Circular Reasoning
The circular reasoning table was made as a commission where the design constraint was to use an existing piece of glass for the top. The constraint challenged me in a good way, and I love the way the design came out. This table too a long time to complete. I wrote a little bit about it on playing possum collective's website. I also wrote a poem about the form of the table.
going around and around and around
a circle broken in half
unable to find wholeness again
until an oval comes to unite them
you can never be the same after you have been broken
but you can heal and find a new shape
BCE Table
The BCE Table is a table made with a wheelchair user in mind, my brother in particular, Brian Christopher Edmonds (BCE). The table was made during my apprenticeship with Richard Shrader. The cantilever design allows for a wheelchair to navigate easily around the table. The top is an angled torsion box made out of hardwood and plywood walnut. The base is comprised of eight pieces of steel, laser cut to size and then tig welded together. I learned tig welding techniques from Donald Cope, in Athens, Georgia.
Angled Book Tree
The angled book tree was a design developed for a class for Tarweed Folk School. The design constraint was to build a fun, functional piece of furniture in a short time with minimal joinery. Chinquapin was used in the example below.
Romito Floating Shelves
The floating shelves were an answer to a design constraint of open shelving in a new construction kitchen in Athens, Georgia. The oak used was left to air dry, but it was left out a few too many years and bugs were able to feast on the wood. As soon as I saw the oak, I fell in love with the pattern left behind by the bugs. The oak was kiln dried to kill the remaining bugs and deter additional ones. Threaded rod is hidden steel pipe, with square bolts were used to give a clean industrial look.
Twist Series
The twist series was completed while apprenticing with Richard Shrader in Athens, Georgia. I was learning and exploring welding and blacksmithing. Each piece has a steel base with mig welded construction and one cross piece that was heated, manipulated and twisted in a forge. The wooden tops are walnut, white oak, and reclaimed heart pine sourced from a dye factory in Alabama.
Robot Cabinet
The robot cabinet is a bedside table with hand cut dovetailed drawers, shop sawn veneered door and drawer, and hand shaped pulls. The cabinet is built with fumed white oak, and it was completed during my furniture intensive at Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. The completed cabinet reminded me of a sweet little robot that might bring the Jetsons a needed convenience.
PK Bench
The iconic Peter Korn Bench was made during my furniture intensive at Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. Peter Korn founded the school and has taught thousands of students woodworking. This foundational piece teaches students hand cut dovetails and a wedged through mortise and tenon. This bench is a favorite of mine because it is a reminder where I started and how the legacy of my woodworking education connects me with so many others.
Heart Pine Table
The Heart Pine Table was built from reclaimed heart pine beams salvaged from a building in Georgia. Heart pine is a wood that was used extensively and unsustainably in flooring and construction in the early 20th century in much of the Southeast. I was very happy to give this beam a second life, and re-use this wood. The Piedmont Bureau of Reclaimed Wood, now Oneta Woodworks in Athens, Georgia milled and resawed the beam. This was the first piece of furniture I built after my first stint of studying at Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. I was advised by Mark Poucher, who generously offered design advice and the use of his shop as I was getting started.
