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woodworking
Every blog article tagged woodworking.
December 7, 2023
From Russia to America, and What I Carve Now
Alexander Grabovetskiy is a master wood carver, born in 1973 in Dimitrovgrad in the Russian part of the Soviet Union. His great-grandfather built mahogany furniture in the Chippendale style. He ruined his own grandfather's chisel on a brick at six, became the only student of the carver Vladimir Tokarev at sixteen, and reached the United States as a refugee on 15 March 1996 with almost no English. He built the woodworking firm Aalmark in Indiana, hired other refugee woodworkers, then sold every machine to carve full time. In 2012 a panel called Wall Decoration took first place and made him International Woodcarver of the Year.
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September 19, 2023
Is wood carving good for your brain? What the science actually found
Craft work most weeks meant 22 percent less risk of memory trouble in a study of 1,929 adults over 70. Four studies in plain English, what each one really measured, and how a master carver sets up a session that keeps working your brain after your hands go automatic.
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