Dear Steve,
I bought a chair from you at the CraftsBostonSpring Show after it jumped across the room from me as I approached your booth at the Cyclorama. What I didn't get a chance to tell you, is the experience of walking it out of the show past many artists, all too busy with their own shows to appreciate what you brought to yours. One woodworker said, " That chair was not made...it was born..." My experience of your work is to have changed by understanding of furniture all together. I now see it as an irreproducible piece of work resulting from the inspired union of artist and his medium in a singular moment in time. Every matched grain, precise joint, non-linearity of your pieces is testament to how deeply you have almost single handedly recreated my concept of furniture. I have decided to renovate an old guest cottage on my property to be a live-in museum of my favorite artist's works to be shared by other artists otherwise too dedicated in their work to have the time to appreciate and be inspired by yours. I look forward to expanding my own experience of your pieces over time and thank you deeply for what has taken a lifetime to develop as a craftsman and artist to share with us as you do. Your vision and work will long outlast you and me. I am grateful to share in this singular moment and encourage other readers to not underestimate the enormous difference in experiencing your work live rather than through the glossiest of internet pictures. The nuance of grain, texture, color, smell, all as the process of bringing your vision to form is not able to be fully captured except in person, in your home, over time as I appreciate your chair more with every experience of it. Very gratefully, Todd
wood Baby Box for Wally #dovetails #babybox
The box is really built as 2 stacked boxes- the bottom one is 1/2" thick basswood ( 7" wide) and the top one is 3/4" butternut (3" wide). The boxes are joined with 5mm x 30mm domino tenons (12 of them). The rosewood strip reinforces the handles. If you look closely, you'll notice that the dovetails joining the boxes are cut opposite for each box so that after assembly, all corners are locked together. There are 2 hickory runners fastened to bottom that extend past the box and lock one end into the wood rolling base. The other end is locked in with a 5/32" brass pin. The base is from an old office chair refitted with roller blade wheels. Inside dimensions for the box are 27" x 16 1/2" and takes a standard mattress and fitted sheets that you can get from the baby box co.
April Shows
April will be a busy month for me. I'll be showing my work along with my homies at the Lexington Woodworker's Guild show in the gallery at The Lexington Arts and Crafts Society (130 Waltham St.) from April 14 - 29. On April 20 - 22nd I'll be at the CraftBostonSpring Show at The Cyclorama put on by the Boston Center for the Arts (https://www.societyofcrafts.org). At the end of April (28 &29th) I'll be participating in Lexington Open Studios. A chance to see my work in person.
made a frame saw, finally. red meranti w/15tpi pull saw blade
Bench for the Lexington Community Center #sammaloof
So I was approached to design a bench that the Lexington Woodworker's Guild would build and donate to the Lexington Community Center. The design is really an extended chair. The idea for the middle legs was stolen from the conoid chair that I built last year. A half dozen of us built it over the winter last year in the Woodworker's Guild shop, a real fun project.
