Comments on: Who Are Your Woodworking Heros?

By: OttCdrFurniture

OttCdrFurniture — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:11:20 +0000

I study woodworking, I now make a living from it (albeit a humble one), and none of it would have been possible without Marc Spagnuolo and his video blog series. I loved watching Norm Abrams but his shows never gave me the courage to try – Marc’s did. I credit the man every opportunity that I get and point people to him every time I get asked how one should go about getting started.

By: kar1205

kar1205 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:38:55 +0000

I agree with many of the aforementioned, however overlooked so far has been Jameel Abraham, woodworker, luthier, “Benchcrafter”, author, photographer, tool maker, videographer, Iowan, religious artisan and Renaissance man!

By: ctarver

ctarver — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:38:40 +0000

my favorite woodworkers are Marc Adams and Michael Fortune

By: BLZeebub

BLZeebub — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:40:58 +0000

James Krenov
Franklin Gottshall
Those guys who fabricated for the Greene Bros.
Sam Maloof
Gary Bennett
Thomas Chippendale
Duncan Phyfe
Thomas Sheraton
Tage Frid
Frank Klaus
Daniel Peart
The Stickly Bros. [all of them]
Charles Rennie MacIntosh
and my dad…

By: rmcnabb

rmcnabb — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:06:42 +0000

In this order:

Wallace Gusler
John Bivins
Roy Underhill

By: toms

toms — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:58:34 +0000

Lonnie Bird, Andy Rae, David Marks and Gary Rogowski are the ones that come to mind first.

By: wklees

wklees — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:45:53 +0000

Chippendale,Sloyd,Maloof,Thomas MacDonald, St. Roy, Norm, The Schwarz, David Marks, Greene and Greene, Roubo, Nicholson, Chris Pye. How can you have heroes when there are so many heroes?

By: stirlo

stirlo — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:29:52 +0000

Neil Erasmus – Fantastic designer/maker, great teacher and an even better bloke.

By: atogrf1

atogrf1 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:09:14 +0000

Glen Huey, hands down. His furniture is spectacular, his use of figured wood is unparallelled and his finishing is perfect.

I love his historical inspired pieces and hope to get to that level of woodworking one day.

Norm Abram was the one that got me (and probably a lot of us) interested in woodworking and inspired, so I owe a huge debt of gratitude to him and The New Yankee Workshop, too.

By: 1100stx

1100stx — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:46:14 +0000

I guess I should expand. George has very practical advice. His demonstrations are simple and effective. I’ve learned a lot from his videos and articles.