Gary A. Leake Woodworking

08/25/2024

Looking forward to the 20th Anniversary of "Woodpalooza" Exhibition; Labor Day weekend (Aug 31 - Sept 2, Noon - 5pm daily; plus Artist Reception Friday, Aug 30, 5pm)

08/25/2024

01/26/2019

A recent table of birdseye maple and black walnut. About to begin on a table of misquite

11/08/2018

This coming Sunday (Nov 11) I will be demonstrating hand-cut mortise and tenon joined at the Wood Merchant, LaConner from 10ish AM until 4 PM. And I will be discussing how I created this coffee table...

05/20/2018

I was recently honored to be interviewed by Daniel Carter, who does a podcast about all things wooden. I had a lot of fun and had an opportunity to talk about my work and passion for wood. Give it a listen...

The direct link to your episode is http://itswood.libsyn.com/gary-a-leake-woodworker

The link to my main website is www.itswood.com

On this episode I am spending time with Gary Leake on whidbey Island A woodworker whose passion is to search the countryside for a special one-of-a-kind, piece of timber, be it cherry (a favorite), maple, walnut or cocobolo, that has character (meaning highly figured, tigered spalted, etc) and....

12/23/2015

Recently we completed one of the most beautiful fireplace mantles that we've seen. The tiger maple plank was absolutely stunning against the stone face!

08/03/2015

Sandy and I had a very busy and successful weekend at this year's Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival! The weather was a bit warm but in the afternoon a cool ocean breeze drifted in to mix with the freshly baked waffle cone aroma from Kapaw's Ice Cream shop. We have a few weeks to get ready for the last show of the season, the 12th Annual "Art + Wood = Woodpalooza" Exhibition Show held over Labor Day weekend. Visit Woodpalooza.com for details.

08/03/2015

01/10/2015

Wow, what a busy winter we are having. My wood-art tables are being featured in two exhibitions later this month: Cole Gallery, Edmonds and Brackenwood Gallery, Langley. I hope that you can drop by as the galleries don't charge you to come in and view - they only charge you to leave...

06/25/2010

Today I worked on a couple of new art gallery pieces - one of rare birdseye Pacific yew and the other of ziricote and walnut. Great potential and a blast to create...

06/24/2010

"The Butterfly" Walnut TIlt-Top Table