Hugh Foster
Recently retired from 34 years as an English teacher in Manitowoc,
Wisconsin, Hugh Foster is a woodworker and author with over 30 years'
experience building custom furniture. With over 20 years as a tool
reviewer and consultant to several tool manufacturers, Hugh has
also published several tool manuals and four woodworking books:
- Biscuit Joiner Handbook(Sterling Publishing Company, 1989 and 1995)
- Making Wood Tables (Sterling Publishing Company,1994)
- Biscuit Joiner Basics (Sterling Publishing Company, 1996)
- Picture Framing Basics (Sterling Publishing Company, 1997)
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Additionally, he has published nearly 400 magazine articles which
appeared in these magazines at home and abroad:
- Building & Remodeling News
- American Woodworker
- Australian Woodworker
- Boy's Life
- CabinetMaker
- Craftsman at Home
- Creative Woodworks and Crafts
- FDM
- Fine Homebuilding
- Fine Woodworking
- Home Shop News
- More Woodturning
- National Association of Home and Workshop Writers Newsletter
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- Popular Woodworking
- School Shop News
- Today's Woodworker
- The Woodworker
- Whole Earth Review
- Wood News
- Woodcarving
- Woodshop News
- Woodturning
- Woodwork
- Woodworker
- Woodworker's Business News
- Workbench
- asktooltalk.com
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In 1996 he received Stanley's Golden Hammer Award (second prize)
for Biscuit Joiner Basics, published that year by Sterling
Publishing Company.
Contact Hugh through eMail at woodwriter@sbcglobal.net.
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