Posts Tagged ‘contest’

Roger Weinreber’s Mission-Style Furniture Wins Best of Show, Excellence in Woodworking Show

Monday, February 28th, 2011

If there’s a reminder about craftsmanship in woodworking to be found in Roger Weinreber’s project, it’s this:  attentive execution in a classic furniture design goes a long way.

Roger entered his mission-style piece in the Excellence in Woodworking contest that was hosted by the Arizona Association of Fine Woodworkers earlier this month.

His cabinet didn’t just turn heads, but also took the Best of Show award.

Take a look.  In woodworking, it’s awfully easy to get carried away with all the choices you have between design tweaks, wood types, joinery options, random visions that come to you in your sleep… But then there’s something to a project like this cabinet in which just good ol’ fashioned craftsmanship wins the big award.

Congratulations to Roger!


Here’s a closer look at his piece:

AZ Association of Fine Woodworkers Prove Their Mettle with a Box Contest

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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Figured Walnut and maple box by John Irwin

In November of 2009, the Arizona Association of Fine Woodworkers assembled in the warehouse at our Phoenix store for their monthly meeting.  A number of them brought their latest finished projects; a bookcase, several turned bowls, fretwork, and more.  They discussed the woods they used, the challenges they encountered, and the techniques they learned. One of the members conducted a demonstration on how to weave and apply chair caning.

Then I presented them with another challenge, a box making contest using a selected package of materials of 3 pieces of exotic Huayruro, 3 pieces of figured walnut blocks, and a 15″x15″ piece of Baltic birch.  Each woodworker could add to the materials, but each of these had to be used in the box somewhere.

On February 19, the entrants turned in their boxes for judging and I selected the top three boxes based on ranking the originality, execution, finish, and artistry of each one from 1 to 5. read more


 
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