690 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
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I have a client that lives close to me, and we have had a lot of fun designing and building things for their home. They sort of “pushed” me into quitting my day job by offering a long term commission to transform their home with functional-art pieces one at a time, according to an overall game plan. They had a general idea of what they wanted, but needed someone to turn the dream into wood.
They were willing to adapt their ideas to mine, and vice versa, and I have really appr...
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692 days ago
by frank |
6 comments »
Waunderings in Ones Back-Yard WoodLot
....crunching the landscape of snowflakes, i soon took a waundering walkabout, where all is silently content within their respected milieu, awaiting those birthing pangs that signal a spectacular spring…..
—-were it not for these striving images of imagination,who would be found to come and rescue a soul such as i,since long ago in times of olden beholden begotten wood turnings,i walked right out of sight from those who had long tried to...
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761 days ago
by frank |
3 comments »
Been Workin’ at Wood
....and so I have,and so I yet will be,and so I just can’t get enough,of that thing called workin’ wood!
Well just some photos here of what’s going on around here at the moment, as I’m preparing for the best of winter. One of the opportunities that is presented to me up here, as I go through the seasons, is the ongoing adjustment to the need of change. And so I have been busy, and then more then a little busy at getting wood in and spli...
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768 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
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I’ve had a fun week. I’m building a chair to match the Tilt Front Desk that I previously posted, and blogged about. If you want to read about the desk, the posting link is given at the bottom of this blog.
The desk chair is designed to fit the customer’s kitchen, as the desk is being placed in the kitchen area. She loves to cook, and hopes to move her laptop computer station to the kitchen where she can capture her thoughts on her cooking blog, and do more writing.
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769 days ago
by frank |
2 comments »
Live in the woods….Wood Art
Well here we go….while out last Saturday working in the woods, I happened to be down in a place that does not get into my normal forest travels. I was down in this area last fall cutting trees for this winter’s burning and happened to be down here not long ago looking at some trees that had recently fallen, due to storm winds. Last Saturday was spent cleaning those trees up and while on a break that morning, I decided to waunder around.
Foun...
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772 days ago
by Jon3 |
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I grabbed a Dewalt Dado set off Amazon for a song a while back, thanks to the wonderful deal hound at Woodnet.
So I loaded that up, got a good fit, and began to run down some Dados
Then I began to glue & brad the chassis together.
I set that aside so that the glue could dry, and moved on to the drawers. I broke down the ply, and laid them all out.
Before I assembled, I did a big tape-up, tossed on some cheap sacrificial borg ply on the bottom, and drilled the...
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772 days ago
by Jon3 |
2 comments »
NOTE All of my photos have been migrated to a new provider, and the links in my posts are likely out of date. You can find the photos here.
So, I’ve needed a router table, and I wanted an nice big surface area. I’ve used some of the lighter weight ones before and didnt’ care for them. The only product I used that I liked was the Bench Dog with the CI top, and the whole system, including a nice beefy 3HP router would have set me back around $1500.
I couldn’t se...
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777 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
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I’m in the midst of finishing up a project I have really enjoyed. Sure, it has taken me two times the hours I bid, but I am happy with the result. Actually, it has come out better than I expected, which is always a nice surprise.
This is a functional-art piece I wish I wasn’t selling, to be honest. But, I have already spent all of the down payment. So, giving the money back is not possible, so the customer will get her desk.
There have been a few pieces I wish I could ha...
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784 days ago
by Mark A. DeCou |
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Several have asked about what I am working on now, so I thought I would take a minute and post some progress photos.
My current work is a Kitchen Shelving and Desk system in Birch to match the styling of the exisiting cabinets built in the early 1960’s. Seemed like a fairly straight forward project for a past customer, and I like working for them. They “discovered” me, and that “Rates” in my book, regardless of what they want me to do.
During the planning...
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862 days ago
by frank |
4 comments »
Planes of Architect
….as from my place of sitting, i looked at you to aspire your eye, till in the moment of thought-full re-mitting, your gazing zest of life came to un-der-lie….
—-what gives this form before me aspect, twas not just yesterday you reached for heavens sky, and now we meet on different planes of architect, even then we bi-sected by in-ter-sect with questions of the how and why….
—-phantoms of a period that time has far-gotten, where crowds o...
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