Biography
Mark Duginske is a fourth generation central Wisconsin woodworker living in Merrill, WI. His family has been involved with the woodworking business in central Wisconsin for 148 years, His great-grandfather immigrated from Poland in 1863 as a teenager and worker as a lumber jack. He is the grand-son of Peter Duginske, who built the first portable sawmill in Wisconsin, and used the second log from the initial logging to produce buildings, cabinets and furniture.
He makes his living as a woodworker, designer, writer and inventor. He was formally a contributing editor to Fine Woodworking Magazine and now writes for a number of magazines. His work has appeared in Fine Woodworking, Fine Home Building, The Design Book, Americana, Chicago Magazine, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Woodsmith, Wood Shop News and Wood News. His restoration work in the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois has appeared on This Old House and the PBS Frank Lloyd Wright Special. He has 9 patents on woodworking tools, is the author of 10 books, and has done two videos for the Taunton Press (Fine Woodworking). In 2008 he received the national First-Place GOLDEN HAMMER Award for the book The New Complete Guide to the Bandsaw.
Mark Duginske has taught woodworking classes from Maine to California. He worked as a Registered Nurse (RN) at the hospital in Merrill from 1976 to 1980 before becoming the Supervisor of the Auto-Tutorial Learning Lab at NCTC. He teaches woodworking classes in Merrill and Appleton.
Mark Duginske
W5823 School Avenue
Merrill, WI 54452
Email: markduginske@gmail.com
Phone: 715-536-7449
iPhone: 715-551-4487