Quince Winter 2015 – 60 Second Tasting Menu
Sputnik and Halfpipe, the walnut service pieces I made for Quince, make a short appearance in this video from Eater. Very nice.
Bread Plates for Quince
Chef Tusk went to Japan and brought back a wooden plate. He wanted them for bread service at Quince, but in Walnut. I made two samples. One in Eastern Black Walnut (Juglans nigra), the other in Peruvian Walnut (Juglans spp.) to match the bread boxes. The first few plates took me about half an hour […]
Vintage Rolling Pin Modification for Quince
Chef Tusk at Quince wanted to turn a vintage Italian rolling pin into a piece to serve Tortellini. I’m not sure how old the rolling pin is, but it has a beautiful old patina and I’d guess it’s somewhere around 50-75+ year old. It’s made of beech wood, which is normally much lighter in color, […]
Modular Bread and Butter Boxes for Quince
These bread and butter boxes will play a large part in the new menu at Quince. They’re modular, stack-able, and produced in Peruvian Walnut.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Prototypes for Quince
These are 5 preliminary prototypes, all turned on a wood lathe. The wood is Redwood, which was cheap to use for prototyping. They are finished with mineral oil. We had talked about the final versions being made from Walnut, which is shown in the last image. In all of these pieces, the lid and base […]