Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Cabinets or Cupboards With Glass Etching or Sandblasting
Unique hand carved and sandblasted cupboards by Eugenie Woodcraft.
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| This cabinet features rose carved doors, an elaborate rose carved top molding and sandblasted butterflies in the glass. There is a bottom shelf to store small items or cups. This cupboard is made of pine and stained Special Walnut. |
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| This is a little cupboard that features a topiary in the glass. There are two adjustable glass shelves and it is finished in a warm Pecan stain. This cupboard could be made in other sizes or with another design in the glass. This cupboard also features a latt backing which adds a nice touch. |
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| This cupboard features a lat backing, and leaves and vines sandblasted on the glass. She also has a rose carved on the door, and the bottom molding, and is shown in a warm Pecan stain. Eugenie Woodcraft www.etsy.com/shop/woodcraftqueen |
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Easy 2 step step stool
If youd like to make one, heres a PDF template you can download.
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What to Post on your Company Facebook Page
These tips were published in an article on Mashable.com by Ekaterina Walter: 10 Tips for Posting on Your Brands Facebook Page. For the full original article please click here.
By now, the word “Facebook” has become such a household name that it’s likely your brand is already on Facebook. Company Facebook pages are a very useful social media resource when updated regularly but efficiently. In a recent Mashable article, social media strategist Ekaterina Walter poses a central question to building Facebook relationships with potential customers effectively:
“How [do] you engage those fans and sustain a meaningful online dialogue with your customers. Facebook fans will only want to engage with us if we serve up relevant content and truly participate.”
The key word there is engage, but that’s easier said than done when you’re busy in the shop and running a business and don’t have endless amounts of spare time to devote to your “desk work.” Thats legitimate, and often times the only way to use a tool efficiently is to understand the components of that tool and really pin down what youre hoping to gain. If the aim of your businesss Facebook is to spread awareness about your brand and build engaged consumer relationships, then knowing about which posts are seen and how is helpful.
Walker calls readers’ attention to EdgeRank, this is Facebook’s News Feed algorithm that helps display “relevant” stories. “The News Feed only displays a small subset of stories generated by the friends and brands users engage with the most,” says Walker. “The more popular your story, the more likely it is to show up in peoples News Feed. News Feed optimization becomes as important as your content strategy.”
Okay so we’ll start with those 2 ideas, (1) Engaging, conversation-starting content (2)Newsfeed optimization. In her full article, Ekaterina elucidates ten strategies for achieving both engaging content and newsfeed optimization. I’ll boil down Ms. Walker’s first pointer below, but check out her full article for useful, in-depth info on this subject.
#1 Tip: Don’t Automate Your Status Updates
Resist the temptation to feed your blog posts or your Twitter updates directly into your Facebook Page. It may be a short-term time saver, but automated content often doesn’t make it into users’ News Feeds (which means it gets buried and they don’t see it). Your fans can also tell the difference between “auto” posts and customized one that you’ve wrote with thought, so taking the time to write legit posts carries rapport with your fans (your past or potential customers).
This doesn’t mean you have to sweat about updating your page constantly, it’s just a reminder that putting in the extra few minutes when you do get around to updating your Facebook is worthwhile to engage your fans and show up in News Feeds.
CustomMade.com is an online marketing resource for woodworkers and creators of custom products. These marketing tips are intended to help you grow your online presence as a woodworking professional seeking to build a relationship with online shoppers. For more info on online marketing and joining the CustomMade community click here.
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Thinking about going pro and selling your woodwork? Or just want some advice on how to market your business and make it stand out in the marketplace? Well this blog’s for you.
A joint venture between Fine Woodworking
and CustomMade, The Pro Shop will give you tips on selling custom furniture or just getting started in the business.
Questions for our bloggers? Post a comment here and we’ll try to address it in an upcoming post.
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By now, the word “Facebook” has become such a household name that it’s likely your brand is already on Facebook. Company Facebook pages are a very useful social media resource when updated regularly but efficiently. In a recent Mashable article, social media strategist Ekaterina Walter poses a central question to building Facebook relationships with potential customers effectively:
“How [do] you engage those fans and sustain a meaningful online dialogue with your customers. Facebook fans will only want to engage with us if we serve up relevant content and truly participate.”
The key word there is engage, but that’s easier said than done when you’re busy in the shop and running a business and don’t have endless amounts of spare time to devote to your “desk work.” Thats legitimate, and often times the only way to use a tool efficiently is to understand the components of that tool and really pin down what youre hoping to gain. If the aim of your businesss Facebook is to spread awareness about your brand and build engaged consumer relationships, then knowing about which posts are seen and how is helpful.
