This post is just to call your attention to a blog I wrote last week: https://www.finewoodworking.com/item/19849/call-for-submissions-get-design-help-from-fine-woodworking-and-hank-gilpin.
Here’s the gist. Here’s a chance to have your work critiqued by a long-time professional woodworker, Hank Gilpin. Hank is a gifted designer and craftsman, and can really help you improve your design skills. We’re looking for 4 pieces of furniture. We’d like Hank to be able to look at two in person (at his shop in RI). We’ll have professional photos taken of the other two and Hank will base his critique on those photos.
Read all the details, as well as some submission guidelines, in the blog linked above.
Thanks.
Matt K. / assoc. editor / Fine Woodworking
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Forgive me for asking but, Who is Hank Gilpin ? Is there a site to look at his stuff ? Am I the only one who has not heard of Hank ?
Dusty, I used this Google search to find info about him. His work has been in a number of galleries it seems. Browsing through the results, you can pick up some bio info also (Tage Frid connection, degree from Rhode Island School of Design in the 70's). I didn't have time to delve into the various hits, but that'll get you started.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
No need to apologize, not every great furniture maker is well-known in the woodworking community.Hank has been making furniture since the 1970s. He has been in the magazine, including the back cover, several times. Here is a link to a feature we did about him: https://www.finewoodworking.com/Workshop/WorkshopPDF.aspx?id=2929.Also, if you use our search you'll find quite a bit more, including some of his furniture.Matt Kenney / assoc. editor / Fine Woodworking
Edited 10/14/2009 10:53 am ET by MKenney
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