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Learn Woodworking: Snow College | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Learn Woodworking: Snow College. A Traditional Building Skills student (top) shows off the cherry stool he built in a furniture class led by Chris Gochnour. In another class, students built their own versions of Gochnour’s sea chest, which was featured in Fine Woodworking magazine. Administrators at Snow College probably don’t mean to brag on their wood shop when they tout the school as “The Best Two-Year College in America.”. The for-credit cabinet and furniture classes...
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Prof Brings Voice of Experience to Taos Program. Professor James Rannefeld helps a student prepare for gluing up the base of her Spanish Colonial end table project in the wood shop at UNM Taos. Inspiration bench, in oak. Rannefeld wrote about the laminated joinery technique used to build it for Fine Woodworking magazine in 1983. Determined not to fall back on geology or oceanography, he instead became a woodworker. He wrote for Fine Woodworking. Teacher. At the Unive...
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Learn Woodworking: Southwest School of Woodworking | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Learn Woodworking: Southwest School of Woodworking. A proud student shows the Arts and Crafts table she built at the Southwest School of Woodworking. When Raul Ramirez started learning woodworking in the 1970s, the Arizona desert posed a couple of serious obstacles: Few trees and even fewer teachers. The facility is more rustic than Ramirez would like, but it offers the students plenty in the way of woodworking resources. The shop holds a full complement of floor-sta...
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November | 2014 | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Monthly Archives: November 2014. Mesquite slab at Collector’s Specialty Hardwoods near Denver, above. Long live edge slabs at King Mesquite near Tucson, right. Armoire, left, features walnut frame and mesquite panels, by Louis Fry of Dripping Springs, TX. Mesquite slab dining table by Earl Nesbitt of Edgewood, NM. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. November 21, 2014. How does it feel under the hand? These things matter because woodworkers make things that last and l...
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December | 2014 | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Monthly Archives: December 2014. Learn Woodworking: Anderson Ranch Arts Center. In addition to the summer workshop schedule, the ranch also offers seasonal residencies to working artists and extended, intensive learning sessions to folks who are advanced in their craft. It’s a really tight-knit community – a collaborative environment, he says. Everyone’s here for the same reason, and we’re all learning from each other and bouncing ideas off of each other. The woodworking...
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Learn Woodworking: UNM – Taos Branch | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Learn Woodworking: UNM – Taos Branch. The view from the UNM Taos campus. Photo courtesy of http:/ www.terrain.org. The second stop on our virtual tour of regional woodworking schools is in the mountains of northern New Mexico. James Rannefeld, the program’s founder and director was a solo craftsman and a production shop owner before getting into teaching. The faculty also includes several other accomplished local furniture-makers and carvers. December 5, 2014. Learn Wood...
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May | 2015 | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Monthly Archives: May 2015. Prof Brings Voice of Experience to Taos Program. Professor James Rannefeld helps a student prepare for gluing up the base of her Spanish Colonial end table project in the wood shop at UNM Taos. Inspiration bench, in oak. Rannefeld wrote about the laminated joinery technique used to build it for Fine Woodworking magazine in 1983. Determined not to fall back on geology or oceanography, he instead became a woodworker. He wrote for Fine Woodworking.
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Prof Brings Voice of Experience to Taos Program | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Prof Brings Voice of Experience to Taos Program. Professor James Rannefeld helps a student prepare for gluing up the base of her Spanish Colonial end table project in the wood shop at UNM Taos. Inspiration bench, in oak. Rannefeld wrote about the laminated joinery technique used to build it for Fine Woodworking magazine in 1983. Determined not to fall back on geology or oceanography, he instead became a woodworker. He wrote for Fine Woodworking. Teacher. At the Unive...
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Learn Woodworking: Anderson Ranch Arts Center | 4squarecorners
https://4squarecorners.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/learn-woodworking-anderson-ranch-arts-center
A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Learn Woodworking: Anderson Ranch Arts Center. In addition to the summer workshop schedule, the ranch also offers seasonal residencies to working artists and extended, intensive learning sessions to folks who are advanced in their craft. It’s a really tight-knit community – a collaborative environment, he says. Everyone’s here for the same reason, and we’re all learning from each other and bouncing ideas off of each other. The woodworking facilities consist of a fully eq...
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April | 2015 | 4squarecorners
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A Blog for Southwest Woodworkers. Monthly Archives: April 2015. Chase Ankeny – Albuquerque Furniture Maker. Hy and history from the University of New Mexico, he hiked the Pacific Crest Trail before settling on furniture making as a career path. He finished at Redwoods in 2012 and just recently left a job in a production shop here in Albuquerque to devote himself full time to his own furniture-making business. He seems poised for a good start. View his work (at www.chaseankeny.com. April 10, 2015.
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