Tim Arnold has always loved woodworking. A close family member kept encouraging him to take a box making class at Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. When he finally did, Tim immediately found his true passion! Not long after that, he said goodbye to the corporate world and has enjoyed making Shaker oval boxes using(…)
Twelve years ago, I found myself teaching a Sculptured Rocker Class at Highland Woodworking in the same studio where Sam Maloof had taught many times. On the wall were giant pictures of Maloof and Tage Frid staring down at me. I was totally inspired and scared to death. Let me tell you my story about(…)
The notes for this segment are hard for me to write! Especially, when yours truly is the subject of the Moment with a Master segment. Yep! It is about your host’s story. How did I journey from being a longtime garage woodworker in a South Georgia town to become your host for The Highland Woodworker?(…)
He wasn’t interested so much in what was on the blackboard in school. Don Weber’s thoughts were on what he saw on the other side of the window from his desk. The Welsh woodlands were full of adventure, and he wanted to explore all it had to offer! His dad made him a small toolbox(…)
Wyatt Severs is the youngest woodworker we have featured in our “Moment with a Master” series. I found some of his amazing work online and had to know more about him. So first, I read his biography and was blown away by his resume. Wyatt has already taught at all the prestigious woodworking schools in(…)
George Wurtzel was born with a degenerative eye disease that left him unsighted by the age of twenty. In our “Moment with a Master” we visit George at his East Tennessee workshop where he shares his compelling story and shows us how he accomplishes his woodworking projects. Furniture maker Jeff Miller teaches his method for(…)
