Blender Render

Mockup for sankaku Volume 01, a book of stories about people rethinking craft traditions, creative collaborations, and community-building in and around Tokyo.

dendrite table
dendrite table
dendrite table
dendrite table
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Dendrite Table

Sugar maple frame, buckeye burl top. Hand-cut joinery including wedged thru-tenons and angled dovetail. Inspired by George Nakashima's Conoid Cross Leg.

steel frame
steel-frame side table
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Bayview Pine Table

Square tube & solid round bar frame with beeswax finish. Salvaged pine cookie top with tung oil finish.

cliff house
cliff house
cliff house
cliff house
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Cliff House

A rural house perched off the edge of a rocky cliff. With AGATHOM Co., visualization by Michael Yoshimura.

walnut eating spoon
Walnut Eating Spoon

Roughed out with an axe, carved by hand, knife finished, and oiled.

drystone bridge
drystone formwork
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Salem Drystone Bridge

Completed with John Shaw-Rimmington, Mark Ricard, and workshop participants over 2 weeks.

balanced stone
Finding Balance

Stacking river rocks on the Athabasca River.

wasagathom model
wasagathom model
wasagathom model
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Wasagathom

A house in Wasaga Beach, for which I made this model and brought the drawing set up to building permit.
With AGATHOM Co., photo 1 by Pascal Arseneau, p.2/3 by Steven Evans.

Cary Leeds Tennis Center physical model
Artist Retreat model
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Architectural Models

Cary Leeds Tennis Center 1/16" = 1' scale model and Artist Retreat 1/8" = 1' scale model. I made these while working at GLUCK+ (f.k.a. Peter Gluck & Partners).

marble slab salvage
Material Salvage

Weathered marble slab awaiting processing — transformation pending.

bottle opener
bottle opener
bottle opener
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Bar Opener

Cold-rolled steel bar, shaped by hand and hot-blued. With a flat so it won't roll away.

wood workbench
chopping block
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Workbench

Tusk tenon knockdown design. Friction-fit oak planing stop.

Chopping Block

Pine cookie with tapered-tenon maple legs.

prototype
Prototyping

Scale model of a table with a spalted maple top.

prototype
Bike Repair

Wheel hub bearing cones: pitted, and re-ground. The setup: a wood-oil bearing block, cordless drill drive, and rotary tool.