I’m realizing a couple things in my designs I’m doing lately. I like designing with curves. I love the life it adds to a relatively simple basic form. Imagine the piece below with all straight lines, it would be pretty boring, missing anything that would catch your eye or add life to the space it … (Read More)
This is a bookshelf design I’m working on. I need a shelf over my desk at the shop to hold some of my woodworking books, so I came up with this. Its about 32″ x 20″ with hand dovetailed drawers and shelves attached to the sides with through mortice and tenons. I like the design … (Read More)
I launched my Etsy shop yesterday, and one of the things I’ve noticed right off the bat is that I don’t have enough items for sale. I’m hoping to get at least one of the other box designs that I posted earlier done in the next few weeks. Even so, I want to offer some … (Read More)
This is another box concept I’m currently working on. It will require a lot of shaping with rasps, spokeshaves, and planes, which I’m VERY excited about. I had a tough time trying to draw other proportional sketches of this box, so the above sketches really don’t show whats fully in my head. I had an … (Read More)
After being so thrilled with the way my first box turned out, I’ve decided to design and build a few more different styles. I’ve drawn this one a few different ways now, and I’m still not sold on it completely. It may just be my inability to draw, so I might mock one up. At the … (Read More)