Flashback: Rustic Wood Side Table
Rustic, woodsy design is my absolute favorite, and I love working with found materials. This week’s flashback is the perfect combo of both: the Rustic Wood Side Table by Joe Szuecs from the pages of CRAFT Volume 08.
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Arduino-controlled firewood cutter/splitter
A month or so ago at the dump, I helped Michael harvest the optical sensor out of a skiing machine just as closing time descended upon us. As we got hustled away from the picking pile, he mentioned that he needed it to make a speed governor for a wood cutting and splitting machine. A […]
Belizean boats in Cholula
Replicas of actual old boats and sailboats – Last photo: replica of engine boat Rum punch. Shermac is a Belizean friend who comes to Cholula two or three times a year for a couple of months. He’s made these boats since he was a boy, in his hometown Mullin’s River, to play boat races in […]
Compact Design for Cozy Quarters: Seating Trays by Tanya Aguiรฑiga
Compact Design for Cozy Quarters: Seating Trays by Tanya Aguiñiga By Angelica Amesquita-Carter Tanya Aguiñiga, furniture designer/maker and resident of Los Angeles, Calif., gets functional in cozy spaces with these beautifully handcrafted, low, stackable seating trays with a container that doubles as a table. The idea behind the piece is to create a unique seating […]
Beam music in the attic
Bruno Mathez’s striking experiment with sound and light, Beam Music – What you’re seeing is a dark attic space in which the frames of wood and the pipes are being lit by a very precise ray of light, giving us the illusion that the light comes from inside the object. Each lit object has its […]
Rubberband-handgun fit for a holster
From the MAKE Flickr pool Andy posted pics of this here classically styled elastic launcher with a tung oil/selective stain finish. He notes it’s still a work in progress – either way, looks pretty darn ‘snappy’ as is.
Doha Chebib’s Log Bowls
Calgary-based Doha Chebib’s Log Bowls combine nature’s rough surfaces with smooth, glossy depressions, lending them an almost storybook quality. The 28-year-old University of Alberta design graduate turned to co-members at Edmonton-based Loyal Loot Collective, where she’s collaborated since 2004, to help execute her idea. After hand-selecting fallen and discarded logs that include wood from local […]
