Wooden Rings
Other Works
A cedar-lined floating-panel quilt chest made as a wedding gift for a friend
Rebinding a found mass-market paperback copy of Fahrenheit 451
Hand-tooled leather bracelets with brass snap
Leather-bound softcover notebook made of paper Trader Joe's bags
Grey cloth-bound blank account book in traditional German springback style with matte silver foil cover decoration
A green cloth-bound notebook of heavy off-white stock with holographic cover and spine decorations and edges
A dot paper notebook bound in orange cloth with a polished maple inlay and graphite edge
A handmade six-stringed acoustic folk instrument made of white oak
Ceramic exhibition; an undergraduate senior thesis from Cornell College
Copper and wood grain are a winning combination in my book. When I read about at-home steam bending using just a glass of water and a microwave, I obviously had to try it, and I thought some plain old copper wire would make for an easy inlay. These two rings are bent, layered birch veneer, constructed and finished with CA glue, with copper wire inlays, which I set in with CA glue, filed down, and finished the same as the rest of the ring, sanded to about 12000 and polished with local beeswax.