Well, it came time to come back to my country and enjoy the summer. After some intensive months at Inside Passage School of Fine Woodworking, an amazing school on British Columbia, for those who wonder where this is: I am now living the transition stage, which consists on working no matter what.
As our master's thoughts may say, do what you can with what you have. So I am now doing some work. It has been an evolutionary process, as everything in life. I will show you some of the projects I have been creating over the last month, all of them different and more important, have given me some thought about the work that I enjoy the most.
Well, I came back and surprise, somebody has been working here on the shop, losing no time in here, everything has an improvement in here, attribute this to my father, he's a doctor, but has always had the spirit of a woodworker and enjoys making his projects here on the shop.
He is working on this wood constructive system to innovate people's way of living. It is really interesting, and I'm glad to be helping with what I can on it. We can talk about this project later on through the summer.
Anyway, he made this shop look amazing over the last months, so here you can see the idea that he has, a doctor with some engineering and woodworking skills, I could attribute the creative side of my mind to him.
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| Main entrance of the shop. |
On the following days, I continued to settle up on the shop, unpacked my tools, and started to work immediatly. I got involved into a project that consisted on the creation of a storage unit. Nothing fancy, just a nice project to refresh my mind, and come back to do some work.
This is it.
I wanted to do something fast, that could be assembled on site on a short period of time, and I got it. It came out pretty good. I must say it was strange working with this scale of work after my first year at the school, I must reccomend to everyone to keep tthe scale of work to the best you can handle.
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| Shelving detail. |
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| On place now. |
Then I continued on my next project. This is a staircase prototype that I want to do on an appartment. For some reason, I have been working on the design for this staircase since last summer, this has had an evolution on this project, I have gathered more experience for resolving this project.
Anyway, I made the mockup for this staircase, something really simple and found a way of assembling it on the shop to make the installation really simple.
My engineer's brain always has always tried to find the way to simplify on-site work. I know the importance of working on your optimal conditions, that means on the shop, the more you can accomplish in here, the less work outside.
You can look at the mockup here.
I was really anxious to work with my hands on a different type of project, so I decided to start this box, something similar to the type of work we do at the Inside Passage.
This box was a very good exercise for me, it got me back on the sharpening station, it brought my hands back to my planes, on my chisels, and renovated my spirit.
It is a box with a sliding lid. This is the first time I do this type of lid, and it came out pretty nice. I used some local Pine I have had with me for some time. It is nice wood to work with.
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| Design stage. the mockup. |
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| Selecting the material. |
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| Started to do the "magic" |
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| Chisels back to work! |
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| Joinery Complete |
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| Dovetail Pattern |
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| Lid Procedure |
Then it was time to find a solution for the lid, It had to be something attractive, and I really didn't want to capture the contents of the box, which I don't know what they will be, so I came up with this idea. My benchmate, a good English friend made an amazing pipe cabinet, which had a ventilated door, the appereance was really clean, I liked the negative space created by the space between the pieces, so this was the starting point for my lid.
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| Top View. |
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| Slide, Slide |
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| Sliding door concept? future project. |
Let me say that sliding wood on wood is one of the more pleasant things to do, for those who enjoy furniture, you may know what I'm talking about, the sound, the touch, the feeling, just an incredible thing to do.
I will finish this on the next couple of days, still have to do the finishing and some pull mockups, so you'll see this finished on the next one.
I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoy writing.
Have a nice day everybody.
"Talent is cheaper than tablesalt. What separates the talented individual from the succesful one, is a lot of hard work."
- Stephen King
Cheers!
