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The Flowing Forms of
Furniture Artist & Sculptor Sabiha
Mujtaba
Blending her talents as a master craftsperson and designer, Sabiha Mujtaba creates original custom wood furniture and art pieces. While adhering to the functional principles of furniture making, Sabiha's primary focus is on the aesthetic relationship between rigid and flowing forms. Her work is influenced by her South Asian heritage and by her love of nature and organic forms.
Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Sabiha was raised and educated in London, England. She moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1981 where she apprenticed at Sutherland Studios, a nationally renowned custom furniture studio. In 1986 she opened her own studio, Chrysalis Woodworks, which today operates from the basement garage of her home.
Sabiha's work is part of several private collections and has been exhibited in various shows, galleries, museums and publications. She has also been a featured artist on the Discovery Channel's "Lynette Jenning Designs," a nationwide televised program on homes and interiors.
Visit her website at
www.chrysaliswoodworks.com.
Highland Hardware is pleased
to present Sabiha's class, "Introduction to Relief Carving",
this month, and her workshop, "Sculptural Studio Furniture
Carving", in the Tage Frid Seminar Room this October. We had
the opportunity to speak with Sabiha from her studio in
Clarkston, Georgia.
Read our interview with
Sabiha
View a slideshow of
Sabiha's work
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Calling Atlanta
Turners
The Georgia Association of
Woodturners
(GAW) is dedicated to providing
education, information and organization to those
interested in woodturning. GAW services those in the
metro-Atlanta area.
We meet on the third Thursday of
each month at 7pm at Highland Hardware. Meetings are
open to all.
Enter through the loading dock at the
rear of the building and go upstairs. Remember, Highland
Hardware closes at 6pm, so come early to shop!
www.gawoodturner.com
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Alan Noel's Finishing
Corner
Blotching &
Washcoats
One of the most frustrating aspects
of finishing wood is achieving an even color when
staining large areas on pieces such as dressers,
bookcases, chests and tabletops.
Blotching can be a
problem when staining softer woods such as pine or
aspen, and can also be particularly troublesome on the
harder woods such as maple and birch.
To avoid these
problems there are a couple of steps that can be taken
to control the amount of blotching that occurs, or at
least keep it to a bare minimum.
First, evenly sand
all areas to be stained, repeating all steps in all
areas. Second, prior to staining, apply a "washcoat" of
some type to keep the stain penetration even over the
entire surface. One such ready-made product is
Minwax Pre-Stain
Wood Conditioner
(8545988). Or, you can make
your own by thinning out a finishing material such as
shellac, lacquer or varnish to the consistency of water.
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Ask the
Staff
E-mail us at
woodnews@highlandhardware.com
with your woodworking or finishing questions. Selected
questions will be answered in future issues. If your
question is selected for publication, we'll send you a
free Highland Hardware hat.
Question:
I have a client wanting a dining table
with virtually no finish, but she also favors wood
species with fairly large pores like jatoba, padauk and
wenge. My concern is finding a finish that offers some
protection from the inevitable spills, but also one that
will be food safe and easily maintained. Additionally,
it must prevent food from lodging in the pores in order
to avoid stains, bacteria, etc., but have the look of an
old linseed oil finish.
Does such a product
exist? Any suggestions would be much
appreciated.
Answer
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Hot New
Item
Shop
Smock
$49.99
Some of us
remember our fathers and shop teachers donning a shop
coat before working in the shop. While not necessarily
stylish, the shop coats were very practical. Today many
woodturners and carvers wear smocks as a smart way to
protect their street duds while in the shop.
Our shop
smock is made from lightweight nylon and has an open
mesh under the arms to keep you cool. With a zippered
front, this full-cut garment is easy to put on and take
off. When zipped up all the way, the stretch fabric on
the back of the collar allows it to fit snugly but
comfortably around your neck to keep out wood chips. A
large flap-covered shirt pocket adorns the front of the
smock along with our hand plane logo. Two more handy
pockets are cleverly located on the back to prevent them
from getting filled with dust and chips.
Item#
199901
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From the
Wood News
Archives
The following article was originally
published in
Wood News
No. 16, Fall 1985.
Japanese Woodworkers
by Tom Frazer
In Kyoto, Japan,
a few supreme artisans such as woodworker Isaburo Wada still
ply their craft in a timeless tempo known as "Kyoto
time".
For more than a thousand years, Kyoto was the
capital of Japan. As such, her rulers attracted the most
skilled artisans, and slowly, over the centuries, the city
became a repository of the highest expression of artistic
endeavor.
By good fortune, I was invited to Japan last
fall by that country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was
able to meet Wada and other Japanese woodworkers, as well as
most of the master toolmakers of Miki
City.
More
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Highland Hardware Fall Tent Sale &
Tool Festival
Saturday, October 22,
2005
9am - 4pm
Rain or Shine!
Highland Hardware
1045
N. Highland Ave., NE
Atlanta, Georgia
30306
You're invited to spend a festive day
with us as we host our semi-annual tent sale and tool
demonstration. We'll have vendors on hand showing off
their latest & greatest products, as well as sale
pricing on hundreds of our most popular items, free
refreshments, free demonstrations and door
prizes.
The wealth of restaurants and shops in
Virginia-Highlands will keep the whole family fed &
entertained all day, so pack everybody in the car and
come on down to your favorite woodworking
store!
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We Invite You to Contribute to
Wood News Online
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Dear Woodworker,
We hope you enjoy
receiving and reading
Wood News Online
. It's one of the
many ways in which we work to manifest our vision statement
for Highland Hardware, "A Learning Community that Fosters the
Joy of Woodworking and a Passion for Excellence."
You
can be a part of this vision! We actively solicit relevant
articles for
Wood News Online
from our readers and
customers. Whether it be a first-person review of one of our
tools, the description of a special technique which has worked
for you, or an interesting or funny story involving your own
woodworking shop, we invite you to submit it to us to consider
for publication.
We pay $100 (in the form of a store
gift certificate) for a thousand-word article with photos.
More details are
inside.
Happy woodworking,
Chris
Bagby, Owner
Highland Hardware
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