Joe Brown

[Nick Gibbs]

Can anyone remember in which issue of Good Woodworking the singer Joe Brown was featured?

I am working on a piece about famous people who are or were also woodworkers. Any suggestions gratefully received, but for the moment I am trying to get hold of what I wrote about him!

Thanks

Nick

 

[Mr_P]

Don't qoute me but Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Corbyn ring a bell but my middle aged isn't what it was.

 

[Bm101]

Han Solo used to be chippy before he flew the millennium falcon.

 

[lurker]

Good to see you here Nick
Hope your recovery is progressing

 

[ColeyS1]

Jethro Gibbs- Mark Harmon

Coley

 

[Nick Gibbs]

Thanks. Things are getting better, mainly because I am finding a new way of living.

I am doing more woodworking, but more as therapy than as a living. So to give me a structure and to force me to get going for lack of time, I have become a Kitchen Porter in a local restaurant. I do six or eight hours a week washing up, which I have always enjoyed. It is hard work, so I have already lost a stone and am fitter. Before I leave of a morning i get into the shed for at least half an hour, and find it is remarkable how much can be done in a few minutes.

So I have become intrigued by people who have a passion for something, but a completely different line of work. Hence my interest in Joe Brown (and others), so thanks for the ideas.

I am still very keen to find the issue of GWW that has him on the cover as I want to use what I wrote as reference material.

Cheers

Nick

 

[lurker]

the late Paul Daniels

 

[Steve Maskery]

I believe Tim Bentinck AKA David Archer lists woodwork and property renovation as interests.

 

[NickN]

Interesting article titled "Woodworking goes Hollywood":

http://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/w...ogs/Woodworking-Goes-Hollywood-235282911.html

Seems like Google is a vast emptiness when it comes to anything about Joe Brown and woodworking though.

 

[monkeybiter]

Author Philip Pulman.

 

[graduate_owner]

I believe a couple of US presidents were keen woodworkers. Jimmy Carter possibly? Or may have been Bill Clinton?

Worth checking out perhaps?

K

 

[NazNomad]

Message him, maybe he remembers it? https://www.facebook.com/Joe-Brown-182078071926076/

 

[whiskywill]

Martin Clunes.

 

[bugbear]

Author Philip Pulman.

I was going to say him!

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BugBear

 

[Max Power]

I believe a couple of US presidents were keen woodworkers. Jimmy Carter possibly? Or may have been Bill Clinton?

Worth checking out perhaps?

K

Jimmy Carter is definitely a keen woodworker and quite accomplished

 

[NazNomad]

Daniel Day-Lewis too, apparently.

 

[Nick Gibbs]

I sent a copy of Living Woods to Jimmy Carter once, and received a nice hand-written reply. He was an under-rated President, poor man.

Thanks one and all.

Nick

 

[Benchwayze]

Still haven't found this issue of GW though have we? I might have it in my loft, but I am no longer capable of getting up there!

Nick, I will ask my Son to get up there, when he comes over at the weekend.

Regards
John