Thursday, March 19, 2020

Further Exploring


I figured Don Draper's (Mad Men) drinks cart would make a fun project. Curves, sculpted joinery etc. Bit like making a chair.



Turns out it was designed by an Italian designer in the early 50's, Cesare Lacca. He made a few different bar carts, all cool. I pieced together a full scale drawing from a pretty crappy internet photo. Started making patterns. we'll see where this prototype goes.



Spoon Carving

I shadowed a spoon carving course at the school recently. Highly addictive stuff. Prepping for class:



Paper Birch, still green, fresh off the bandsaw:


My carving efforts:



Shop storage

Made a little dovetailed hanging drawer to store card scrapers etc.




The bench room Bessy's were housed in clamp cabinets, made from some Cherry I harvested with Dan many years ago.


Longer K body's sneaked in next to the dust collector.




I mocked up a machine cut drawer joint for students who don't want to cut dovetails. The Half Blind Dado Rabbet, from the Rogowski Joinery book.


Wednesday, March 11, 2020