Woodworker's Journal 2009-33-2, страница 26

Shop Talk -▼—

Boatbuilder Inspired by Sam Maloof

including three different rocking chairs. "Tables go with chairs, so I have always done tables as well," he said.

"My all-time favorite design," Michael told me, "is 'Bobbi's Chair.' Bobbi is my wife and muse."

— Michael Dresdner

The torso of Michael Doerr's wife was the model for the ergonomic design of the rocker back at left. "Bobbi's chair" is at right. More of Michael's chairs are on michaclJofrr.com.

Boats to Chairs

Comfort with Curves While other woodworkers might consider chairs one of the hardest things to make, former boatbuilder Michael Doerr had an advantage.

"I was used to dealing with bringing curved members together in shipbuilding," Michael pointed out.

At one point in his boatbuilding career, Michael said, "My father gave me Sam Maloof's book, and I at tended a couple of his seminars. I decided I could start making chairs, and have been doing it ever since." He currently makes about a dozen different chair designs,

to donate items they no longer needed. The ReStores, which are run individually but under the umbrella of Habitat for Humanity, coordinated the two sides.

"The crux of what we do is used items," B.J. said, mostly building materials for residential and household use. Someone doing remodeling, for example, who wants to keep items out of the landfill, would donate their unneeded supplies to a ReStore. Depending on whether they meet specific criteria, some donated items may be used in a Habitat home build, B.J. said, but whether that's the case or a member of the public in need of materials purchases them from the ReStore, she said, "everything we do goes to our homebuilding program." Shop Talk continues on page 28 ...

Dumpster Diving Goes Legit: Habitat's ReStore

Shops for Building Supplies

Habitat for Humanity's Restores have a variety of homebuilding materials, dependent on the nature of donations in each store's region.

Reduce, reuse, recycle — ReStore? Woodworkers looking to give back to their community may think about donating their skills to Habitat for Humanity, but they may not realize that the homebuilding organization also runs a set of "ReStores," where I hey can buy or donate "any tiling you could use in construction of a home" — and simultaneously support Habitat.

ReStore program manager B.J. Perkins explained that the stores, which offer used hardware, lighting and plumbing fixtures, lumber, cabinets and more, got I heir start when members of the Habitat organization "essentially went Dumpster diving" in search of supplies — while meanwhile, people would be calling attempting

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