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...
by Richard Weigand | Jan 12, 2018 | Richard Weigand
It’s astonishing, and humbling, to consider the history of a tree. On my property I have a 300 year old white oak. That’s older than the United States. Just think of what that tree has experienced, and what has happened during the time it’s been growing...
by Richard Weigand | Jan 5, 2018 | Richard Weigand
One of my favorite quotes is from John Ruskin: “The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.” Seems Ruskin is talking about growth, and beauty, and progress in an artisan’s understanding of art. How that is at least...
by Richard Weigand | Dec 29, 2017 | Richard Weigand
All trees have their own figure, which is not to be mistaken for grain. Grain refers to the overall direction the wood fibers grow; figure means the odd lines and shapes and knitting that occur when the tree’s growth has been interfered with, by nature or by...
