Jimmy Carter's Woodshop

Here's a old video I found that shows President Jimmy Carter in his woodshop-Good Stuff!



Jimmy Carter

Best Known For:
39th President of the United States
Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2002

Loves:

Peanuts

Homebuilding
Construction Experience:

Habitat for Humanity

Furniture/Cabinet Maker

Currently:

Bestselling Author

Builds and auctions furniture to advance human rights

and alleviate human suffering.

Favorite Tools:

Drawknife, Spokeshave

Sensitive Carpenter Level:

Very High

Holiday Gifts Ideas: Great Book by Cedric Pollet

Cedric Pollett, a photographer from Nice France, has assembled an amazing book of photographs of bark from trees around the world.

A great holiday gift for carpenters, wood enthusiasts, nature lovers or anyone who appreciates beautiful things.

Bark: An Intimate Look at the World's Trees

Holiday Gifts: Great Book: Julian Beever

I was in my local bookstore and thumbed through this book and was amazed. Julian Beever is crazy. His 3 dimensional mind bending pavement art is something to see.

Thanksgiving Foam Turkey

 Although Thanksgiving is over, I'm still thinking about turkey.  Here's a job I did for the 11th Street Workshop where I sculpted a 10 ft. tall  foam turkey for a magazine photo shoot.  I think I will see this turkey in my dreams.....

Production Design for Low Budget Film

I recently made a short film called "Art Space" with my friends. Sets were designed and built with very little money to do so. Much of the materials were salvaged items from the street and others were scraps in my shop. I converted my shop into a makeshift soundstage complete with a 2x4 and broomstick lighting grid. Craft services was off to the side on my table saw.

I made a paper mache tree, a mobile, cut out paper birds and a lot of other props & set pieces with found materials. It just goes to show that a lot of great things can be made and found with very little expense to anything but the imagination.