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Playing with some steam bent redwood veneers in Mendocino for a simple lamp form! Making a grid, I was able to get a bend and twist out of the strips. I beveled each piece where they attach like the lapstrake boat construction I learned with Ejler Hj

Eventually went with a semi transparent black stain and a sprayed satin top coat. Thanks @coyotewoodwork for job and to my shop mates for accommodating the build! @yesmorganstreet @iceagejetset @jamesanthony80 #oakfurniture #customfurniture

Finished a couple big ol’ triangle tables. Always appreciate designers giving the maker creative license for some fun details. Any project that pushes one to jig up for octagonal tapered legs, custom joinery and the use of hand planes is welcom

A day of spoons. These were my first finished spoons. At some point during the making of each, the personalities of the spoon and person it’s intended for fuse.

Ebony, holly and bacote woods.

#woodenspoons #woodcarving #handmadeobjects

The kidney shape is such an iconic and handsome design. Thanks @superpeebs for turning me on to the 99% invisible podcast that talks about how the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto’s pool shape changed skateboarding forever. It’s called the

SafetyThird. Walnut stack lamination. Designs based on CA skateparks and pools!

Thinking about the importance wheeled sports has had on my life. Rollerblading as a kid, skateboarding as a teen and motorcycles now. It was your friends, your escape

Reading A. Huxley during the making I found a pretty fitting quote.

“The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not

The legs are joined to the frame with tapered laps which it turns out need a specific jig made for each member on each side. Made stuff to make things.

The arm joint is a bridle that supports the pad that notches into the frame because if you reall

Always fun to zoom out at the end of a project and trace the points of influence and inspiration.

Thanks @laurabmays for your risky, convention shattering chair work. Check out her googie chair! Also Nakashima inspired hand shaped spindles. 🙏 desi

Meditation chair out of pretty bay laurel/myrtle wood. Integrated cushioning with indigo dyed 11 oz denim.

Happy to make this commission as a vehicle for inter dimensional transportation. Or at least to transcend 2020.

#finewoodworking #finefurn

WeatheriZed for the season! Two color paint job ( sprayed and back brushed twice!) spiral staircase and redwood deck over the existing container. @clifford.nies

Dislocated my shoulder surfing so I figured I would exercise some other design muscles in another lighter wood product- PÄPER.

This started from the study of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The left side uses linearity, language proces

We need more daybeds.
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I heard the art critic Jerry Saltz recommend an exercise of making something in no less than 20 minutes but no more than 2 hours. At a farm with lounging needs and lots of pallets, the mid-brow patio furniture line was born. #byhandandeye #makitabat

Thanks Dean and Abby for a tour and stay @villageozfarm . Inspiring spaces and energy. From sheep pasture, to hippy commune to now Oz farm Apple orchard and beyond. So much to see here. @michellelaurenfrederick is doing an interview with these folks

This is my shop cat Chicken. She needed a spot to quarantine I guess. #internationalcatday !!!!!!

Awesome work by students @alliedwoodshop. Furniture making II: casegoods. Wall hanging cabinets with bridle jointed frame and floating panel sliding door. Floating back panel and splined partition, in the trusty @thekrenovschool fashion. @sbrooks_79

Fundraising auction hosted by @alliedwoodshop starts today! Great work by talented makers! @martinalexanderstudio. Brushes by @sidecar_furniture. Box by @clark_kellogg. Hammer by @sarah_watlington. Dust pan by @charlie.phd. Box pair by @shayvoy and s

Some shots of the tiny plane I made for the @alliedwoodshop fundraiser!
Sometimes you need that baby chamfer to soften an edge consistently! The body is pear, sole Honduran rosewood, hardened steel by @hocktools, brass cross pin. Bid now @alliedwoods

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