Walker calls readers’ attention to EdgeRank, this is Facebook’s News Feed algorithm that helps display “relevant” stories. “The News Feed only displays a small subset of stories generated by the friends and brands users engage with the most,” says Walker. “The more popular your story, the more likely it is to show up in peoples News Feed. News Feed optimization becomes as important as your content strategy.”
Okay so we’ll start with those 2 ideas, (1) Engaging, conversation-starting content (2)Newsfeed optimization. In her full article, Ekaterina elucidates ten strategies for achieving both engaging content and newsfeed optimization. I’ll boil down Ms. Walker’s first pointer below, but check out her full article for useful, in-depth info on this subject.
#1 Tip: Don’t Automate Your Status Updates
Resist the temptation to feed your blog posts or your Twitter updates directly into your Facebook Page. It may be a short-term time saver, but automated content often doesn’t make it into users’ News Feeds (which means it gets buried and they don’t see it). Your fans can also tell the difference between “auto” posts and customized one that you’ve wrote with thought, so taking the time to write legit posts carries rapport with your fans (your past or potential customers).
This doesn’t mean you have to sweat about updating your page constantly, it’s just a reminder that putting in the extra few minutes when you do get around to updating your Facebook is worthwhile to engage your fans and show up in News Feeds.
CustomMade.com is an online marketing resource for woodworkers and creators of custom products. These marketing tips are intended to help you grow your online presence as a woodworking professional seeking to build a relationship with online shoppers. For more info on online marketing and joining the CustomMade community click here.
posted in: blogs, marketing
document.write();document.write();
Thinking about going pro and selling your woodwork? Or just want some advice on how to market your business and make it stand out in the marketplace? Well this blog’s for you.
A joint venture between Fine Woodworking
and CustomMade, The Pro Shop will give you tips on selling custom furniture or just getting started in the business.
Questions for our bloggers? Post a comment here and we’ll try to address it in an upcoming post.
About Fine Woodworking: Your source for expert advice on woodworking and furniture making since 1975.
About CustomMade: An online marketplace designed to help serious craftspeople sell their wares and help customers locate a custom maker.
Day of the Doctor Weekend with Wood Cyber Black Friday Sunday clothes Movember
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- Woodworkers fighting cancer
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales in 1949 and lives and works in London. Deacon is a ground breaking contemporary sculptor who is well known for his dynamic, organic, anatomical, abstract sculptures scaling from small to massive.
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He uses manufacturing and building techniques rather than traditional sculpturing methods. Therefore, he is able to use woods, steel and ceramics to produce slick curled, spiraled, shaped objects. Over the past decade, he has developed a vocabulary of shapes and this notion.
I am really gravitated toward his large-scale sculptures. Besides his exceptional craftsmanship, his works are consistently dynamic, forceful, aesthetically beautiful, and the best of all, they are playful -- resembling rubix cubes (puzzles) or maze. Deacon quotes: “The curve has a life of its own, it is not describing or depicting a shape.”
Spatial relationships between sculpture and its surroundings are also equally important to the artist.
Here is one of his works:
Restless, 2005
Steamed ash and stainless steel
158 x 374 x 257 cm
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen was a Danish architect and designer in the tradition of the “Danish Modern” style. Jacobsen got his degree in 1927 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Many of his furniture designs have become classics. He is also credited for designing flatware some of which, his right and left spoons, were used in Stanley Kubricks film 2001:A Space Odyssey.
The Ant chair and the very recognizable Egg chair are just two examples of his furniture work.
He is also known for his bent plywood design the Model 3107 chair (or “Number 7” chair), which is purported to have sold over 5 million copies.
Perhaps the most famous use of the Number 7 chair was in the photograph taken by Lewis Morley in 1963 of Christine Keeler. Christine Keeler, for those of you who were not around in the 1960’s, was involved in bringing down the British government of Harold Macmillion in what is now known as the Profumo Affair. You can look up the details at your leisure. Lewis used the Number 7 chair, in this now famous photograph, to hide some of the assets Keeler used to entice Profumo. The photograph propelled the Jacobsen Model 3107 chair to stardom and use as a prop in similar photographs.
This image is © Lewis Morley Archive / National Portrait Gallery, London.
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The Ant chair and the very recognizable Egg chair are just two examples of his furniture work.
He is also known for his bent plywood design the Model 3107 chair (or “Number 7” chair), which is purported to have sold over 5 million copies.
Perhaps the most famous use of the Number 7 chair was in the photograph taken by Lewis Morley in 1963 of Christine Keeler. Christine Keeler, for those of you who were not around in the 1960’s, was involved in bringing down the British government of Harold Macmillion in what is now known as the Profumo Affair. You can look up the details at your leisure. Lewis used the Number 7 chair, in this now famous photograph, to hide some of the assets Keeler used to entice Profumo. The photograph propelled the Jacobsen Model 3107 chair to stardom and use as a prop in similar photographs.
