theEastside Scene - March 2016

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Working with the grain

{ { Steve Sergev carves a wood piece with his lathe at his home shop. Photo by Megan Campbell

A man discovers — and rediscovers — the joys of woodworking By Megan Campbell Staff Writer

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teve Sergev stood at his lathe, woodchips spraying around him as he edged the onetime block of walnut closer toward the recognizable curvature of a bowl. As he took more and more chunks off his material, a musty exposed wood scent added itself to the odor of crisp, dried lumber that already permeated his shop. Soon the not-quite-raw-material, notquite-functional-object he was shaping in his hands would join hundreds of other wood chunks and half-finished, drying bowls littered and stacked in the shop next to his house just outside Sammamish. Letting the lathe slow, the 68-year-old examined his work. Getting close. “It’s just satisfying to take a lump of wood and make something useful out of it,” Sergev said later that day while sitting with his wife of 40 years, Cory, at their dining room table. “It’s fun to discover the grain inside.” A retired Boeing engineer, Sergev said he does not consider himself an artist. But Cory, an artist herself, vigorously disagrees. If you ask her, she’ll launch into an examination of Sergev’s use of form, shape and color. “[Those are] all the things that artists use,” she said. ‘WOODWORK’ CONTINUED ON PG 6

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