Albuquerque Woodworkers Association (AWA) Workshop

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Mark Levin – Sculptor and Furniture Maker March 15, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

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You do not have to be a member of the AWA to come to the presentation.

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Located at North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center

7521 Carmel Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113

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Past and Present Woodworking Movers & Shakers:

From Castle, Maloof, McKie to Fish, Walsh, Beer, Crowther, plus about thirty other international wood artists at the top of their game.

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Interspersed with Mark’s self-righteous, politically incorrect, lightly erudite, solvent-based filler containing:

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• Wood ugly. Woodworking and why some people shouldn’t.
 

• Spreadsheets and moisture meters, the perfect Meet-Cute.

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• Wood moves. Deal with it!

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• Lusting for models.

 

• High gloss finishes. Nyet!

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• Why drowning live-edge wood in epoxy resin is not woodworking, but knowing it would make James Krenov’s testicles shrivel back into his scrotum warms my heart.

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• Be nice to metal woodworkers; they hold the answer to working with live-edge slabs.

 

• 3-D modeling and pencils can be friends.

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• Glue and divorce. Know when it’s time to turn in the old for something new.

 

• South Korea, more than kimchi.

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• Why pulling the price for your work out of your ass is not considered a proper accounting protocol.

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• Embracing AI. The next technological ice-box moment in woodworking. Hats off to Louy M.

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• Why it is not considered flattery to the original maker/designer to rip off their designs, or why I lobbied Sam Maloof to hire Roy Cohn.

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• And why we might look to the Mafia or Ray Donovan to solve the above flattery issue efficiently and definitively.

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• You had me at Shaper Origin. The irony of it all, from the antimachine ideology of the 1960s to lubing up your 21st-century 3-D printers and CNC equipment, turning them to maximum RPM, and riding them back into the future.