This image is © Lewis Morley Archive / National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Nick Schade The Hatori Hanzo of Kyak makers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB-eCprJ8eU
I stumbled upon Nick Schades work while researching what other artists and craftsmen are were making out Cedar (Cedar is the primary material of Ursula Von Rydingsvard). Nick Schade a former Navy engineer, made his first Kayak in 1986 out of the belief that he could make a sea worthy, responsive, light and durable kayak from the strip built method.
The strip built method (which previously had been used to craft canoes but rarely if ever kayaks) is a process of laying down and gluing dozens of western red cedar strips on to a form. The strips generally run the entire length of the kayak which may be as long as 20 feet. The form itself is around 20 MDF cross-sections of the hull of the kayak (cut out on the band saw) attached to an aluminum strong back held up by saw horses. Once the strips are glued together, the long process or plaining and sanding begins. A light stain is then applied to the wood to bring out wood grain and color. After this dries a fiberglass fabric is placed on the kayak covering the entire hull. Epoxy is brushed onto the fabric making the fabric transparent and exposing the rich color and grain of the cedar beneath it. The fiber glass servers to strengthen and to water proof the vessel. A similar process is repeated on the inside of the craft with a carbon fiber and kevlar woven fabric.
Nick Schade has become well renown not only for his kayaks but also his willingness to share designs and strip building processes. He has published two books on strip built kayaks and will also custom build a kayak through his business http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/. Schade kayaks have been written about in national publications and are shown in the American Craft Museum as well as the Museum of Modern art in New York.
While the prospect of making my own kayak is equal parts exciting and daunting, the process of strip built wooden sculpture is very interesting. Strip building would allow for sculptures with complex curves to be light weight and even buoyant. One could craft strip built wooden balloons fill them with helium and tie them down to uprooted stump. What if Jeff Koons giant silver balloon dog was strip built western red cedar? Perhaps the greatest advantage of strip building is not the complex curves (as these can be achieved through carving) rather it is the light weight durability of the finished work. This would portend well for any works that may involve buoyancy or a dramatic contrast of scale and density.
Another artist that employs strip building in some of his works is Martin Puryear. Durring his youth Puryear actually learned to build guitars, furniture, and canoes! Most likely he employed the strip built method around a form for the canoes. In Puryears pieace "Brunhilde" which I had the pleasure of seeing in person at SFMOMA a few years ago) Puryear utilizes a open strip built basket weave method to create a form that is like that of an expanded basket. This piece I was imediatly drawn to for its large scale, volume, and negative space. "Bird Martin" by contrast also uses the strip built method. Rather than lining up each strip and glueing the edges together, Puryear hi-lights the process of making the form by over-lapping each strip in a random patternless binding. This simultaneously connotes the random weaving of a birds nest and also an emotive connotation of entrapment or imprisonment.
Strip building, like wood joinery, is another tool I am interested in adding to my sculptural tool belt. It is not technique that I would use exclusively, rather a method I would use when light durable organic curves are called for.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Piggies and project preview bathroom cabinet
First, I wanted to share a couple of cool piggy banks that have shown up in my email. This one is from Dave Rooney whose granddaughter is a princess. So cute!
Jeff Newhook made this bank which isnt a piggy at all, but rather an owl for his 4-year-old niece. He also made a video of the process. Check it out!
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Project preview
This week Ive been working on a rustic bath cabinet using some of the pallet wood I recently picked up. I shot this video this morning to give you an idea of what to expect. Im putting a lot of finish on it to protect it from a damp bathroom environment.
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Jeff Newhook made this bank which isnt a piggy at all, but rather an owl for his 4-year-old niece. He also made a video of the process. Check it out!
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I also want to share this tray that Sergio Aparicio made using strips of plywood and metal door pulls. I think its a great idea, and something you might consider making on a cold winter afternoon. I love the look of using exposed plywood edges.
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Winter Sale!
Been thinking about buying a woodworking t-shirt from the Wood Shoppe? Purchase anything by next Tuesday as get 20% off. Use coupon code MONEY20 at the checkout.
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Project preview
This week Ive been working on a rustic bath cabinet using some of the pallet wood I recently picked up. I shot this video this morning to give you an idea of what to expect. Im putting a lot of finish on it to protect it from a damp bathroom environment.
Video and plans tomorrow!
Bed tables
I wanted to give you some more ideas for making a bed table. Here is Daniel Pozzobons table that led me to build mine. Hes added some blocks on the top to give his laptop more ventilation. I was thinking that perhaps you could simply include a few holes in the top surface, too.
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Heres a bed table Larry Clinton built for his sons father-in-law to sit beside him on the bed when he eats. I love the inclusion of the magnets.
