Making a marking knife from an old planer blade – part 2
After the epoxy hardened I traced the outline of the handle design on the rosewood parts and sawed the excess wood. After some light planing and sanding the handle was ready. Lastly, I [...]
Making a marking knife from an old planer blade – part 1
A marking knife is one of the most useful tools in my toolbox. I use it to score lines in preparation for sawing or chiseling. I own several knives but the one I use most is the new slim …
A gallery for contemporary furniture you should know of
Culture + Commerce Project in Hudson New York is one of my favorite furniture galleries. I stumbled upon it two years ago while attending a weekend wedding in the charming town of Hudson. It [...]
What a recently discovered bug in England and a plane have in common.
While reading the newspaper today I encountered a fascinating story. Scientists in England discovered the first known creature to develop a machine like gear, a mechanism never before observed in [...]
Repurposed wine barrels turned into stunning furniture
The Museum Of Design in Atlanta (http://www.museumofdesign.org/current-exhibitions/) is displaying a furniture exhibit designed by world renowned architects/designers and buit by patients in a [...]
Carving in Maine – Part 4: "Home studio" and photographing my boards
After I turned, painted, and finished the handles, I found some beautiful scraps of wood such as birch, walnut, and ash, and mounted the handles onto them using epoxy adhesive. After branding [...]
Carving in Maine – Part 3: my cutting boards’ painted handles
Steff’s class was great, but I also found time to experiment with new designs for one of my tried and true products – turned handle cutting boards. I have been making these boards for [...]
Carving in Maine – Part 2
Last time I showed you pictures of Deer Island, Maine and the woodshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Steff's class was 5 days long. During that time we lived on the Haystack campus, [...]
Carving in Maine – Part 1
This blog entry is way over due. So much as a year delay. But there is a reason why I am publishing it now. That is that at end of the three postings on my teaching in Maine I will …
Installing Campaign chest hardware – part 6: Setting in the round corners,
I made the template from 1/2 MDF. I constructed the template’s reduce along the contour of smallest corner from the eight that we bought. This way I ensured that after routing the recesses [...]
Installing Campaign chest hardware – part 5: Setting the bracket corner straps
The bracket corner straps that I used were made from a short piece of thin brass that was drilled and bent. In order to install all of them, don’t ask me how many, I devised a template. [...]
Installing Campaign chest hardware – part 4: Setting the large handles into the teak drawers.
In order to install the large-sized handles I had to create a bigger template system that, although shared the same principles with the previous template, had one or two new variants. I made the [...]