Lee Buchanan
FEATURED APPEARANCE: Wednesday, October 15th at 7pm
Lee Buchanan got her first taste of woodworking in the Kids' Carpentry
program in Berkeley, California, at the age of seven. The passion
stuck, and after stints as a scenic carpenter, then building science
exhibits at the Exploratorium museum, she met a guy named Nick and
spent a decade running his LA woodshop, designing and building
furniture and carving a whole lot of mustache combs. Lee now lives
back in the Bay Area, where she builds custom furniture as LeeBuild,
draws cartoons, bakes bread, and makes fun stuff for and with her two
little boys in their home woodshop.
FEATURED BOOK: Little Woodchucks: Offerman Woodshop's Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery
From New York Times bestselling author, Emmy-winning actor, and charismatically carnivorous woodworker Nick Offerman, an illustrated woodworking guide with projects for the whole family
In his long running hit book Good Clean Fun, Nick Offerman brought us into his woodshop with personal reflections on woodworking alongside instructions to create some of his favorite projects. Now, in Little Woodchucks, the Offerman Woodshop is opening its avuncular doors to woodworkers of all ages in the form of twelve brand-new, family-friendly projects perfect for kids, from beginner projects like a handmade box kite to more challenging offerings like a little free library / meat locker.
Combining his signature wry humor with clearly written and joyfully illustrated project instructions, Little Woodchucks is the perfect way to encourage eye contact and other old-fashioned familial engagements, while introducing young woodworkers-to-be to the satisfaction and good, clean fun of hands-on crafting.