Woodworker's Journal 1992-16-5, страница 4
Where Do All Those Great Projects Come From? Have you ever wondered where all the projects featured in The Woodworker's Journal come from? Each project has a different tale to tell, and this big issue is typical. Three projects, the convertible Step-Stool, the Finger-Saving Plastic Bag Handle and the I niversal Table Saw Jig arrived unsolicited, over-the transom, so to speak The designer-builder of the Step Stool, subsetiber \ It. Beavers, actually drove all the way from his home in lexas lo deliver the prolotyjK to our Connecticut offices, using the occasion to enjoy a Nevs England vacation with his wife Darline. We aren't usually fortunate enough lo have great projects hand-delivered halfway across the country to our door. More commonly, we're hunched over our drawing boards working out our ow n designs or out on the road traveling to craft shows, always on the lookout for that project with a little something special ... a piece that combines function with good design and sound construction. And. if you're thinking that any piece good enough to share all those qualities belongs in a museum . . . well, you're right ... we also look to museums for project ideas. A New Friend Over the years we've featured projects from a number of museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Hancock Shaker Village. Most recently we've concluded an agreement w ith Berea College in Kentucky to bring you the first of w hat we hope will be a long list of projects from that college's world renowned Wallace Nutting Collection. We're starting off with the classic Governor Winthrop Desk (see the back cover of this issue for photo), and it will be featured in the upcoming November/December issue. Nutting, an eccentric character whose career spanned many decades and even more vocations, is perhaps best know n for his efforts to preserve Colonial American culture and furniture designs. Upon his death in 1941. he bequeathed his furniture collection and blueprints to Berea College. Long recognized as a center for hands-on crafts education. Berea s Crafts Program will be celebrating its 100th anniversary next year. In the program, students pay no tuition, working instead 10 to 20 hours per week at woodworking, weaving and other crafts. Participants have a unique opportunity to gain practical experience, technical and business skills, and income while they earn their degree. We think you'll agree that the upcoming Governor Wrinthrop Desk is a very special project. We're really looking forward to presenting this line example of Colonial period woodworking, and you can look forward lo more of the Wallace Nutting collection in issues to come. Editor and Publisher James J. McQuillan Managing Editor Thomas <j. Begnal Associate Editor l)a\id F. Peters Copy Editor kimberly <»ellatly Contributing Editors Jim Barrel!. Rick and F.llen Butz. K .I. DeCristoforo. Dennis Preston Art Director Dan Thornton Associate Art Director and Photographer Michael (iellati) Designer Craftsman Mark J. Ziobro On ulation' Promotion Manager Lynne Streeter \ubs< riprions Jo\nne tinkle, Maureen Murphy-Ceres Distribution Patricia Malumphy i i utiputer Operations \nprni»» kaihy Shook Offit <■ Manager Palricia Mclean Advertising Manager l.ynda Morris Advertising Sales Dan Kamage. Carolyn Kay. Renee Jaunsem Pattis/3M 7161 North Cicero Avenue Ltncolnwood. IL 60646 Tel. (708) 679-1100: Fax (70X) 679-5926 Suhst ription Department The Woodworker's Journal P.O. Box 1629 New Milford. CT 06776 Tel. (203) 355-2694 The Woodworker's Journal (ISSN 0199-1892) is published bimonthly in January. Match. May. July. September and November by The Madrigal Publishing Co. Inc.. PO. Bo* 1629. 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Materials submitted for editorial consideration will be treated with care while in our possession, but we cannot assume responsibility for loss or damage. U.S.A. Newsstand Distribution by Pastern News Distributors. Inc., 1130 Cleveland Rd. Sandusky. OH 44870. Photo Credits: Clarence Cook. Cover and pp. 25.27-32: Ernie Conoxer. pg. 76 irouter table); Andy Shupe. pg. 76 (desk); John Kane Silver Sun Studios, pg. 75 (fiddle, jewelry chest). The Woodworker's Journal |
