by Peter | Jul 20, 2010 | At the Studio
When I bought my Hardinge turret Lathe I wanted to use it to make a specific part. It turns out I use it all the time. The part I bought the lathe to make gets used in my Callisto table, Jupiter Bench, Mercury bench, Radian table, and Tangent liquor cabinet. It is a...
by Peter | Mar 22, 2010 | At the Studio
I thought I would show some of the process that I use to make my Parallam furniture. I recently built a Convergence table- my parallam coffee table and took some pictures of the steps along the way. Parallam is an engineered wood beam made by weyerhauser. They are...
by Peter | Feb 3, 2010 | At the Studio
After I built the Torus Pedestal table I was still intrigued by the possibilities of creating joinery by milling chunks of aluminum. In designing a new dining table I chose to use a similar technique to create the joint where the leg meets the stretcher. My first step...
by Peter | Jan 27, 2010 | At the Studio
If you have ever had the opportunity to see my furniture in person, you may have noticed that all of the exposed stainless steel fasteners have a great luster to them. This is a finish that I have to create on my own. It is done with a metal lathe and, although...
by Peter | Aug 3, 2009 | At the Studio
I have been planning for some time to build a pedestal table to complement my Xenon Pedestal. The design I came up with references my Carbon hall table except that it uses an aluminum joint instead of the cast concrete joint that joins carbon’s legs to its top....
by Peter | Jul 8, 2009 | At the Studio
I had a commission from the Smithsonian Craft Show to create a custom length Carbon Hall Table. The size that worked best was five feet long. This required increasing the spacing of the cables and recalculating their lengths to achieve the same feeling as the...
