» Labor of love will go to the ‘garden boxes the . year before. But no ' good plan » around for a bird- . house and besides I - didn’t think there The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, June 23,1999 3 auction By CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Post Staff SHAVERTOWN - The beautiful work- shop bench Ed Crafts built started out as a birdhouse. “Would you believe that,” says long-time business friend and acquaintance Joe Stager. That's right.” says Ed. “Joe asked me to make a bird- house or bird feeder for the auction. I'd made some cedar came were many home- less, starving birds in“the Back Moun- tain.” Friends like Stager and Bill and Joanne Runner en- couraged Ed tomake the workbench, but he .also admits to a love for his Back Mountain commu- rity as the final in- spiration for his la- bors. Ed's’ heirloom bench actually has been in the making foryears. A whole- sdle lumber com- pany manager by profession and ama- tel woodworker by alae ation, he began salvaging ma- terials years ago. He points out that all the wood in the work- bench is salvaged or recycled. Meére than eight different woods make up the piece, including bitch, beech, maple, redwood, Douglas fir, southern yellow pine, eastern white pine, and three uni- dentified tropical hardwoods. +*A similar prototype for the piece isin the Crafts’ garage, Ed having incorporated an antique vise of his grandfather's in a similar work- bench that he uses. But the new ‘workbench, made expressly for «fhe 1999 Back Mountain Millen- ‘nium Auction, ‘heirloom piece, is definitely an “something a fa- ther could pass on to his son” says Ed Crafts. The workbench has a beautiful laminated butcher block top var- nished with tung oil, and a 9-inch woodworkers vice that opens to 10 inches with a” quick release mechanism. It has 8 drawers and two cupboards, the drawers being all hand-doweled. It disassembles into three main pieces for easy transport, a useful feature since it is rather heavy. There is an open- ended, tool shelf below the table area. “I'd put it my dining room says Jean Hillard,” another friend of the Crafts, who havelived in Shav- ertown for 14 years. Ed is not quite sure how long it took to complete the workbench. “Oh, I don’t know exactly how long. I'd plane a piece of wood then run in the house and watch some TV. But it was quite a while. You can’t buy a workbench like, this at Home Depot or Lowe's, though I think you can get them, from Scandinavia,” noted Ed. | Men will imagine themselves working at this glorious bench, which measures 23 1/2” by 66 1/ 2” by 33 1/2” inch high, creating other wooden works of art. Women will wonder how the piece might fit into the dining room as a buf- fet. (It has a nice space on top that would hold eight wine bottles and the shelf below would nicely hold plates, napkins and silverware.) Whatever your fancy, this unique workbench will be a timed item at this year’s Back Mountain Memo- rial Library Auction, July 8-11. POST PHOTO/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Ed Crafts isn't sure how long it took him to make this beautiful wooden workbench, but it surely won't last long when it goes over the block at the 53rd annual Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction in July. Summer camps for kids in orades 1-8 at Penn State In addition to popular sports camps (soccer, basketball, golf, and volleyball), Penn State Wilkes- Barre Summer Youth Camps of- fer a focus on science and tech- nology. The camps provide chal- lenging and enriching activities for. students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Hands-on activities, experiments and projects geared to each grade level are designed to spark interest in science and technology. This year exciting partnerships with local industries will add a new dimen- sion to the program. Penn State Wilkes-Barre will partner with Procter & Gamble and Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises in July for a week of “hands-on” learning and fun. 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