RICHARD WEIGAND’S BLOG
Fairing the Curve Pt 2
One might wonder what the most important technique might be for fairing the curve… It’s the old tried and true, doing it by the eye. Practice makes perfect.
Fairing the Curve
An interesting thing for a furniture maker is fairing the curve and looking at what that means. Something to consider when doing this is there are no real mathematical definitions or formulas for fairing a curve and what is correct and what is not. It’s all based on...
Wooden Skulls
Favorite Quote by John Ruskin – (1819-1900)
"It's unwise to pay too much but it's unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. The...
Firewood to Art
That bowl was made from a maple tree being cut up for firewood in a yard in Galax, VA. I saw it on my way to town. I stopped and got them to give the tree to me. It was heavily burled and had some rot, but I saw beauty in there. The bowl comes from a lot of 75 bowls I...
Interesting Quote
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -Leonardo da Vinci
Richard’s Journey to Artist – Part 3 of 3
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, and I...
Richard’s Journey to Artist – Part 2
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,...
Richard’s Journey to Artist – Part 1
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...
Shop doors & Fibonacci
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 the air. It's a very tough...