Pamela Philpott-Jones is a furniture builder, cabinetmaker, woodworking instructor, and woodworking author in Denver, Colorado. Pamela began her woodworking career in 1990 as an apprentice for Paul McClure, a Master Cabinetmaker in Denver, with whom she co-authored her first book, Woodworking for the Serious Beginner (Cambium Press, 1995). She has developed and taught popular woodworking courses for women in the Denver area.

Lynn Porter was born in Chicago, where she started her education in art and drawing at the Gardener School of Art, where she won a scholarship at age six. She continued developing her artistic talents at Antelope Valley Junior College and Los Angeles Trade Technical College, where she received her degree in Technical Illustration. In 1984, she turned her attention to woodsculpting, completed her first commissioned work one year later, and has since entered her sculptures in art shows across the nation, placing well in all of them. Lynn has resided in Denver since 1979, and currently teaches woodcarving classes there.

Joanna Werch Takes is the associate editor of Woodworker's Journal magazine, where she oversees departments like "Shop Talk" and "Stumpers"--keeping up on what's happening in the woodworking world and finding answers to the questions woodworkers ask. Her alto is part of the "voice of the woodworking community."

Mary Lacer began her career as a wood turner in 1980, and has since turned over 90 different kinds of wood, domestic and exotic, to produce a number of large furniture items such as home entertainment centers, nightstands, patio chairs, and display stands, along with many smaller items: vases, lamps, plates, candle holders, bowls, patterns, miniatures, thimbles, pens, covered boxes, and artistic pieces. She has presented numerous wood turning demonstrations for woodworking students at career days and craft shows, written magazine articles on woodworking, and served as a wood turning assistant for five-day summer and Elderhostel classes at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In 1987, Ms. Lacer founded the Minnesota Woodturners Association, which has since grown to more than 100 members. She currently serves as Administrator for the Board of Directors for the American Association of Woodturners, a position she has held since 1990.

Carol Reed, member and past president of San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association, is a professional furniture builder, teacher, inventor, and an author with a 640 square foot shop in Ramona, CA. Along with the obligatory woodworking equipment of a table saw, jointer, planer, compound mitre saw, sanders and routers, her shop includes a Shopbot CNC router. Her work and shop have been featured in The Art of the Router by Patrick Spielman, Earn a Second Income From Your Woodworking by Garth Graves, Building Beautiful Chests by Garth Graves, and Setting Up Shop by Sandor Nagyszalanczy, along with numerous newspapers, church publications, and several magazines.

Her first woodworking experience was at the age of 7 when her grandfather put a plane to a piece of pine and taught her how to make pine 'curly ques'. The pungent scent ignited her love of woodworking.

Carol attended Palomar College and her final school project started her on her current business path. Her project involved building chancel furniture for a church in Escondido, CA. Chancel furniture is the altar, pulpit, lectern and other one of kind ecclesiastical furnishings. Her current business focus on chancel furniture satisfies both desires; to create custom pieces and participate in a personal ministry. Building the furnishings on site with volunteer help from the congregation allows her to teach woodworking, another passion.

Carol has taught beginning and intermediate woodworking, router classes, vacuum clamping systems, and woodworking business classes through Palomar College, retail woodworking stores and her own shop.

The last couple of years Carol has toured as a demonstrator and lecturer for the American Woodworker Shows around the country. Other shows, woodworking guilds and woodworking stores nation wide have invited Carol to speak about routers, bits and jigs. In fact, it was the Orange County Woodworkers who dubbed Carol 'The Router Lady'.

Carol has developed a number of router jigs. The first was the BigFoot*, a large offset base with a real woodworker's handle. The Router*Trac is currently the flagship product. For more information e-mail Carol at carol@routerlady.com or check out her web site at www.routerlady.com.

A very busy lady, Carol's plans include completing a router joinery book, continuing with the shows, teaching router classes, on-going jig development, and custom church work. All in all, Carol loves what she does and can't envision dropping any of her current activities.

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