End of the line...and the Globe Fall Sale - November 20-22

So I've come to the decision to close down my workshop at the Globe Studios. It's a great place and I'm sad to have to let it go, but I'm low on funds and time, so life will have to rumble on. My PhD has me spending time in labs doing things like motion tracking (seen below) and computer modeling, and this means I've been stretching myself thin.

I'll be working out of Globe until the end of December, so I hope to put on one more show sometime in January with the work I complete between now and then. I think it will mostly consist of lighting, and hopefully some fashion from a friend of mine (that is still TBD). There's also the Globe fall sale coming up on November 20, 21, and 22. I'll have a couple coffee tables and some lamps for sale, including this curvaceous beauty:

Lamp-o-mania

Now that I'm back from Italy I'm getting to work in my workshop with some new ideas. I'm currently working on some new lamps, because I really like lamps. The one below is inspired by the construction of a kayak and will use shoji paper for the screen. It's big! I think it's going to be pretty nice though.

I also just finished up this free standing, columnar lamp. It's made of walnut, curly maple, and mylar. I'm thinking that I might try to put together a little show with some more lamps and maybe get a friend of mine to put up some of his paintings.

I really like the heartwood/sapwood contrast of walnut, it's really a nice wood to work with.

Good Wood and a Little Lamp

I picked up some nice wood this afternoon and I'm excited to get working on it. First up is a big spalted maple slab. I've got it sitting on my workbench right now and it looks kind of right...

My electric thickness planer is definitely not wide enough to handle it, so it looks like I get to use my hand planes!

I also got some nice walnut slabs that will make some nice coffee tables.

I also just finished up a nice little fir table lamp. I had found this giant 12x4 piece of fir in a factory where I had my old workshop and had been lugging it around for about a year now. It's a beautiful piece of quarter sawn lumber and combined with a shoji paper screen I think it makes a nice little lamp.

Walnut Trees

I finished up my first project in my new workshop today, a curvaceous walnut lamp. I really liked working with the walnut, a wood that responded well to my planes and my saws.

Shop..ing

This is my new workshop located at the Globe Studios in Kitchener. I just moved in last weekend and I finally got everything sorted and built and ready to go. I'm starting on some lamps tomorrow and I'm finishing off a little shoji cabinet too.