Where is Glen Huey

[Ron foley]

Does anyone know where Glen went after his last adventure with 360 woodworking? I would like to contact him or him contact me. Thanks in advance and Have a BLESSED DAY

[Mark Rainey]

Ron, I heard a couple of weeks ago he had moved back to Pennsylvania, setting up shop in a small picturesque tourist town named Jim Thorpe. He is less than an hour from me & is offering several classes in the near future.

[Matt Bickford]

Ron, I heard a couple of weeks ago he had moved back to Pennsylvania, setting up shop in a small picturesque tourist town named Jim Thorpe. He is less than an hour from me & is offering several classes in the near future.

Chuck Bender has moved to Jim Thorpe, set up shop, and will be teaching classes, not Glen Huey.

[J. Greg Jones]

I was a member of Glen's 360 woodworking site, and when I received the email that the site was shutting down, it indicated that Glen was stepping away from woodworking. No mention of what he was going to do instead or where he was going to be located.

[Mark Rainey]

You are correct. I was mistaken.
Chuck Bender has moved to Jim Thorpe, set up shop, and will be teaching classes, not Glen Huey.

[Ron foley]

Thanks for the information.

[Jerry Olexa]

Sorry to hear this..Glen is a very talented WWer originally from Ohio ..I've built several of his pieces and have couple of his books.
I think there was a strange separation of people at Popular Woodworking magazine a few years ago..He was a regular contributing editor and his departure there ,along with others, was sudden and unexplained. I always admired his work and approach. If he is leaving WWing behind, it is a big loss for our craft....Very sorry to hear.

[Simon MacGowen]

You are correct. I was mistaken.
Few people know about this: Chuck Bender has built hundreds of furniture pieces including tables, chairs, grandfather's clocks etc. No one at PW, now or past, has had furniture making business close to his. He is in the league of Philip Lowe and the like.

Simon

[Jerry Olexa]

I see also that Glen was doing classes for "woodworking with Ron" in New Holland, Ohio...Classes were scheduled through Dec 2018...Perhaps no longer there too.

[Robert LaPlaca]

Few people know about this: Chuck Bender has built hundreds of furniture pieces including tables, chairs, grandfather's clocks etc. No one at PW, now or past, has had furniture making business close to his. He is in the league of Philip Lowe and the like.

Simon

Indeed.

IIRC, Chuck Bender was a craftsman at the now defunct Irion Furniture company. Irion Furniture built some of the most outrageous 18th century reproduction furniture..

[Pete Taran]

Interesting. I grew up in Lycoming county, PA, and Lou's lumber company was just up the road. My Dad who recently retired sells figured curly maple just like Irion. They compete for the same sources in the same area. My brother decided to pick up the mantle. Ever wonder how someone could score a fantastic URL like curlymaple.com? Be the first to start selling lumber on the internet back in 1996!

[Simon MacGowen]

Indeed.

IIRC, Chuck Bender was a craftsman at the now defunct Irion Furniture company. Irion Furniture built some of the most outrageous 18th century reproduction furniture..

Anyone who is interested in talking to Chuck, or seeing his hand skills, he is doing the Woodworking Shows in Jan. Baltimore. Very approachable. Not sure if Glen will be there, too (they used to be).

Many people claim themselves to be bespoke furniture makers after making a few dozen pieces by hand. When you compare their work to Chuck's, you will know how skillful Chuck is. He is younger than Paul Sellers, but he has probably produced five to six times more heirloom furniture pieces under his belt than Sellers.

Simon

[Charles Bender]

First, Simon, thank you for all your kind words. To be mentioned in the same paragraph with Phil Lowe, and Paul Sellers (and yes, I'm younger than both), in a flatteringly comparative way is truly an honor. Both are tremendous craftsmen.

Robert, I did work at Irion Company and was in charge of case and chair production as well as making many of their one-off pieces before I left in 1991 (maybe I'm not younger than Phil or Paul now that I type that...). I was there from fairly early on in their history and I'm proud of the fact that I'm the one who got them to break out of their understated Chester County Queen Anne furniture mode when I pushed a couple of my customers toward a Philadelphia pie crust table – the first "formal" pieces with ball & claw feet made at the company back when Irion Company Furnituremakers was merely Louis A. Irion III, Cabinetmaker.

I'm not sure where Glen is these days, it's been an exceptionally busy time for me since I left 360 and I haven't had much of a chance to keep in touch with anyone. What I can tell you is, for the last 6 or 8 years at least, Glen has talked on and off about starting a restaurant in the Cincinnati area. So, if there's a new hot dog or breakfast joint in the West Chester, Ohio area you might just find Glen somewhere in the place (hopefully as something other than a customer).

And I'll be on tour again with The Woodworking Shows in 2019. I had so much fun in 2018, I had to do it again. Unless I get myself fired, I should be at all 13 of the shows again this year teaching a few of the skills I've learned and developed throughout my career. As always, if you can make it to any of the shows, please stop by my booth and introduce yourself. In the 10 years I've been doing the shows, I've found I enjoy meeting Lumberjocks, 'Netters, and Creekers nearly as much as I enjoy woodworking (possibly more).

