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2021 Northern WoodsBest Traditional Design
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2019 Northern WoodsBest Carving
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2018 Northern WoodsBest Handwork & Peer
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2017 Northern WoodsBest Handwork
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2015 Northern WoodsBest Handwork
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2012 Northern WoodsBest Carving
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2011 Northern WoodsBest Traditional Design
(Photo by Ramon Moreno)
2008 Northern WoodsBest Handwork
(Photo by Ramon Moreno)
2007 Northern WoodsBest Carving
(Photo by Ramon Moreno)
2006 Northern WoodsBest Handwork
(Photo by Ramon Moreno)
2005 Northern WoodsWoodworking for Pleasure
(Photo by Burt Levy)
2004 Northern Woods
News
Best Traditional Design - for reproduction of a Philadelphia Side Chair - 2021 Northern Woods Show
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Cartouche Award 2020 - Presented by the SAPFM for life time achievement in Period Furniture.
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Best Traditional Design - for reproduction of a Philadelphia Tip & Turn Tea Table - 2019 Northern Woods Show
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Best Carving - for reproduction of a Tall Case Clock - 2018 Northern Woods Show
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Best Handwork & Peer Award - for reproduction of a Chippendale Dressing Table - 2017 Northern Woods Show
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Best Handwork - for reproduction of a John Goddard Tea Table - 2015 Northern Woods Show
HardcoverBuild A Philadelphia Chippendale Dressing Table
Build one of the most iconic and elegant forms in American furniture history. Expert furniture crafter Kubalak teaches how to craft a reproduction of one of the most highly embellished and finest examples ever made. Using step-by-step photos, Kubalak directs the serious student through this complex project by breaking it into several subprojects, then combining them into the completed piece. Each subproject has its own chapter that provides pattern drawings, exploded views, detailed instructions, and abundant photographs of every step. Additional chapters focus on case construction, subassemblies, and finishing. Although this is an advanced project, the instruction is logical and complete so that the serious reader, independent of skill, can successfully work through the steps. Full-size project plans are included. Build your own version that will be a family heirloom for generations.
Price: $60.00
PaperbackCarving 18th Century Furniture Motifs
The carved embellishments found on eighteenth-century American furniture pieces are what make them memorable works of art. This book directs the serious student through nine authentic elements from the colonial period. Each chapter is devoted to one element and provides pattern drawings, detailed instructions, and abundant photographs of every step. Learn how to execute the entire process from sculpting the surface to layout, roughing in the shapes and levels, and finally carving the details. The selected projects are chosen from historically important eighteenth-century furniture and adorned some of the best pieces ever made. Although the book tackles advanced topics, the instruction is logical and complete so that the serious reader, independent of skill, can successfully work through the steps.
Price: $22.50
PaperbackCarving 18th Century Furniture Elements
Presenting 10 projects--from shaping the surface through layout to rough carving and detailed carving--this guide explains the process of carving authentic motifs found on the most treasured pieces of 18th-century American furniture. Written with a two-pronged approach, the book first emphasizes that these are learned skills and offers guidance while, secondly, providing all the complex details that serious carvers need to reproduce each element with confidence. Selected for their importance and popularity on museum-quality pieces, projects include the cabriole leg, Philadelphia-style ball and claw foot, carved foliage on knee, Philadelphia rosette, and Newport flame finial, among others.
Price: $22.50
Books For Sale
Book 3 Is Now Available!
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