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Readers Gallery
From Fine Woodworking Issue #144
The annual Design in Wood competition held at San Diego's Del Mar Fair brings in more than 300 entries and after 19 years has become on of the best single exhibitions in woodworking in the country. We decided to share many of this year's winners with you in Fine Woodworking #144 (September/October 2000), Current Work, pp. 94-97. Four of these pieces appear below. Photos: Lynn Rybarczyk and Ed Suszynski, courtesy of San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association.
Gary Rawlins
Master Woodworker's Trophy
Inspired by the Shaker work of Abner Allen, Rawlins originally designed this cabinet (6 in deep by 15 in. wide by 35 in. high) for his final project at a college in England. The case is made of wenge, the panels and drawers of tulipwood and the handles of ebony. With through-tenons and an asymmetrical drawer design, the piece took 10 years to complete. Rawlins worked on it whenever he had spare time and looked upon it as an exercise of his talents.
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Michael Maley
First Place, Musical Instruments
Maley has been making harps for the past 10 years. This one (18 in. wide and 61 in. high) was made from maple boards that had been sitting around his shop for years. The most challenging part of this project was figuring out how to handle the wide, barky planks because they were bigger than any of his machines.
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Seth Janofsky
First Place, Veneering and Marquetry
Janofsky originally made these door panels as alternates for the sideboard that appeared in issue #137 of Fine Woodworking. Though he opted from something simpler on the sideboard, these panels were the starting point around which Janofsky designed this white oak and maple cabinet (15 in. deep by 38 in. wide by 44 in. high). The marquetry and inlay are padauk and American sycamore.
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Bruce Friederick
First Place and People’s Choice Award, Model Building
Built at full scale, this all-wood replica of Friederick’s bicycle is so carefullly detailed that most of its parts actually work—the wheels spin, the steering wheel steers, the chain turns on the sprocket. Made mostly of maple and purpleheart, the avid cyclist and turner spent 700 hours completing this replica.
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