19th annual Woodworkers Show to return to Legion Hall in PT

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Posted 10/30/24

 

 

The 19th annual Port Townsend Woodworkers Show is set to return to town at the American Legion Post 26 Hall this weekend.

Seth Rolland of Custom Furniture Design …

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19th annual Woodworkers Show to return to Legion Hall in PT

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The 19th annual Port Townsend Woodworkers Show is set to return to town at the American Legion Post 26 Hall this weekend.

Seth Rolland of Custom Furniture Design explained the show will set out to honor not only the legacy and future of local woodworking, but also the memory of one of its founders.

This year’s show is dedicated to John Marckworth, who passed away in March, after a life in which he spent “much of his time teaching, mentoring, encouraging and promoting new and established woodworkers in the community,” according to Rolland.

Rolland described Marckworth as “a prolific and creative furniture and cabinet maker,” who demonstrated by example “how one could make a living doing what you love.”

In addition to starting the show, Marckworth was one of the three founders of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, and Rolland noted that “most” of the 23 exhibitors at the show are either alumni or faculty at the school.

Rolland touted those numbers as evidence of Marckworth’s efforts to teach woodworking skills to others, along with the self-described “Splinter Group” of organizers of the Woodworkers Show.

Not only will one of Marckworth’s coffee tables, and his portfolio, be featured at the show, but one of this year’s exhibitors is Katherine Pryde, a.k.a. KP, the newest member of the Splinter Group.

KP came to the Port Townsend School of Woodworking after a career as an emergency physician, but she had always enjoyed “tinkering and building things,” so by the time she’d completed her hand tools intensive at the school, “I was hooked.”

KP went on to complete the school’s final intensive, the “Art of Furniture,” during the spring of 2023.

“I enjoy the design process,” KP said. “I especially like Scandinavian design, as well as Asian styles that lean toward clean lines and subtle sophistication. It turns out that style already has a name — Japandi style.”

This year, KP will be showing a new curly maple dining table, featuring some complicated joinery, and Japanese-inspired boxes, using local Alder from the Jefferson Land Trust’s Valley View forest.

KP will be showing her new work alongside 25 other woodworkers, including furniture and cabinet-makers, luthiers, carvers, sculptors and turners.

The free show runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2, and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3.