I’ve been prototyping a pretty simple lamp using a piece of paper as the shade. A little fine tuning is still needed to get the dimensions right, but I’m liking where it’s going. I’ll probably group three or four of these lamps together with shades made from letter size (8.5″ x 11″) and legal size (8.5″ x 14″) paper.

Maybe go the kit route, I make the lamp base, you build the shade. More to come.

You can never have enough hammers. I’ve got a hammer thing going on these days.

I’ve been making wooden mallets lately. Mostly out of oak, mostly for food preparation (meat tenderizing, etc). I just like making them. Maybe designer mallets will be the new designer axes (I have no idea why, but I just want one of those axes real bad).

My sisters got me a branding iron for Christmas. They had to order it special, and it took some time to get here. But it just came in the mail the other day.

This thing is so choice, if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

I recently joined the Gowanus Studio Space. Finally a place I can make a big ol’ mess.

There are so many great people/designers/artists/tools at this place. And they have a lathe. Although, it kind of feels like I’m cheating on my wife with my new girlfriend.

Proof of concept to see if traditional stained glass window techniques can be applied to marbles. The plan is to use marbles of various size to create a shade or globe for a lamp. yes, another attempt at a lampshade.

The latest thing I’ve been working on are Monster Mirrors. Monster Mirrors are wooden framed mirrors. When one looks in the mirror, they become the monster’s next meal.

Came across these two great turned toys (thank you minor details). I love how simple they are and yet are pretty expressive. All of the artists are from Argentina, must be something great in the water there. I might have to rip these off.

el Ramon (scroll down) by Javier López Pereyra.

Familia Tipo by Gonzalo Arbutti & Marcelo Federico.