Turntable Stand / Record Storage
Adam needed a stand for his turntables with some storage for records and other stuff like that. It needed to fit in this nook next to the fireplace in the living room of his apartment.
Serving Carts for Cotogna
The restaurant Cotogna needed two serving carts that roll up to the tables. One for sweets and one for savory. I built a quick prototype to help them get a feel for the overall size of the cart.
Walnut Countertop Sink Cutout
Adam’s colleague had a quick little job to cut the hole for a sink in a walnut countertop. There are a few ways to do this, and having never actually done it before I wasn’t sure what would be best.
Serving Boards for Cotogna
Last month I made serving boards for the restaurant Cotogna. The restaurant already had some wood serving boards, so the new boards needed to roughly match what they had, except they would be longer, and each will have a groove for a bowl, or two grooves for small jars. The existing boards were made from […]
reflexiones murales
parked behind a car on the street at my favorite grocery store in berkeley (mi tierra foods). couldn’t believe the colors at first being reflected on the back of this car, especially on the chrome. just a plain toyota yaris but so psychedelic because of the colorful mural on the side of their building. made […]
wires
something about these wires criss crossing the sky made me smile when I looked up this morning on the way to work.
Canapé Serving Pieces for Quince
I was asked to make some canapé serving pieces for Quince. Based on the feedback from Chef Tusk, I turned more prototypes on the wood lathe. There were probably 4 or 5 iterations before finding a final shape that worked. This is one of the earlier versions, and I’m going to skip over most of […]
Gold Concrete Bar Production
Previous Post: Gold Concrete Bar Rubber Mold did some color tests to try and find a good color to make concrete look like gold. this is yellow base pigment in rapid set concrete mix. in the first test I used a 9% pigment load, which was too yellow. 1. 2 lbs. 1% load = 3.17 […]
VALENCIA Rainbow
The sun was setting and sitting at the stoplight the angle was just right to make an unexpected rainbow out of a street sign.
Serving Pieces for Quince
This was a quick production of serving pieces for a nice restaurant called Quince in san francisco. I was asked to make 28 of these pieces on a thursday night. I finished up the canapé pieces to deliver on friday and then got started on these after work. My neighbor didn’t like hearing the table […]
Gold Concrete Bar Rubber Mold
First the master is secured to a baseboard with silicone, surrounded by foam walls, sprayed with mold release, and then it’s ready to cast a polyurethane rubber mold (polytek 75-60). Pouring the rubber: The rubber is ready to remove after about 12 hours. Some air bubbles were formed from air escaping from wood because the […]
Polishing Rainbow
Everywhere you look, even when you’re in a bad mood and wet from polishing concrete samples, there is something beautiful to see and absorb. If you just pause for a moment to take it all in, you’re bound to see something that will make you smile. These are the thin layers of happiness.
Super Ellipse Concrete Tabletop Finishing
After a day or two the form can be stripped and finishing begins. This piece was stuck pretty securely to the base board, so the whole thing was flipped over in one piece and laid on some scraps of foam. After the silicone seal was broken, the base board was easy to lift off, but […]
Super Ellipse Concrete Tabletop Casting
“Husk at elske mens du tør det Husk at leve mens du gør det” “Remember to love while you dare to Remember to live while you do” – Piet Hein (1905 – 1996) After finishing the outdoor tabletop and using it for a few weeks, I started thinking about what kind of top to make […]
Casting Levelers for Contract Table Base
Levelers screw into the legs of a table base, which can be adjusted so the table doesn’t wobble. I have two of the herman miller contract bases, but one was without levelers. I thought the levelers from the one would swap over to the other, but the thread size and pitch is different between the […]
Gluing Shock Mounts to Concrete Tabletop
The final step in securing the concrete tabletop to the contract base is to glue the shock mounts in place. Here I’m using smooth-on metalset A4 epoxy, and tinting it black with dry pigment. First the base is centered on the tabletop by measuring from each leg to the outside edge. The base isn’t perfect, […]