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Archive for March 2010
So, I missed the Philadelphia Invitational Furniture Show this past weekend. I’m not quite sure what happened, other than my memory can be quite spotty, and I failed to put the dates in my phone. But on Sunday, I happened to look it up at 3pm, and it ended that day at 5. In response [...]
From the great woods of Connecticut comes this week’s droolfest, a furniture conversion company called Get Back. G.B. obtains materials and then re-purposes them into some great looking furniture. There is some great vision in the catalog, and their showroom-oh man their showroom-is quite stunning. They offer up some interesting pieces that I am pretty [...]
Well, there he is, folks: The Bare Englishman. Assembly is now pretty much complete. I attached the base, finished up all of the drawers, and cut the shelf. Now the only cut to worry about is my shellac. Oh, clever woodworking jokes. That’s the shelf on the bottom of the opening there. Perhaps I got [...]
I’m ready for it! Just got this guy this weekend, and it made my hands smell like leather. Which feels pretty good.
Did you see that one? It was pretty good. This comes from my friend Anton Lieberman, currently living out in LA. He made the handle himself out of White Ash, then attached an eBay special Axe Head, and dipped the end into white stain. The last time I saw Anton make something similar, it was [...]
Core 77 had a post today about HallMfg creating 24 chairs in 24 hours. Some pretty interesting stuff came up, but more importantly, there was some major brain challenging going on. The chairs were built in six four hour periods. I’m a little confused as to whether or not Andy, the builder of these chairs, [...]