Christoph Niemann is an incredible illustrator who has a blog on the New York Times called Abstract City. Usually simple illustrations that just work so well at explaining what he happens to be talking about.
Yesterday’s entry makes me nostalgic for the city, and I live here.
Just got an Olfa Circle Cutter (from Amazon) in the mail yesterday. I played with it a little.
It’s pretty simple, basically a compass with a blade at the end, instead of a pencil. It can cut paper, cardboard, and thin plastic. Maybe I’ll get back into cardboard furniture.
So a normal person throwing a Super Bowl party would be cooking, preparing snacks, maybe clean up a little bit. Not me. I’m fixing broken chairs that I’ve saved from the garbage dump, so my guests will have a place to sit.
I’m using Liquid Weld Epoxy. This stuff is great. Works like a normal two part epoxy, but when it dries it is incredible strong. You can sand and shape it as well.
I found this chair on 87th St. One of the back rest connections was completely stripped, and I believe someone actually tried to fix it with chewing gum (seriously). A little liquid weld, a good cleaning, and this baby is good as new.
This chair was originally at my office, but after too many meetings it finally gave out. I shimmed it with some metal rods and added a lot of liquid weld. Eventually I’ll sand it down and make it look nice.
Happy Super Bowl everybody.
I framed some flat panel Legos, for a constantly changing piece of art. I originally wanted to use the classic large green panel (usually used as a yard). They’re harder to find than you’d think.
I think it would be cool if you had a whole wall covered in legos.
As I said before, my family has the Christmas tradition of making our presents. I finally got some of pictures of what my parents and sisters made.
My mom painted and reupholstered some chairs for my sister.
My one sister made a ceramic deer head for one of my other sister. It ended up looking very similar to this. Here is a pic of the armature.
One sister made a bracelet of Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs.
They also made charcoal drawings, scrapbooks, duvet covers, and much more. I just don’t have any pictures of them. My family does it up right.
I made a bunch of lamps with the pretty much the same shaped base. Basically an experiment to figure out what type of wood and finish I like best. I’ve been calling them Puck Lamps.
All of the lamps are for sale.
Bad pun. Decent mobile.
I was back in the Poconos for the holidays and took some pics of the ol’ shop.
I posted two new instructables recently, take a look.
Steps on how to wire a turned lamp.
And a quick instructable on how to build a simple tool to thread turned wooden lamps. This tool makes wiring wooden lamps very easy.
