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Showing posts with label Custom metalwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Custom metalwork. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Music Stand Hardware

Music Stand Hardware


Sam recently made some hardware for a music stand that his friend Josh made. It allows the height and the angle of the music both to be adjusted. The ball on the bottom of the height rod adds some weight and stability to the tripod base as a bonus feature. Nice design and execution I thought. The stand itself is made from yellow pine and purpleheart; also a nice design and execution.

Friday, January 23, 2009

A New Custom Light Fixture

A New Custom Light Fixture


Plugged in in the shop .. On location it will cast light up,down and to the sides

Future home of the light fixture

Looking down into the top .. compact florescent 60w bulb

Sam just finished this custom light fixture to go with the Contemporary Railing he made back in the fall .... It's constructed from extra pieces of the hollow posts he cut during construction. The stripe down the front is a piece of figured redwood veneer on plexiglass which looks good whether the light is off or on ... Click the photos to enlarge them ...

Friday, January 16, 2009

Cool Item From The Metalshop

Cool Item From The Metalshop


The flowers are flying ... Sam made three roses last week and this 'lilly' on Monday ... can't wait to see what he does with them ...

on the 'stem'

Sam has been checking out some instructional video stuff on the internet .... This, aparently, was a good one. Cool object ... Click the pictures for better viewing ... he's made a couple more since this one ..going for a bouquet I think ... each one gets better ...

Thursday, September 18, 2008

A New Railing Project

A New Railing Project

Sam finished up his big railing project this week. no picture of the dog gate at the bottom of the stairs yet. I think it's a stunner .... The clients do too ....

Down the stairs .... The posts spacings we're unequal, which necessitated a little creative spacing and design .... Actually it makes it more interesting I think ....

8/27 ... Straight sections are in ... on to the angled stair railings

8/20/2008 ... Sam's on a roll .... He's underway on a rather extensive project he's been designing and refining with the clients over the past couple of weeks. He took the time to make an accurate CAD drawing which we were then able to use to cut an mdf assembly jig on the CNC. Also from the same drawing he was able to get accurate cut lengths and precise angles, a huge time saver when you're working on a project with this many repetitions. I believe the bucket of parts has all the short, angled, cut medallion parts for the straight sections. Ready to weld tomorrow .... We'll need to make another angled jig for the stair sections .... Click the photos to enlarge ...

The railing actually loops around a balcony but is shown stretched out straight here ... looks like 35' plus the stairs

The CAD drawing with the angles and cut lengths. We can put a drawing like this, if it''s the right type of file, into our router toolpathing program and pretty much start cutting...

The finished jig

With some of the parts

Progress 8 22 ... the four straight sections are welded ... Here are three of them
This one has the finish on it .... it also has a small design wrinkle in the lower right hand corner
1st section in the jig

Monday, September 1, 2008

Blog Table of Contents

Blog Table of Contents

I've been writing this blog now for about six months and some of the early stuff is buried so deep you'll never go back there to see it ... Soooooo, to give it some second life, I've decided to create this "map" of the blog with some photos and archive locations. Click on the pictures and see if there's something there for you ....

New custom metal project,Lotus bed,Fix the pics, (a photoshop tip), Custom cnc projects

February and March .. Bubinga Art Deco pieces .. A crotch mahogany console.. An expanding table with inlay start to finish, A mango wood desk with inlays, A fancy Art Deco bench with a CNC video

April And May ...Some Arts and Crafts stuff, A Greene and Greene Sideboard, A Resonator Guitar (Open Studio) and How to make Greene and Greene Hardware

November and December 2007 More Art Deco Pieces, Foam core mockups and other visualization tools

May ... Arts and Crafts mantle and hinge fabrication, December more Art Deco

Custom Metalwork ... Custom snowboard contest trophies, Custom stairway railings, A giant single slab of walnut table, Wood and metal potrack ... Old metal A 1970 Cutlass Supreme

Scroll down for newer unindexed posts .... More to come .... Enjoy