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Rustic Wood Wall Art:

A Pinterest® Success Story

By Jenessa Hilger – GBI Marketing

If you’ve ever used Pinterest, then you know that it is filled with projects that give a false sense of confidence in your own artistic abilities. Hence, the wildly entertaining “Pinterest fails”. Mindlessly scrolling one day, when I probably should have been doing something productive, I stumbled across a rustic wood wall art piece. A little epoxy, some scrap wood, and I can build that. No problem.

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How to Make a Wood & Epoxy Vase

By Ed Lewis

A wood/epoxy vase by Ed Lewis

Cover Photo: One of Ed Lewis’s wood/epoxy turned vases.

In 1947, my parents took me to Gatlinburg, Tennessee for my first vacation. I was fascinated by a woodturner and resolved that I would one day learn the craft. In the early 1970s, I found an ancient used lathe in a flea market. I bought a box set of chisels at Sears and set out to learn the craft. I didn’t have a teacher and I made a lot of mistakes. Continue reading