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14 Jul. 1995Hawaiian woodwork,3d wood project designer,electric wood carving tools ireland,wooden toy box designs - Within MinutesFrank Pullano Woodworking offers traditional and contemporary handcrafted Koa furniture and canoe paddles. About HWGThe Hawaii Wood Guild is a volunteer membership organization dedicated to increasing awareness for the art of fine woodworking and for Hawaii's forests.Working with a log found in Kalihi Valley and with help form the Hawaiian immersion charter school Halau Lokahi, McD is creating a canoe named after Ku the god of the forrest and canoe builders and husband of Lea. His Hawaiian-Scottish ancestry has also inspired designs of turned and polished traditional bowls made of native Hawaiian woods.  When he first began woodworking, he used indigenous koa and other island woods almost exclusively – much of it salvaged where ever he could find it. Philpotts is currently developing the resources that lie in green waste in order to benefit other Hawaiian artists with materials and training. Pullano Woodworking is located on the island of Kauai, considered the "Garden Isle" of the Hawaiian island chain. But after entering the annual Wood Show in 1997 sponsored by Hawaii Forest Industry Association, he was encouraged by the organization's mission statement which urged artists and craftsmen to use other exotic tropical woods and thereby lessen the impact on native species.  It is here on Kauai that Frank Pullano creates his own unique style of Koa outrigger canoe paddles and custom fine furniture featuring curly Koa wood mostly grown in the rain forests of the big island of Hawaii. Koa trees, native to the Hawaiian Islands, can be found primarily at high altitudes on the Big Island.  |
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