Woodworker: Matt WajdaWajda’s father, a microbiologist, is a lifelong hobbyist woodworker. When Matt’s mother gave his father a gift of a two-week workshop at NBSS in 1997 and invited Matt to go along, he somewhat grudgingly agreed. Two years later, Matt was enrolled in the full-time program, which he found “life altering.” Since then he’s worked with Windsor chair maker Michael Dunbar and taught NBSS workshops himself. He now makes furniture in his own shop. He made this maple and rosewood bench (20 in. deep by 65 in. wide by 18 in. tall), one of a set of four, for a doctor’s waiting room.