This is another one of my cedar and steel creations. Like with the corner shelf, I was balancing proportions and spacings to make a piece that just feels and looks right. The constant use of a square was absolutely essential in keeping the frame true when welding. The little corner cutouts worked really nicely 🙂…
The plinth forms the center of the room and the first puzzle in the escape room. The purpose of the plinth is to house the amplifier and USB sound-card for the room, but also house a concealed switch and two mysterious press buttons. I mitered the corners of the plywood, because I’m not an end…
I had wanted to build a corner shelf for a little while and nothing that I had seen had been just quite right in my eyes. For me the design is all about balancing the dimensions of the timber to the height and depth of the shelves and the thickness of the steel. I made…
It was winter and I was held up in the workshop with the pot belly stove going, a lot of steel bar and a pile of reclaimed western red cedar. So I started designing and making a very simple wine rack based on the Arthur Umanoff wine racks. However unlike the Arthur Umanoff racks I…
When I got this book it was in pretty bad shape. It’s actually an old photo album full of tin-type photographs. and is used as a puzzle in the escape room. Some cloth webbing, acid free glue, leather filler/dye and many many many hours later. I think it came up pretty nicely.