In 1792, he changed the spelling of his name, moved to New York City, and opened his own business, which eventually employed over a hundred workers.
- Garry Knox Bennett
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.
- David J. Marks
David J. Marks is a woodworker living in Santa Rosa, CA. Marks studied art at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, CA. He is the host of DIY Network's show "Wood Works", he also teaches private classes on various topics in his studio. His projects on "Wood Works" involve remarkably (perhaps exessively) complex manufacture of simple items like desks and chairs. He generally uses multiple rare woodstocks on each project.
- Lu Ban
Lu Ban (fl. 5th century BC) was a Chinese carpenter, philosopher, military thinker, stateman and contemporary of Mozi born in the State of Lu. His real name was Gongshu Ban, also known as the Master Gongshu (Gongshuzi), because he was from the State of Lu, he was most commonly referred to as Lu Ban from records. Lu Ban is well notable for his achievements after his subject to the State of Chu.
- Robert Hamada
Robert Hamada is a self-taught woodturner on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. His bowls are part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Museum of Fine Arts, Detroit collections, have been exhibited in the Bangladesh embassy and are also part of numerous private collections. He is a Living Treasure for the State of Hawaii.
- Eliphalet Chapin
Eliphalet Chapin (born in Massachusetts, 1741, died in East Windsor, Connecticut, 1807) was a cabinetmaker and furniture maker in East Windsor, Connecticut in the late 1700s. His style of furniture design is regarded as one of the most elegant of its time. The young Chapin's family were woodworkers, and he too entered the trade. In his early 20s, he was named in a paternity suit by Hannah Bartlett.
- John Boson
John Boson was a cabinet maker and carver whose work is associated with that of William Kent. It is said that if he had not died at such a relatively young age then his place would have been assured in the history of furniture making in the United Kingdom. He was born around the year 1705 and it is most likely that he learned his trade and served his apprenticeship near the naval ship yards of Deptford, for by the 1720's he had a yard and workshop in Greenwich.
- André Jacob Roubo
André Jacob Roubo was a French cabinetmaker and author. The son and grandson of Master Cabinetmakers, he earned that designation in 1774 through the publication of his masterwork treatise on woodworking. He wrote a highly influential complete treatise on woodworking that covers practically all the associated trades. This multi-volume work, "L'Art du Menuisier" ("The Art of the Joiner"), published between 1769 and 1774 by the Académie des Sciences, …
- Joe Seliga
Joe Seliga was a master builder of wood-and-canvas canoes in Ely, Minnesota. Seliga was inspired by the elegant Morris canoes of Maine, built from 1887 to 1920. Seliga was an inspiration and model for other canoe builders from before World War II until his death at the age of 94, when he was still building canoes.
- Alexander Roux
Alexander Roux was a French-trained "ébéniste", or cabinetmaker, who emigrated to the United States in the 1830s. He opened a shop in New York City in 1837. The business grew quickly: by the 1850s he employed 120 craftsmen in his shop and introduced then-new industrial technologies, such as steam-powered saws. Roux specialized in the ornate Rococo Revival style, but practiced many others.
- Hermann Steiner
Hermann Steiner (1913 - November 14, 2005) was a Swiss inventor and businessman. In 1944, Steiner opened his carpenters shop in Liestal, Switzerland. He invented a system in 1956 that he called the Lamello Joining System which is now known as the biscuit joiner or plate joiner. He also produced the first portable plate joiner in the late 1960s. In 1969, his family operation was incorporated under the name Lamello AG.
- Henry O. Studley
Henry O. Studley (1838-1925) was an organ and piano maker, carpenter, and mason who worked for the Smith Organ Co., and later for the Poole Piano Company of Quincy, Massachusetts. Born in 1838 in Lowell, Massachusetts, Studley is best known for creating the so called Studley Tool Chest, a wall hanging tool chest which cunningly holds some 300 tools in a space that takes up about 40 inches by 20 inches of wall space when closed.
- Jamie Allan Kerr
Jamie Allen Kerr born 1984, Darvel Scotland. Jamie Kerr is a Master craftsman and the youngest of his kind in Scotland. 'New Woodworking Magazine' a GMC publication hailed him as 'The man of tomorrow' in tribute to his great idol the fictional comic character Superman.
- Nevile Wilkinson
Major Sir Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, KCVO (1869-1940) was a British officer of arms, a veteran of the Boer War, and a dollhouse designer.
- Captain John H. Hall
John H. Hall (1781 - 1841) was the inventor of the M1819 Hall breech-loading rifle, and a mass production innovator.
- Charles-Honoré Lannuier
Charles-Honoré Lannuier, French-born American cabinetmaker (1779–1819), lived and worked in New York City. In Lannuier's time, the style of his furniture was described as "French Antique." Today his work is classified primarily as Federal style, Neoclassical, or American Empire.
- Sympson The Joiner
Sympson the Joiner (fl. 1660s) was a joiner (and perhaps cabinet maker) who worked at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Woolwich in London. He is remembered only because Samuel Pepys mentions his name several times in his diary. Pepys' job as a naval administrator brought him into daily contact with the naval dockyards and he was responsible for various aspects of their administration. Although the diary explicitly notes that Pepys was paying him handsomely, …
- Heinouchi Yoshimasa
Heinouchi Yoshimasa was a famous master carpenter, in Edo period Japan, and was the progenitor of a long line of master carpenters. With his son Masanobu he wrote a manual of construction and building design, "Shoumei" (匠明) in 1608. This book is the most famous of early works on Japanese building construction.
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- Tim Short
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- Tim McLoughlin
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- Shane
Hey. My name is Shane. I'm 26 from St. Catharines ON. I'm really here to reconect with old friends and make some new friends along the way. I love music, every form, style, and sound. I went to college in Kitchener for woodworking and cabinetry and I work in a custom wood shop. I enjoy hanging out with friends cause I have the greatest friends ever, going to concerts, bars, or just takin it easy, theres always a good time to be had.
- Ammon Embry-pelrine
A charismatic leo with knack for dance music. Often cheerful with occasional moments of rage (did i mention I'm a leo?) I take too much time to do everything (why rush?) and I always look at the positive and ignore the negative, which can be problematic at times. I'm a perfectionist by trade, and probably the most patient and accepting person you'll ever meet in your life. I tend to run my mouth on occasion because I feel like I have a lot of pertinent ideas to share.
- Thad
Im a self employed woodworker/ home restoration and love it. Moved up here to Superior about 6 years ago from the deep south and decided to make it home. I have lived in 10 states and have to say, WI is my favorite so far. I love to have a great time, get along great with my family, love my job and all the things it lets me do and have no insane tendencies. My job gives me almost total flexibility so I travel as much as I can.
- Leslie Bernstein
i tried to be a hermit; it didn't work. now i'm paying the price.