Last year’s Student Exhibit at Fine Woodworking Live was such a success that we are doing it again in 2020. Details to follow soon.
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Here are a few inspiring pieces that were on display in the past.
Ben Wainmann
Boston, Mass.
“This piece has certainly been my ‘masterpiece’ during my tenure at North Bennet Street and a reference of the knowledge and skills I developed as a student,” Wainmann says of this secretary, based on a Sheraton Lady’s Secretary built in Massachusetts circa 1800‑1810. Among the learning opportunities it presented were constructing barred doors, turned and reeded legs, veneering, and working at a large scale—“only to name a few.”
Mahogany (solid and veneer), curly maple, and soft maple, 22d x 37w x 74h
Photo: Lance Patterson
Jeffrey Tuballes
New York, N.Y.
Tuballes describes this chair as “a case study on reinterpreting a modern style armchair with clean lines and chamfered edges, using traditional fabrication methods.” The chair features wedged through-tenons, hidden splines, and a hand-woven, custom-dyed seat stuffed with horse hair.
Oak, 17-1⁄4d x 23w x 39h
Photo: Lance Patterson
Jesse Shaw
Watertown, Mass.
Shaw calls this the Droplet Table, because it was inspired by watching droplets of rain create expanding circles as they hit the surface of a pool of water. “The intent was to capture the geometry of the center rippling outward.”
Walnut, 40 dia. x 16h
Brian McAlpine
Scituate, Mass.
Small wood turnings like this serve several purposes for McAlpine. One, they are simple and elegant on their own merits; and two, they let him experiment with color and finishing techniques he’ll use in larger furniture pieces. The lid on this container is bleached ash, and the body is walnut finished with oil.
Walnut and ash, 10 dia. x 5h
Photo: Dalton Paley