Editor's Note: The deadline for entry has been extended through Sunday, January 6th. Get your submissions in before it's too late!   Entries are being accepted for the popular Young Woodworking Professionals competition, which recognizes outstanding projects and the young wood pros that created them. The free competition is Woodworking Network's salute to woodworkers aged 18-35. Entries will be accepted from November 5 until January 6.  

CHARLOTTE -- Young Wood Pro finalist, Nathan Deal's 17-ft. kayak named the Great Auk was awarded the Young Wood Pro winner at Wood Pro Expo in Charlotte.  Deal said his kayak was crafted with western red cedar and used curly white maple for accent strips.

Voting for the 2015 Young Wood Pro finalists ends on Friday, Sept. 4. Vote now!

Goebel & Company Furniture creative director and co-founder Martin Goebel named Young Woodworking Professional of the Year; Inaugural award to recognize the highest degree of skill in Woodworking