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Benjamin Jack Prowell.
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On February 8th, 2010, Ben begins a 2-year stay with the North Bennett Street School of Fine Furniture making.  This venerable institution was founded 125 years ago and remains in the same building in the heart of Boston.  For Ben, it's a road that began when he first entered the shop at 2 and began earning pocket money with the earliest lessons in woodworking--sweeping the floor.  Below, a photo of North Bennett Street as it appears to day and where for the coming two years, where Ben will spend his days absorbed in the art and temperament of a Zen-like approach to woodworking.
North Bennet Srteet School



  1990--
Accessorized with his grandfather's Illinois nail apron and hammer and weilding in his left hand, his great grandfather's hammer.
  2005
Finally a shop apron that fits him.


  1990--
A photo that appeared in the Press Democrate, the Sonoma County paper.  Clamping a new table.

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  1993--
Building something.  Who knows what.  But he has his own toolbox and his own nail apron and his own hammer.  Building something.

  1993--
Watching and learning

  Left--Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.  Right--Too Hot to Handle

  1995--
A blue ribbon winner at the Sonoma County Fair for his redwood coffee table.

   2002--
The generational continuum of one apprentice to another
(Ben and cousin Parker Prowell).

  Parker, finishing his bench.

  Ben and Parker in November 2007

  May 2005--
Considering the apprpriate joinery for his new Patio & Lawn Tables. 


Exhibiting what Ben has designed and built over the years would require a site of his own.  But here we have a couple of variations on a new look for patio tables and accompanying bench.
patio table




  2005---At work on a gate for an historical Georgetown, DC property.

  A typical gate subjected to quality control test #32.

  With his older brother Sam Prowell, on the right, for a family gathering at the Beach Chalet in San Francisco.  2004

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  March 2008, geared up with his headphones for music and ear protection; his high tech battery operated dust filter; and the special woodworker's gloves. 

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  The Jaguar's caliper-like hands at work

  A marketer's dream:  Five Prowells in the shop at once.
Ben giving a few of his cousins a little time in the shop
Left to right: Jackson, Ben, Parker, Asa, and Soren.

 

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  April 2009

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January 2010.  Shown in the final assembly stages of a typical double-tier post cap

post cap
 

ben prowell at North Bennet Street, boston
On the rooftop at North Bennet St.  Boston's historic North End
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  A visit to this venerable institution---in May of 2010
north bennet street woodworking
  The third floor--Ben showing Charles the 2nd-year student's shop.

 


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