Larry writes:
He wanted the section for his cup and his silverware and a lip all the way around so things dont roll off. Its maple plywood with a solid maple edge and solid maple everywhere else. The legs are joined together with dowels. They came loose after about 3 weeks and I got it back and re-glued the dowels and added screws to make sure they stay.
The legs are connected to the blocks on the underside of the table with dowels that are glued in on only one side so they pivot easily. There are rare earth magnets in the top and screws in the legs to latch them in. The extra maple on the side was to make it balance on end with the handle up. I guess it could be used as a lap table, but it probably never will be.
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Got a new beer fridge!
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Rustic Stool
I was going to document the full build of this little project but my camera battery died after just a few beginning shots and by the time it had charged up I had completed most of the build. Needless to say its very similar in concept to my Traditional Saw Bench if you are interested.
I am calling it rustic as the Pine that forms the simple lap jointed frame is so knotted and wild its almost unworkable. There is sap wood, reversing grain and knots but I couldnt bring myself to waste the wood. I was going to attempt lap jointed dovetails but I figured that would probably end in disaster at my skill level with this wood.
To be honest, this project almost didnt make it to completion as I nearly threw the whole lot out of the window in a temper several times. I had the whole thing completed bar the glue up. I did my final planning of the joints to get everything nice and flush and tight and did several dry fits with clamps to check everything was perfect before gluing it up. I was actually quite proud of my accuracy and the tightness of the joinery.
I aborted the first glue up as the top would not fit into the frame once glue was included and I frantically tried to get things apart from their half assembled state before the glue dried. This resulted in my pieces all getting mixed up - yes once again I didnt mark each component and its position - Doh!!!
After cleaning up the glue and waiting for it to dry, I re-sanded the joint faces making them a little looser and clean. However, I couldnt seem to get the pieces in the same order as originally intended and the joinery wasnt as tight. Attempt number two failed and resulted in glue over everything - Aaarrggh!!!!
Luckily my sanity allowed attempt number three - a charm! However, despite wiping all the glue up with a wet cloth and re-sanding everything again, the liquid Bees wax finish shows several glue stains. They could be sanded out with wax reapplied but Im going to leave them and wait for everything to just age.
This stool is going to be used to stand on for easy access to kitchen cupboards and as a general useful item around the house so its going to get marked regardless... and I simply cant be bothered!
I may not be able to build fine furniture yet, but its useful furniture none the less! ...
Christmas Mantel Ledge Ideas
Hi everybody! Its the middle of the week, Ive got tons of work to do working on our new shop and bread boards so this will be short and sweet. I hope everyone is having a great week so far.
We dont have a fireplace, though I sure wish we did, so I use this ledge that I built for our mantel. I always try to keep it simple when decorating it for the holidays.
Just some simple greenery that I clipped from some trees in the woods, bright white candles, some silver candle holders for a little sparkle and I added these vintage spools for some warmth and because they look a little like candle holders.
I think it all goes perfectly with the rustic pallet bench hubby and I built.
I made the stockings from leftover pieces of canvas painters dropcloth and then wrapped the tops with jute webbing for a little texture.
And some nights, we remove the stalkings, add a bunch of candles to the top of the bench, light them and pretend its a fireplace. Hey, you do what you gotta do, right?! Im off to work!
Have a wonderful day everyone!
Be sure to link up to the Mantel Link Party at Rhodas! Lots of fantastic ideas!
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Home Office
Hello! Lots of changes going on in our house and so that meant finding a new place for our office. We didnt want it in the bedroom anymore because were trying to keep that room a relaxing place so the next best option was our rarely used living room. So, I carved out a little corner and heres what I came up with.
Excuse all the cords. I just cant figure out how to hide them. The cow watercolor painting came from this Etsy shop and I am completely smitten with it. She does all kinds of animals if youd like to check it out.
The cute little owl lamp came from Walmart, believe it or not, and I love it. I made the yardstick planter and maybe I will do a tutorial on it in the future. It wasnt easy, let me tell ya.
Ive been collecting vintage drawings and paintings so I gathered them all up and put them in a basket beside the desk.
I have changed this room quite a bit so I hope to show you more pics of the finished room soon!
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Excuse all the cords. I just cant figure out how to hide them. The cow watercolor painting came from this Etsy shop and I am completely smitten with it. She does all kinds of animals if youd like to check it out.
The cute little owl lamp came from Walmart, believe it or not, and I love it. I made the yardstick planter and maybe I will do a tutorial on it in the future. It wasnt easy, let me tell ya.
Ive been collecting vintage drawings and paintings so I gathered them all up and put them in a basket beside the desk.
I have changed this room quite a bit so I hope to show you more pics of the finished room soon!
Have a great week!
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