Journal
Notes from
the bench
What the studio is looking at, cutting, and getting wrong. Written when there is something to say.
Workshop — March
On cutting a hide only once
A hide has one best answer and several convincing wrong ones. Where the fibre is tight, where it stretches, and why the first cut decides the last.
ReadMaterials — February
Two years of patina, side by side
The same wallet, one carried daily and one kept in a drawer. What sun, water, and the oil of a hand actually do to vegetable-tanned leather.
ReadStudio — January
Notes toward a walnut pepper mill
Chapter Two begins with grinding, not grain. Early drawings, a turned prototype, and the weight a hand expects from a thing it uses every night.
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