Design your own "Gingerbread" porch

[Jimmy C.]

The Porch Builder program
http://www.cumberlandwoodcraft.com/porchbuilder/

It came from this web site
http://www.cumberlandwoodcraft.com/index.htm


Look at the current projects

http://www.cumberlandwoodcraft.com/currentprojects.htm

[glenn kangiser]

This reminds me of The Blue Ox millworks here in Eureka, CA.

I met Eric once a few years ago.  He restores Victorians and promotes use of old methods and machinery as well as worked with the local school kids to make a car that burned wood to run a standard internal combustion engine (wood gas generator).  

His mill is a great place to tour if you get near there.

http://www.blueoxmill.com/



Eureka Times-Standard (California) -- July 13, 2005 Wednesday.
There's a little bit of Humboldt County adorning the recently renovated Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento -- the state's new center of diplomatic function. The Blue Ox Millworks crafted doors, trims and curved moldings for the former governor's residence, where a gala dedication was held Monday after a $20 million renovation. The millworks --owned by Eric and Viviana Hollenbeck -- is one of eight Victorian woodworking shops in the country. The Hollenbecks have built a table for President Bill Clinton and their custom historic reproductions are in houses, churches and other landmarks across the nation.

His school is something too---teaching kids trades rather than how to be hoodlums.

http://www.blueoxmill.com/school.htm


     Sharing Knowledge

In 1991, the Blue Ox Millworks began hosting area students for the first time.  Through a partnership with the Humboldt Office of Education, this program was expanded in 1999 to include a full time high school.  Students of the Blue Ox spend three days of their week in a regular classroom setting, and spend the remainder of their days at the Ox participating in project based learning.  After 4-6 years they graduate with a regular high school diploma and a valuable trade.  Many of our students go on to become carpenters, cabinetmakers, blacksmiths or mill workers, keeping valuable skills alive and becoming an integral part of our community.