Having expanded my workshop with a dedicated metal welding and forming station, I can now build metal legs for furniture (or other basic welding needs) in house. If you have a project in mind, please reach out!

Though I’ve been on hiatus with blog content, I haven’t been on break in the workshop! With this post, I highlight a few recent projects I’ve done around the Bay Area. If you have a unique project in mind, I’d love to hear from you as well!

The most interesting and rewarding projects are those where the client has a deep emotional attachment between what I’m building or repurposing: refinishing a rocking horse, repurposing the shelving from an old office, or building a shadow box to show off heirlooms from a storied career. Here I touch on a few of those projects I’ve been privileged to work on over the years, including the steps I take to make sure the treasured centerpieces do not get damaged in the process.

With the completion and delivery of this seven-piece system of art deco cabinets, I wanted to share some finished photos, a few learnings along the way, and a lot of progress photos to document why fabrication took nearly three full months.

A preview of a beautiful art deco inspired room divider and storage system that is now in progress. With about a thousand pounds of raw materials, and an estimated three months of full time labor to bring it to fruition, I am as excited to work on it as I am to see the finished product. Get a sneak peek of the finished piece here.

Finding homes for beautiful scrap wood is a constant challenge for me; I’m always on the lookout for projects (or collaborators) that can put smaller and odd-shaped pieces to use. This design both caught my eye and was perfect for some pieces sitting in the workshop. Learn about the joints and fabrication of this unique piece, including a detailed dimensioned drawing to aid you in building it yourself!

I’m privileged to have had the opportunity to work with many skilled artists and craftspeople in my different projects. In this post, I introduce the amazing work of Jun Yang & Lucas Elzayek, with lots of photos of some of the recent projects that we’ve worked on together that show the progression from idea and raw material to finished product.

Carving Braille into a simple wood coaster introduced a lot more design and usability complexity than I initially expected; this post shares a few of the design considerations, and the implications of those issues on machining time.

If you’re considering some built-in furniture, these before and after transformation photos of projects I’ve worked in the last year might help you flesh out some of your ideas: natural wood, or painted? floor-to-ceiling, or just partway up the wall?

The 2018 “Wine & Art” street festival schedule for Branching Out Wood.