I am very happy to recommend surferguy to help with your home renovation project. He is talented, meticulous, and is flexible to fit your schedule. I know he generally doesn't promote his renovation work but I thought I would throw out the link for the amazing work he did on my fireplace.
I just wanted to announce that Jack and Jade Home has just picked up my clocks for sale on their modern home decor website that caters to Canadians. I am now selling clear across Canada! Woot!
As always, if anybody is interested in any artwork or a clock for a gift or one for yourself just let me know and I will hook you up with the CP discount. It usually works out to be about half of the retail price!
Thanks for looking!
surferguy
EDIT: Forgot to add that CP's own Regulator75 took 90% of the photos for the Jack and Jade products. Can't say thanks enough bud!
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Just wanted to share my latest furniture progression:
The Vibormo Desk:
This desk was commissioned for an advertising executive based in Calgary, Alberta. The desktop features a solid two inch thick slab of California Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) which is at least eighty eight years old.
The live edge slab required six butterfly (dutchman) keys in order to quell further migration of cracks within the slab. The keys are comprised of black walnut and serve as a fantastic visual that provide a vital function. The one inch over arced ends do nothing more than look cool.
The chrome tube sled legs were custom manufactured and provide both a solid base and enough visual interest to notice them but do not take away from the real focus, the desk top.
This desk was handcrafted by Dion Brake and is 100% unique.
Feel free to share the video on Facebook and such, I would love to get some exposure for this project as this is a direction I would love to take my company.
Anyway thanks for looking!
Surferguy
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The piece is actually California Redwood and I managed to scoop it up off the local Kijiji-Bot of all places.
There can be some gold hidden in those pages!
But I do know of a few people here in town that can source cedar/maple/fir slabs. I do hope to make more of these, I have some ideas of my own I would like to try out which would really make the wood slabs stand out even more.
Some day....
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Really love the piece, but I would also like to point out that it's a pretty damn impressive feat to take a shot of downtown from a perspective that almost completely blocks out our tallest building.
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How did you cut into the plank for the dovetail key?
I made a template for the bow tie out of 1/4 plywood, scribed with a knife for the blade width accuracy (pencils are too fat) onto a solid block of black walnut.
I then cut out the bow ties on the bandsaw and sanded out any chatter marks.
From there I took each cut bowtie and scribed onto the slab across the cracks. I then drilled down into the "removal area" with a forstner bit down to 7/8" in depth.
Next up a plunge router to the same depth and slowly cleaned out the removal area leaving about 1/32 - 1/16 from the scribe lines. I then finished up with a chisel cleaning out everything up to the scribe lines.
from here, slop on the glue to the necessary surfaces then smack it down using a sacrificial piece of wood and a hammer.
Once dried I used a belt sander, then random orbit and then a thickness sander to get a perfect finish.
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Just a quick plug for my twitter feed as I am embarking on the next stage of a wine cellar I am building. I am posting photos while construction is going on if you are interested in seeing the process.
I am building a concrete encased room that will in the end look like a cave.
I am learning as I am going but these are the types of projects that you wish you get everyday. The room is currently boarded up with plywood and I should be starting to apply the diamond grid stucco lath today. Things will start taking shape soon!
