#hands and machine

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Diamond Grill in progress. 2016. Bent steel and hexagon expanded metal.

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Charlie & Katy Bellows. 2016. Second bellows I’ve made using my grandfather’s plans.

Black Walnut, leather, copper upholstery pins.

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Colby Island. 2016. Ash and steel.

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In progress: COLBY kitchen island. 2016. Ash and steel.

Some more plasma cut and bent steel with the help of Eric Hester. Mostly welded up and still working on the details. Big ash top is all glued up but not finish cut. It will get a wood shelf in there too. More soon. Also check out this sweet upgrade we just made. 

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In progress: DIAMOND GRILL. 2016. Steel. CNC plasma cut and bent with the help of my pal Eric Hester and his brand new mag brake. I tacked it up and now I’m grinding and working on the details. Stay tuned for updates.

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WILL bench. California redwood and c-channel steel. Finished with Epifanes satin.

This thing was a beast-- 4″ thick, with beautiful figuring. Some rot on the underside was repaired with a penetrating resin and then the whole thing was finished with 5-7 coats Epifanes gloss followed by three coats satin to finish. I love the satin. 

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RAMP bench (pair). 2016. Collaboration with Eric Hester. 130-year-old longleaf pine (from the Clocktower building in the Heights) and bent and welded steel. These are part of a Fotofest exhibition going on at Rice University right now.

The wood had some sweet little “ramp” sections cut out of from where some sort of cross fastener fit into it. We may end up filling one end on each of those sections with resin and one end with steel. We’ll see.