Category: furniture
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”Put a lot of downward pressure and run that thing at maximum speed!” my brother-in-law said. We were disassembling a roof in the hot California desert and I came across a rusty screw that just wouldn’t come out. I had been using a cautious approach with my cordless drill, which had worked until then. When…
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Only a fraction of all art that was ever created survives to this day. Naturally, large structures or images in stone have a better chance at survival. It is very hard to preserve wooden items for extended amounts of time, as they deteriorate rapidly unless kept in a well protected environment. If a wooden sculpture…
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Did you know that many pieces of furniture you can buy at IKEA come with a Plane Adjustment Hammer™? If you didn’t know this, please read on. The IKEA Plane Adjustment Hammer™ is usually found in the see-through bag of hardware that comes with your piece of furniture. The only thing you have to do…
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I carved a book for the 10-year anniversary of the Anarchist’s Tool Chest, published by Lost Art Press. In this blog post I show you how I made the carving. The idea that lies at the origins of this carving goes back many years ago when I had the inspiration to carve a book. Combining…
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One of the more peculiar things about some chairs by Chester Cornett is the cursive letter carving that he sometimes decorated his works with. The big rocking chair he made for president Nixon in 1973 has every back slat covered in cursive writing (Chester’s handwriting – but then carved). At some point recently it occurred…
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There has been much talk about furniture “outliving the maker”. And that chairs currently made could still being around in several hundreds years. A romantic view that has a nice soothing feeling for the egos of the makers currently alive. After all, what is better than feeling that your life was not in vain, your…
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We all start somewhere. We all practice. We all have our reasons to practice. When your technique improves, it helps you achieve your goals. For instance, when you can play scales on the piano without errors, or saw to a saw line without going off to the side, it lays a good basis for successful…
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I bought an antique German ‘Brettstuhl’ from 1832. It is in great condition and only cost me 39,30€ shipped (I guess not a lot of people want to buy these?) Though the traditional Brettstuhl style doesn’t speak to me as much as Welsh armchairs, I am still fascinated by this one. What I particularly like…
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It has been a little over a year since I started shifting my attention from sculptures and spoons to furniture as an endeavor to improve my lacking precision skills. In early 2018, I had set myself a deadline to complete several Acanthus leaves. But instead of completing this challenge (I stopped after 2 acanthus leaves)…
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Part Two Please click here for part one of my Welsh Stick Chair build Let’s make some sticks With the undercarriage done, I moved to the second level of the chair – the sticks and armbow/comb. Shaping the sticks took a lot of time. I don’t have a straight tenon cutter so everything had to…
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