
Woodworker Nick Stagg lives in rural Oregon, where he operates
Moonraker Turning from his farm-based studio. Using
reclaimed wood whenever possible, Nick shapes rough pieces of wood into beautiful,
turned wood bowls, vessels, and vases. I recently had the chance to ask Nick about the craft of woodturning, and he explained the ins and outs of the craft.

Oakland-based design-building studio
Because We Can was hired by
SunPower to create furniture for their new office in an old Ford manufacturing building in Richmond, CA. This enormous, potential-filled pile of lumber had been taken out of the building and slated to be dumped, but the studio stepped in, deciding the wood could be reclaimed to build something new. After mulling it over, they "decided that benches were the most feasible idea to use the lumber and keep costs down."