It’s Been Awhile – June 2021 Newsletter
It’s been so long since I published one of these you probably forgot you subscribed to my newsletter. On the bright side a lot of things happened in my shop over the last year so let me catch you up.
It’s been so long since I published one of these you probably forgot you subscribed to my newsletter. On the bright side a lot of things happened in my shop over the last year so let me catch you up.
If you are serious about collecting art or want beautiful things in your homes, The Hunter Wolff Gallery is a gallery you will want to build a relationship with.
I have been experimenting with this process to add a gorgeous element to these peek-a-boo clocks. The gravitas imparted by the process and finished result (called yakisugi) are the blackest I have ever gotten wood before. Typically, using a dye or stain leaves a purple undertone to the black so it is not a true black. These are a deep rich black, that adds one more level of detail to the patinated copper clock designs.
After spending a bunch of time in the construction industry working around heavy machinery and power tools, it is a pretty safe bet I could be losing some of my hearing.
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This month’s featured project is a project I finished this summer: a bank of built-in cabinets with live-edge slabs and floating shelves for a client’s home office in Evergreen, Colorado.
This table was fun to design since it is half an oval. To achieve the oval shape, each segment had to be cut at a different length and angle from the center of the arch to the back edge of the table.