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Logging the Urban Forest

Altadena Heritage is hosting a presentation on how to use locally-downed trees for woodworking.

The presentation will include discussion on lumberjacking logs, types of wood, and making useful objects like custom furniture, pen, and instruments.

The presenters include Rich Benson, an urban lumberjack, Robert Hilton, an instrument builder, Bill Peplow, a pen maker, and William Stranger, a furniture maker.

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Benson was profiled in .  A custom-made bench he built can be viewed on right.


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