Recently, I was reading Doug Stowe’s blog: Wisdom of the Hands. Doug had a post there about some testing of new tools he had been doing recently. In the post, Doug discussed that he did not want his tools to allow his work to “self-identify” with the viewer. His feeling is that if someone views [...]
Usually, I do not design pieces with very contemporary styling. However, when I was asked to design and build a table for my brother-in-laws vacation home, I knew that I would need to change course a bit from the more traditional. My brother-in-law and his wife’s tastes lean a bit more toward the contemporary side. [...]
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Blackburn’s third pillar of design which complements both Function and Construction is Proportion. The topic of proportion is something that I have written about here before. So, I won’t repeat too much of that information in this post but rather, I will touch on some additional design paradigms that are useful in developing proportion in [...]
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Building on the first post in this series, it’s time to explore Graham Blackburn’s second pillar of design: Construction. When one thinks of construction in woodworking, the first thought is inevitably joinery. While joinery is definitely one element of the construction of a piece of furniture, as you might expect, there’s more to the equation.
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Building on the information that I gleaned from the Graham Blackburn workshop that I attended, I wanted to go into a little more depth on the topics of design that were discussed. Very often when woodworkers think about designing a piece of furniture they only think about things like joinery, style and the finish of [...]
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