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Category Archive: Crafted :: Projects in Process
Perhaps you remember this little post. Perhaps you don’t. Either way, I finally began working on a barn-style sliding door made out of an awesome, hand painted vintage sign. The plywood sign is wrapped with old pine headers that were ripped out of a building somewhere. They have a great patina and worn paint. By [...]
With some foam and batting in hand, I took a turn at some upholstery the other day, and all told, it is a relatively simple process. I stretched some plaid for my first attempt, deciding that with all of the lines and the complex patterns, it would be the perfect informer for technique. For my [...]
Good news: there are two of these guys. These are old signs from (obviously) a scrap metal business that were hand painted some 15 years ago at the least. One will definitely become a sliding door, and as for the other, well, who knows what the future holds. This is something I’ve always wanted to [...]
The finish is probably the toughest part of making something. The lines between amazing, interesting, stupid, and boring can get pretty close, and if you make a wrong decision, well sorry, you have to live with it. That being said, the new chairs I made the other week as part of a design experiment and [...]
I walked into the studio yesterday intent on making a chair in one hour, a quick experiment just to make something and get some design juices flowing. Well, that one hour turned into seven, and a set of pretty decent chairs came out. They’re not complete yet by any means, but these impromptu prototypes are [...]
In a rush of excitement at the end of the finish schedule, I put the horse before the cart. After bringing the Stoudt Englishman to the Apartment, I remembered the one thing I should have thought about 3 weeks ago: hardware. Oops. So, we are currently opening the drawers with little pieces of blue tape, [...]