Profile of master bladesmith Bob Kramer
Jerry Bowen, of CBS’s Sunday Morning, visits master bladesmith Bob Kramer. Kramer is one of allegedly only 114 master bladesmiths in the world. Kramer Knives More: Toolbox: Knives out!
Makers
Rubber bearskin rug
Cast in urethane by Dutch designer Eelko Moorer. White and black versions also exist. [via designboom]
Jeri makes rocket “candy”
Happy Lady Ada Day! I couldn’t let his happy occasion slip by without giving a shout-out to my favorite female uber-geek, Jeri Ellsworth. I am just so thrilled that a number of the maker-engineers that I look up to and admire are women. It’s encouraging to think of girls growing up with the likes of […]
Maker Business: Crestview Doors
David and Christiane Erwin, of Austin, TX, founded Mid-Century Modern door company Crestview Doors to provide other design conscious homeowners with an alternative to the colonial-style front doors you can get at a big box store (the Park house proudly sports the orange “Burbank” pictured below!). They now sell DIY Doorlite Kits so you too can build the door of your dreams. Read on to find out how this maker couple does it.
MAKE interviews Peter Atwood
Peter Atwood of Turners Falls, Mass. makes his living as a knife- and toolmaker. He produces limited runs of unique items every few days, which he then posts on his blog, Planet Pocket Tool. The name of his blog indicates his focus: small wrench-like tools. However, Atwood creates a wide variety of metal items like […]
Did someone say homebrewed Kegerator?
MAKE magazine contributor Bill Bumgarner (who wrote the “Pinball, Resurrected” piece in MAKE Volume 08), wanted a kegerator (keg refrigerator) for his homebrewed beer. He didn’t want to buy one (they can be expensive), so he built one. He started with a cheap Home Depot 5 cubic foot chest freezer. He extended the lid and […]
Featured Maker: Scott Teplin
New York based artist and illustrator Scott Teplin, aka Scott the Drawer, is a professional with an impressive resumé. He’s had solo shows all over New York and Paris, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Keith Smith’s 2004 The Structure of the Visual Book, to name just a few of his many publication credits. His work is in permanent collections at the Smithsonian, SF-MOMA, and Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities, again to name just a few. Lately he’s been doing some work for McSweeney’s. This from his Makers Market bio:
