Rick Arnold has over thirty years of experience in hands-on, residential and light commercial contracting in New England. His experience includes remodeling, framing, Energy Star construction, and concrete work. Rick is a contributing editor for Fine Homebuilding. He has also authored numerous articles and books on home construction and remodeling.
He uses empirical knowledge, gained by means of observation, experience or experiment, to frame buildings from the ground line Z1 , to roof axis A1 , to the bring-back line for scribing B1. Sim is a second generation carpenter. He is passing on the family tradition to his two sons Brian and Erik. His online tools can be found on the web at www.
Jim and his wife Roxanne also of 35 years divide their time between their home among the red rock canyons of Southern Utah and their foot sailboat, docked in Long Beach, California. Jim says that he and Roxanne also got off to a pretty good start by eloping and sailing away on a foot sloop. Ken truly enjoys working with molding and trim work. A true believer in education, Ken takes every opportunity to educate himself and his clients on new trends and techniques. He started woodworking when he was a 4-year-old using wooden Orange boxes to make a camper for his Tonka dump truck, and has the scars to provide it.
First project, first band-aid. He was a theater technician set construction , lumber salesperson, tool sales person at Lee Valley Tools, and taught adult continuing education night school classes for many years before he become a certified teacher.
He is always building or fixing something. He has discovered a love for teaching people about anything wood-related, watching them grow and increase their skill set. This passion for teaching can be seen in Ask the Woodshop Teacher , a monthly newsletter. Mike Boden is a re-recording mixer at 20th Century Fox, where he has worked since With over twenty years of experience in the film industry, Mike has also held positions at Universal Pictures, Sony Entertainment, and several other smaller studios.
