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unusual facts about woodworking


Rocking horse

Mostly built by hobby woodcrafters, and ranging from relatively crude to finely ornamented and the toys of future kings, it was not until the late 19th century that the production became industrialised.


Architectural Woodwork Institute

AWI has published a Standard of Care for woodworking since 1961, called the Quality Standards Illustrated.

Boita

The recovery of many woodworking adzes and other artifacts from Chilika Lake shows that Golabai was a boat-building center.

Desert Oasis High School

Some of the classes offered in these programs include: accounting, woodworking, marketing, sports medicine, and sports, entertainment, and recreational marketing.

Eagle Butte High School

The school now offers a full range of high school programs, from welding, woodworking and firearm safety to cosmetology, food studies and computers (both Macintosh and IBM).

Giuseppe Bernardo Lecchi

Originally from a Piedmontese village near Alessandria, Lecchi showed great talent for woodworking at a young age.

Grevillea robusta

Before the advent of aluminium, Grevillea robusta timber was widely used for external window joinery, as it is resistant to wood rot.

Ketchikan High School

The school's woodworking department made an appearance in the "Alaska Special 2" episode of MythBusters, where Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman used the shop as the build site for their pykrete boat.

Kim Bồng woodworking village

In more recent years, woodworking as a profession fell out of favour with young people, mainly due to poor returns: the average income of a woodworker in Kim Bồng is about VND 1.5 million (US$85) per month.

Léonce Perret

His parents owned a woodworking shop on Yver Street in Niort, France.

Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House

Surrounding rooms have many intact original features and woodwork, including two Adamesque mantels supported by fluted pilasters.

Matsumoku

Matsumoku began in Matsumoto, Japan, as a family owned woodworking business that specialized in building tansu and butsudan.

Moringa community

In March 2007, Abubakar “Abu” Abdulai contacted Jeffry Lohr from an Internet Cafe in Cape Coast, a city in Ghana, West Africa, hoping to study at Jeffry’s Lohr woodworking school in Pennsylvania so that he could gain skills that would help him develop his country.

Jeffry conceived the idea to engineer woodworking equipment that will innovatively transform readily obtainable hand held power tools into efficient, Western production equipment.

Piedmont Middle School

Semester- and year-long electives offered include foreign language, ASB, drama, art, ceramics, woodshop, music (band and orchestra), filmmaking, Green Team, Shakespeare, and computer arts and graphics.

Pittsburgh, Kingston

It includes the east side of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills (site of the infamous Shafia family murders), hosts a handful of motels serving Ontario Highway 15 and former Ontario Highway 2, a federal prison (Pittsburgh and Joyceville Institutions in Joyceville, Ontario) and three museums (Military Communications and Electronics Museum, RMC Museum and McLaughlin Woodworking Museum).

Pravenec

The new part of Pravenec was founded in the 1940´s shortly after the Baťa woodworking factory was established.

Sage Type 3

In 1916, the British Admiralty placed a contract with Frederick Sage & Co, a Peterborough based woodworking company which had become an aircraft contractor for the Royal Navy, to design and build a primary trainer for the Royal Naval Air Service.

Seabury Hall

The fair features over 100 of Hawaii's artists and crafters - woodworkers, traditional Hawaiian artists, jewelers, ceramists, and weavers.

St. Pantaleon-Weyer concentration camp

Corresponding to these guidelines, persons classified as “disagreeable” were consequently brought into the camp; So for example Karl Grumpelmaier from Mauthausen, the manager of a big woodworking business, because he refused to purchase a banner of the German Labor Front.

Taunton Press

Taunton Press has published for some of the most well-known names in their specialities, such as Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking and the Sam Maloof DVD.

Toni Gilbert

The Made in Jefferson gallery phase of the business drew local and national attention and was showcased in three Taunton Press books: Design Book Five, The Workbench Book and The Workshop Book, one issue of Fine Woodworking magazine and they made the cover of Better Homes and Gardens.

Ust-Kamchatsk

There is a sea port, a fish-processing plant (FPP 66), a few woodworking factories, and Ust-Kamchatsk Airport (opened in 1937) in Ust-Kamchatsk.


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