By Rhys Nye and Dan Zaklan The Port Alberni Harbour Quay is located on the west side of Vancouver Island—on the wet west coast of Canada. With an annual rainfall of about 6 ½'(1.88 M) and summertime temperatures reaching nearly 100°F (37°C), it’s a tough environment for wood. The Harbour Quay Eagle carving, an almost […]
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By Rachael Geerts – GBI Composites Materials Engineer Casting epoxy is really catching on. Live edge tables with bright centers, clear coasters with stones, wood, or shells intricately placed, or even beautiful jewelry can be made with WEST SYSTEM Epoxy. With so many people venturing into using epoxy this way, I will address common questions […]
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A Marquetry Love Letter to the Allman Brothers By James Macdonald The design features my marquetry rendition of some of the original artwork by Wonder Graphics on the inside cover of their epic Eat a Peach album, released in 1972. In the early days of my woodworking career, beginning in 1981, I spent time as […]
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By Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor My career at Gougeon Brothers is coming to an end. By the time you read this article, I will have moved on to new things, the things that retired people do such as travel, kayak, volunteer, read books, and tinker creatively in my shop. There is a place […]
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By Ryan Krafka I first got the idea for this project driving through a neighborhood in Iowa City where my wife and I live and work. “You have to see this awesome mailbox,” I said to my wife as we drove through a neighborhood one day this past fall. There it was, a dolphin mailbox. […]