Class Evaluation Final payment Gift Certificates Mailing List	Tom McLaughlin Tom learned to appreciate the fine arts aspect of woodworking in his teens, but an apprenticeship with 73-year old P.A. “Pug” Moore launched his 18 years of making furniture professionally. Tom’s emphasis on combining exceptional materials with traditionally inspired designs has led to his work being acquired by notable museums. Tom has been featured in Traditional Home magazine, The New York Times, and Fine Woodworking magazine, and has received several design awards from the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. Tom has been teaching furniture making workshops for 8 years now. In addition, Tom serves as Chairman of the NH Furniture Masters Association. He also coordinates the NHFMA Prison program, through which inmates receive individual and workshop training as a rehabilitation effort. View Tom's Portfolio at www.customfurnituremaster.com. Click on "Furniture". Garrett Hack Garrett Hack’s earliest memories were of sawing and hammering, so naturally after pursuing civil engineering and architecture at Princeton thirty years ago he became a furniture maker. Later study at Boston University’s Program in Artisanry influenced his style of contemporary designs based on classic forms. Internationally known, his work and Federal inspired brick shop have been featured in The New York Times, Preservation, Home Furniture, and the back cover of Fine Woodworking. He is a contributing editor for Fine Woodworking and teaches classes throughout the country. Hand tools are integral to Garrett’s work; he wrote The Handplane Book and Classic Hand Tools (Taunton Press 1997, 1999) about these essential tools. View Garrett's work, and read his story by visiting the website for the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association. Clive Hamilton Clive is a skilled master woodcarver with 25 years experience, primarily in his native Jamaica. Clive now lives and works in Worcester, Massachusetts. His carving career began in 1979 with an apprenticeship under master woodcarver Erol Lecky. His high level of dedication to the craft and achievement earned him an advanced apprenticeship with master woodcarver Harold Brown. In Jamaica a skilled carver like Clive was in high demand. Through the 1980s and 90s he thrived in a production shop carving primarily 18th century styles which only deepened his knowledge base and increased his proficiency. During the last six years in the United States, Clive has taught various carving classes at places like Woodcraft in Woburn, Massachusetts, as well as demonstrated at North Bennett Street School in Boston. In addition to his carving skill Clive is a natural as a carving instructor. Peter Hindle Since 1960, Peter Hindle has been teaching as a qualified Craft & Design teacher at various educational institutions in the UK including Shoreditch College/Brunell University in Surrey; Wensleydale School in Yorkshire. In the midst of these appointments, Peter pursued further study in engineering and silversmithing at Brunell University, and Rural Crafts at Worcester University, where he later trained adult students to become teachers in Technical schools and colleges. In 1993 he set up his own company – Ashem Crafts. They now supply rotary planes and allied equipment to almost every continent in the world. He also has taught chairmaking to adults in various colleges in the UK and at Pleasant Hill Shaker Village in the USA. In 1997 he was invited to the Barbican Centre in London to teach a workshop on Shaker chairs. Terry Moore A Welshman who has lived in the States for nearly thirty years, Terry Moore paved the way for his ultimate vocation as a furniture master when, in 1976, he opened his own woodworking shop, designing and making custom kitchens, architectural woodwork, and musical instruments. When he began developing his own designs, he was soon showing his work at exhibitions throughout NH, as well as galleries in Boston and New York. Many awards for his pieces followed. Along with three other woodworkers, he formed the Guild of NH Woodworkers and was one of the six founding members of the NH Furniture Masters Association*. He has been published extensively and is actively involved with training inmates in woodworking at the NH State Prison. View Terry's work, and read his story by visiting the website for the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association. Graham Oakes Graham resides in Derry, NH where he turns in his little shop out behind the house. He started turning in 2004 and fell in love with it. His roots in turning stem from Pinkerton Academy where he started turning his Sophmore year of high school, under the direction of one of New England’s most renowned woodworking teachers, Jack Grube. He enjoys one of Americas largest and best equipped school-based woodshops. The second year in Mr.Grube's program, Graham was introduced to Beth Ireland who took their class of twelve students through a program called "Creative Enterprise." Beth is a world famous wood turner and teacher who guided the class in understanding not only how to turn, but also introduced them to marketing their wood products. This young man has quite a future ahead of him as he looks forward to honing his already developed skill in a studio he hopes to have one day, while establishing a future of teaching woodturning. He has already shown himself to be an excellent instructor, one we are thrilled to have join our team this year. View Graham's work, and read more of his story by visiting his website at www.turnatree.com Jon Siegel Jon Siegel has over forty years experience in woodturning. His work ranges from pool cues to porch posts. He moved to New Hampshire in 1978, as head of industrial arts at Proctor Academy, where he taught wood and metal working. Ten years later he set up his own shop to produce woodturnings for furniture and architectural applications. A frequent presenter and demonstrator for turning groups and national conferences, Siegel has invented and patented several innovative woodturning tools. Jon has also been published in Fine Woodworking, is the current President of the Granite State Woodturners, a founding member and past president of the Guild of NH Woodworkers, and a member of the NH Furniture Masters Association. View Jon's work, and read his story and read his story by visiting the website for the New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association.

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