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David Ellsworth



   David Ellsworth’s first experience with the lathe was in a woodshop class in 1958. He continued to turn through high school, then spent three years in the military and eight years in college studying architecture, drawing and sculpture, receiving a masters degree in fine art from the University of Colorado in 1973. He started the woodworking program at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado in 1974, and the following year opened his first private woodturning studio in Boulder, Colorado. It was during the mid-1970’s that David designed a series of bent turning tools and the methods required for making the thin-walled hollow forms of which he is known worldwide. His first article titled, “Hollow Turning” appeared in the May/June 1979 issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine.

David is the founding member of the American Association of Woodturners, of which he was president from 1986-1991, and its first Honorary Lifetime Member. He has written over fifty articles on subjects related to woodturning and has operated the Ellsworth School of Woodturning at his home and studio in Buck’s County, Pennsylvania since 1990. His works have been included in the permanent collections of twenty-six museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has taught workshops throughout the world and has received fellowship grants from the National Endowment of Arts, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the PEW Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Craft Council and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Craft Council.

www.ellsworthstudios.com 		 

Ernie Conover

 Ernie Conover is a veteran woodworking author with eight books, many videos and hundreds of articles to his credit. He is also a lathe designer having developed his own lathe, and worked on the designs of the Nova and the Powermatic 3520b Ernie teaches at Conover Workshops a craft school run by he and his wife Susan. He also lectures widely for clubs, trade show groups and woodworking stores and is frequently called upon as a consultant and expert witness in the woodworking field.

ConoverWorkshops.Com


Chris Schwarz

   Christopher Schwarz is the editor of Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine, a contributing editor to The Fine Tool Journal - a quarterly that covers hand tools - and a woodworking instructor at several schools. Chris trained as a newspaper journalist and graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1990 and earned a master's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.

Chris joined the staff of Popular Woodworking magazine in 1996 as managing editor, worked his way up to editor and helped establish Woodworking Magazine in 2004. Since joining the staff of the magazine, Chris has expanded the coverage of hand work - though he uses both hand tools and machinery in his own work.

He's also hosted five DVDs on hand tools that were produced by Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and has taught hand skills at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking, Kelly Mehler's School of Woodworking and the Northwest Woodworking Studio.

www.popularwoodworking.com.		  


Phil Lowe

  Phil Lowe has been involved with woodworking since 1968 and is the author of many articles in "Fine Woodworking Magazine". He is featured in the "Time Life" series on woodworking and in videos with The Taunton Press on " Carve a Ball and Claw Foot", "Making a Sheraton Bed" and most recently, "Measuring Furniture for Reproduction". His teaching experience includes ten years (1975 -1985) as an instructor at Boston's North Bennett Street School, where he was positioned as department head for the latter five.

Since 1985 Phil has operated a furniture making and restoration shop in Beverly, MA, producing work for the private sector and museums throughout North America. In 1997 Phil started The Furniture Institute of Massachusetts which offers hands-on classes in all facets of traditional furniture making. Phil has been a visiting instructor and demonstrator at various schools and woodworking organizations throughout the United States and Canada.		  



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