{"id":164,"date":"2009-09-01T16:52:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-09-10T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:17:19","slug":"employee-project-highlight-furniture-by-thad-trubakoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-projects\/employee-project-highlight-furniture-by-thad-trubakoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Project Highlight: Furniture by Thad Trubakoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thad Trubakoff, Woodworkers Source employee and custom woodworker extraordinaire<\/p><\/div>\n

When I decided it was finally time to get a small-ish cabinet for organizing my archives of our print promotional materials, I drew a quick stick-figure thing of some cubbies and asked Thad – an employee at our Tempe store – to build it for me.<\/p>\n

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The inspiration source: my drawing. Perhaps it was the whole "pizza-n-beer-on-me" thing that got his attention?<\/p><\/div>\n

A week later, he called and said it was finished and ready to be picked up.<\/p>\n

Knowing what I told him, and knowing how pathetic my drawing was, and knowing my criteria (“Ummm, I need a thing that holds some stuff . . “<\/em>),\u00a0 I expected something made of Baltic Birch or maybe just MDF.<\/p>\n

You know, something utilitarian; it just made sense to me.<\/p>\n

Thad didn’t quite understand my expectations.\u00a0 He built a fine piece of furniture instead.\u00a0 And there’s a good reason for it – building fine furniture is just his style.<\/p>\n

How he deduced this fine cabinet from my rudimentary sanskrit will remain a mystery.<\/p>\n

Check out his fine projects.\u00a0\u00a0 Thad is actually just a part-time employee for Woodworkers Source.\u00a0 He’s busy at Arizona State working on a degree in Design Management.\u00a0 It looks like he’s got a long career of building cool stuff ahead of him.<\/p>\n

Thad’s Project Gallery:<\/h3>\n\n\t\t