By Darcel Rockett – ChicagoTribune.com – Photo: Camille Fine | Chicago Tribune.
Photo: Bart Komar’s bicycle won first place in Rockler Woodworking and Hardware store’s #RocklerBentWoodChallenge. The New Lenox resident won a $500 Rockler gift card for a bicycle he made using the bentwood style of woodworking.
Bending wood does not require magic. However, the effects of wood bending do seem somewhat magical when New Lenox resident Bartosz Skomorowski, aka Bart Komar, is behind it. Komar’s woodworking skills recently garnered him a first place win in a national woodworking competition hosted and sponsored by Rockler Woodworking and Hardware, a supplier of specialty hardware, tools, lumber and woodworking products based in Medina, Minnesota.
