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Woodworker: Steve OrtonOrton made this chest of drawers (18 in. deep by 24 in. wide by 66 in. tall) for his sister-in-law. At first she wanted a traditional Shaker-style chest,…

Woodworker: James A. Harper, Jr. James A. Harper Jr. was inspired to build this stand as a very late wedding gift, after a friend received a two-volume dictionary as a…

Woodworker: Judith Ames The inspiration for this buffet came from the wood. Judith Ames wanted to highlight the even pink color and figure of the madrone. She combated any possible…

Woodworker: Anders Whealdon A collaboration between designer Ejler Hjorth-Westh and woodworker Anders Whealdon resulted in this handsome chair. Whealdon searched for a wood that would complement...

Woodworker: Desmond Nault For his first project at the College of the Redwoods, Nault made this madrone jewelry box on a jatoba stand. The two biggest challenges, he said, were…

Woodworker: John P. McCormack McCormack designed this piece around a granite drilling core from the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Boston. McCormack used 60 sheets of 80-grit sandpaper to polish the...

Woodworker: Joel Shepard Shepard built this Biedermeier-style cabinet for best-selling thriller novelist John Saul. The traditional cabinet doubles as a modern computer desk with eight hidden...

Woodworker: Greg Klassen Inspired by the movement of the Pacific Ocean, Klassen, a College of the Redwoods student wanted this bench to convey the eternal motion of a wave. The…

Woodworker: Chris Hedges This Philadelphia secretary swept the AWFS Fresh Wood student competition in July 2007, taking first place in the reproduction category, best in show, and the peoples...

Woodworker: German F. Plessl The cabinet was Plessl's first project in the College of the Redwoods fine furniture program, in California. He made the school's trademark cabinet-on-stand, but gave it...