carbon based design technologies

The wood still needs some trimming and a sealant (thinking clear urethane), and the frame needs a’finishin’ too but hey! Its getting there!

Some before shots – she looks kinda beat, but there be gold in them thar hills!

Wood in process! Started out as one 13′ 2×10, then i rough cut them down to 15″ lengths (much easier to deal with), and now im in the process of slimming them down to 14×1.5×1.5″ peices!

Heidi’s side table is taking form! Just need to get it off to the powdercoaters and finish up the wood (right now its just in a pile)!

you know, where you keep cats. because they’re easy to control. right.

no so actually, whenever it got freezing cold at heidi’s her cats – Mitch, after Mitch Headberg, and Nikka (prounced “NEH-cuh”, after no one) – would congregate around whatever radiator was available. however, because their ridged tops are not really conducive to cat butts, they could only ever get so close, so heidi asked i make some sort of platform for them to chill out… er… warm up on.

voila!

mitch, giving the new shelf a very luxurious test-sprawl.

nikka, giving it an investigative strut-return-and-strut-again.

both made from reclaimed wood.

heres a towel rack i made, out of reclaimed scrap from around the shop. still needs a bit of refinement – i got to get my dado to cut JUST a hair shy of what it cuts when set to be .5 inches, but i know all it needs is a bit of experimenting. soon to be for sale in my new web store! more photos to follow once its ‘el perfecto.’

yes, i really drawr this bad. no really. its like, always been this way. but it also always turns out.

right, its just a log. but it WILL be something. soonly. and to boot, heidi just got me the BAD-ass tool i needed to convert this from log-to-table, a belt sander called The Dragster no less!

heres my newest table. erm,… it was designed to hold all my media stuff including my records. its made of 3/16ths 1.5″ angle iron, mig-welded together, and sports an annoyingly rare (read: hard to get hands on) all birch plywood top and shelf, which was quarter rounded and tung oiled. ill probly expound on this one later (im super tired right now, and about to hit the sack) but for now, im just lobbing a bunch of photos on line.

enjoy!

last spring, i decided that some garden boxes would be a good idea for the house, a good learning experience for me, and they would be a good place to grow some hot hot habenero’s.