[Glen Huey]

The rumors of my departure are overly exaggerated. For the past months I have been working on projects for former customers, and building a reproduction of George Washington's desk for my brother (a long process when the project keeps getting interrupted). I have completed an article for Wood Magazine and have just wrapped up and delivered a second. Also, I am teaching at Weekend With Wood in May of this year, and will be visiting the Triangle Woodworker Association in North Carolina this weekend for a two day class with a group presentation on Friday.Sounds busy to me. There are no restaurants in my immediate future. If you would like to reach me, Ron, I'm around. Please let me know how to do that. Your old email address did not work.

[Bill Houghton]

Wandering off the topic: Dang, Jim Thorpe, PA, with fewer than 5,000 people as of the last census, has got three museums! That town takes its history right seriously.

[J. Greg Jones]

The rumors of my departure are overly exaggerated...
Well, I believe that the only one that commented in this thread on your departure was me, and I was just repeating what you stated in the email sent out to subscribers that 360Woodworking was shutting down and you were stepping away from woodworking.

[Ron foley]

Glen try ronfoley77@yahoo.com

[Ron foley]

Glen you can also e-mail me via foleywoodworks.com

[Ron Bontz]

Speaking for myself, I would someday love to take some lessons from Glen and Chuck. I spoke with Chuck briefly at the St. Louis show. Always a pleasure to chat with them. I just don't get out of my squirrel cage much. Injury, Illness, etc. have taken a toll the last couple of years. Hence very little saw making.
Glen,
Would love to hear from you and have your email addy for future reference.
Thank you,
Ron
P.S. A recent hard drive crash, to put it lightly, has left me with no contact info for anyone. The hard drive took that with it. :(

[carey mitchell]

Sorry to hear this..Glen is a very talented WWer originally from Ohio ..I've built several of his pieces and have couple of his books.
I think there was a strange separation of people at Popular Woodworking magazine a few years ago..He was a regular contributing editor and his departure there ,along with others, was sudden and unexplained. I always admired his work and approach. If he is leaving WWing behind, it is a big loss for our craft....Very sorry to hear.


I just downloaded some project plans from Popular Woodworking and was amazed that I could pick Glen's projects by sight from a dozen on each page. I have built a number of his creations and have just been commissioned to build the Queen Anne Dressing Table - again. The first one is in a state historic site.

Glen and I corresponded for a while up until the 360 shut down. I was always amazed that he got back to me with an answer within minutes. I went through the PW site and downloaded all his plans, 'cause the quality is gone from that magazine and I wanted to make sure I had everything I wanted before it goes under. (their customer service is a joke - I called today about my password and they had no clue - the girl told me to call the number she was talking on!

I agree that Glen's move is a loss to us all.

[Frederick Skelly]

I have built a number of his creations and have just been commissioned to build the Queen Anne Dressing Table - again. The first one is in a state historic site.


Hi Carey,
Is this a paying commission or a freebie? If it's for profit, you might need to ask permission, and Glenn's permission might not be enough. Im guessing that PWW owns those plans, as Glenn was probably in their employ at the time they posted on the website.

Not trying to rain on your parade, and Im sure knock offs happen all the time. But it came to mind and I wanted to mention it.

I'd love to see pics of the item you made for the historic site. It must be quite nice.

Fred

[Gary Ragatz]

Fred,

You raise an interesting question that had never occurred to me before (I don't expect I'll ever sell something I've built, so not a critical issue for me). I googled around a bit, and came across one site selling plans that is very explicit about the limits on what can be done using plans purchased from them: https://www.thewinfieldcollection.com/copyrights . They seem mostly concerned with not having their designs mass produced, and receiving appropriate credit in marketing materials.

I couldn't find anything similar on Popular Woodworking's web site, but it might be there - or maybe there is some language included in the plans themselves. Might be worthwhile for Carey to do a little digging.

Gary

[Charles Guest]

Legalities somewhat aside, anybody producing detailed plans of classic furniture forms, and not expecting them to be occasionally reproduced by others for money, is completely delusional.

Good luck copyrighting a Queen Anne dining chair. I could buy these in varying levels of quality of execution from at least five sources ranging from single-man artisan workshops all the way up to fairly large volume producers, and all within an hour's drive of where I live.

[carey mitchell]

Hi Carey,
Is this a paying commission or a freebie? If it's for profit, you might need to ask permission, and Glenn's permission might not be enough. Im guessing that PWW owns those plans, as Glenn was probably in their employ at the time they posted on the website.

Not trying to rain on your parade, and Im sure knock offs happen all the time. But it came to mind and I wanted to mention it.

I'd love to see pics of the item you made for the historic site. It must be quite nice.

Fred



I just now ran across this - almost a year later, while wondering what had happened to Glen.

No, this will go to my son for their house. I don't see how any magazine could hope to prevent anyone from producing one-offs; I mean, the articles are published for the explicit purpose of people building the pieces. A couple of issues; first of all, how would they ever know if it were not publicized? Second, I made several changes in the design of the lowboy; overall, it looks similar, but I used walnut instead of mahogany, used burl veneer on the drawer fronts, cockbead moldings, and a couple of other differences. And then, how would it look for a magazine to go after a woodworker for doing what the magazine advocates? That would be a marketing disaster.

Just my thoughts

CM

[Curt Harms]

I doubt one-offs or two-offs are much of a concern. Finding their exact design in Raymour & Flanigan or in a gallery they might have something to say.