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Ross Day: Furnituremaker

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Ross Day Gets Ripe
BY JONATHAN BINZEN
Ross Day grew up in a scattering of towns out West in the ’50s and ’60s and early ’70s. From Denver, where he was born in 1954, his family moved to Pueblo, Colorado, then to Boise, Idaho, and, when Ross was ten, on to Seattle, where they stayed. One year… »

Flotilla

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TEXT AND PHOTOS BY TOM LOESER
This series of “bad boats,” formally know as “Flotilla,” came out of a summer project in the woodshop at the University of Wisconsin in the summer of 2006. Two graduate students (Matthias Pliessnig and Ben Wooten) and I built three copies of a real boat, the Whitehall 12, using a… »

Tips and Techniques

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My rubber mallet has just the right amount of heft for assembling and disassembling joints. The problem is that the black rubber of the mallet head often leaves an ugly mark on the wood. I solved this problem by stretching an old sock over the head of the mallet. The elasticity of the sock keeps… »