“Knitted and Drawn” Handmade violin and yarn 2023 This video is best heard through headphones. (The quality of the event will be lessened if heard through a phone.) Knitted and Drawn is the one time event of the internal yarn of the “Knitted Violin” being drawn out. Some images of the instrument are below, more available …
Glass Bottom Banjo: This banjo began as all good things do… as an idea that you can’t let go of. It was (and still is) an experiment. I didn’t know that some banjo heads are clear. As soon as I saw one I knew I had to print something in the back of it. A …
I was in need of a desk lamp for my office. The top of the desk I made a couple years back from some very interesting cherry. Cherry is very sensitive to light and I didn’t want to have anything sit on top to leave a mark from blocking the sun. The desk is a …
As part of a series of tools derived from body parts these Thumbtack hammers carry the form of the original tack hammer used by upholsters. Tack hammers are normally magnetic at the end of the split to hold a tack in place while it is being set. Mine could not be as they are cast …
The Mugshot Canjo (can banjo) is made from an acetone can striped of its paint and repainted to hold the images of Australian Mugshots from the 1920s. I am not a Kentucky native but after living in Kentucky for the last 11 years I have come to call it home. I thought it was a …
These non traditional hammers are used for adjusting the iron (blade) in traditional wooden body hand planes. They are cast in Silicon Bronze and have scorched ash handles.