by Richard Weigand | Mar 2, 2018 | Richard Weigand
All this urge, this drive that was ignited at that moment during my childhood, has never left me. Somehow, this brought me to the mountains in Virginia where salvaged, beautiful hardwoods took my fancy. I’ve been a custom furniture maker now for almost 15 years,...
by Richard Weigand | Feb 23, 2018 | Richard Weigand
Since then, I have always been interested in art, but it took a while for me to settle on the way I want to live it. I watched my older sister struggle through the educational system trying to understand her own artistic abilities and interests. I sampled art history,...
by Richard Weigand | Feb 2, 2018 | Richard Weigand
I remember as a child, watching my father drawing Robin Hood. It was so cool; I was amazed that he knew how create something like this, to pull it from his mind with paper and pencil. I think that might have been the first moment for me. It opened my eyes to art, to...
by Richard Weigand | Jan 26, 2018 | Richard Weigand
This is the first of a pair of 36’x80″ doors for the addition to my shop built a few years ago. I made it from hand cut air dried oak I’ve had sitting around for 5 or so years. It’s a combination of red and white oak, rough sawn and dried in...
by Richard Weigand | Jan 19, 2018 | Richard Weigand
Never forget the material you are working with and try always to use it for doing what it can do best. If you feel yourself hampered by the material in which you are working instead of being helped by it you have so far not learned your business anymore than a...
