I am a product designer. I discovered woodworking and fell in love with it. I love to transform a pile of wood and an idea into something real, tactile. I have a small workshop at home with some nice tools, and now I am starting to make furniture. I know it isn’t much, but… I would like to show you guys 
Cool! Are you steam bending or laminating in a jig? I assume you built up the chair seats in a jig out of plys. Never tried anything like that myself but they look great. Love the way you made use of the heartwood / sapwood contrast on the table. Interesting choice of using two layers and wide material.
I have a tv stand in the sketch up stage. Just milled up a table for the crew room at work out of some walnut veneer sheet stock that has been sitting around our shop forever. Quick and dirty really, but the walnut makes for such a dramatic finish. A little overkill for our crappy crew room. Gave my final coat of lacquer this afternoon and hoping to assemble tomorrow if I get some time. I’ll post an image when I get it assembled.
I adore the bookcase (picture 1) and the table (picture 6) and the little shelf unit (picture 7.) Those are items I would be proud to have in my home!
The chairs are nice, certainly: lovely design, to be sure. I think they wouldn’t serve for me, as they look a little too light to bear my weight. They look like good children’s room chairs.
The clear plastic chair (picture 5) is especially pretty! I’d love to have a bookshelf fashioned in the same sort of design: wood and clear plastic. But there’s no way I’d ever feel right putting my weight on it!
(You know how WWII bombers would have stencils on their side indicating how many factories they’d bombed? I should have a series of tattoos on my butt indicating how many chairs I’ve broken!)
Seriously, though: very nice design! That bookcase is one of the most lovely things I’ve ever seen. I especially love the indented “V” shapes of the uprights at the ends of the shelves. It invites displaying statues and vases and objets d’art!
Very professional.
Those are all lovely!
Is the chair in photo #4 all wood?
No steam at all. I use plywood, moulds, a lot of glue and patience. I still have the moulds at my workshop and will take some pictures tomorrow. The chair seats were actually bent over the chairs. The chair was the mould! Saved me some time.
I would love to work with walnut. I am in Brazil, but wood is not so cheap here. We do get some quality hardwood from amazon rainforest, but it is certified wood and costs thousands of dollars. I use cheaper wood - cedar, garapeira (brazilian hardwood that is used usually on roofing and floors) and stuff like that. I can’t wait to see your project! 
Believe me, those chairs are STRONG. Their legs are 2x2s. and they are HEAVY. They have a lot of glue on the seats… and glue is usually stronger than wood. (glued joints break up on the wooden part, rather than on the glued!)
I built this bookcase for a good friend of mine. 400 dollars worth of wood there. The cool thing of this bookcase is that you can actually disassemble it and change the order of the shelves, as they have different heights.
The little shelf unit is actually also a night stand and a bench. You can pile it up with more units and it becomes a bookcase. And the coloured shelve is on the right height to hold a nice cup of beer.
Nope. Yellow thing is a fluffy comfy seat… everything else is wood.
THANK you, guys! This made me really really happy. I am working now on a new computer table for myself. Still figuring out the design, but soon I will post the project here.
Oh, you’re in Brazil…I was also going to comment on the nice tile and wood floors in those photos. Different style to what I see here in the US.
I have a friend whose husband is dubbed the “Hillbilly Genius.” He makes lovely furniture, toys, birdhouses etc out of recycled wood. Mostly pallets, or free wood he finds on craigslist. I have a folding table and two birdhouses he’s made. Not as professional-looking as yours, but I’m impressed that he can pull apart an old shipping pallet and turn it into a functional piece of furniture.
The next tool I want to buy is this bad boy: http://www.amazon.com/Makita-2012NB-12-Inch-Interna-Lok-Automated/dp/B000051ZOO
This will be quite useful to recycle wood. It would have made the building of the small bench/shelve/beer-chair/etc much faster… But I will soon run out of space. My dad just built a panta-router (a project from Mathias Wandel). He helps me a lot… It is always nice to have a helping hand. Those are all father-and-son projects, in the end.
Furniture like this enhances our quality of life more than most of us usually realize–I admire evident passion and talent. Thanks for sharing!
I stand (or sit) corrected! Very nice work! Speaking as a heavy bloke…thank you for thinking of that kind of extra strength and safety!
Wow! I think all of these pieces are really beautiful. I especially love the chairs. Thanks for sharing!
amazing indeed, and i love the chairs as well…
Those are lovely. Like the minimalist design, with classic lines in the chairs. Also love that two-tone table!
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No steam at all. I use plywood, moulds, a lot of glue and patience. I still have the moulds at my workshop and will take some pictures tomorrow. The chair seats were actually bent over the chairs. The chair was the mould! 
Saved me some time.
I would love to work with walnut. I am in Brazil, but wood is not so cheap here. We do get some quality hardwood from amazon rainforest, but it is certified wood and costs thousands of dollars. I use cheaper wood - cedar, garapeira (brazilian hardwood that is used usually on roofing and floors) and stuff like that. I can’t wait to see your project! 
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Ahh - I thought the shelf unit and night stand looked like what we get as ‘Brazilian Mahogany’ up here - and it is very expensive. Real Mahogany is rare now as there was a big run on it in the eighties, but I often have to match it when doing restorations (my main work). There is such a huge variety of species of tropical hardwoods, I am truly envious of the opportunity you have to try out the different materials. It is fun to experiment with alternative woods. The Western Red Cedar we use up here is not a true cedar but a completely different species, a beautiful wood but too low density for most furniture. I am making a 18’ cedar arch for our entrance as another spare time project at work - quite fun. I am guessing some of the chair legs are cedar? They have a lovely grain.
I do love the variety of materials in your work. The curves and colours make for some elegant pieces. Really appreciate the skill (and patience) that must have went into those seats. The dovetail corners on the night stand are great too - its design detail you see on some old Asian pieces and is great to use the joinery as a design element rather than hiding it.
Only the last one. All the chair legs are made with Garapeira. The transparent chair is laminated.
I always try to use as few screws and nails and stuff like that as possible. The dovetails were hard to make, but the end result made me really happy.
The Cedar wood I was talking about is Erisma uncinatum Warm. The Garapeira is Apuleia Ieiocarpa (Vog.) Macbr. Garapeira is really hard and produces a thin dust (which is quite itchy), so I think I will try to work with other kinds of wood.
Once again, thank you, guys!!!
Really nice work. Beautiful dovetailing on the last piece. I recently tried to add dovetailing to my skillset; it takes a while and a lot of practice to hand-cut them neatly and uniformly. It will be a while before I’m there.
really nice skills you have the w/ the finally product
thank you for sharing your work
Wow, very impressive! I especially love that red chair!
Gorgeous stuff, both the designs and the execution. My friend makes his living building and refinishing furniture, and you’re certainly of his caliber.
Here’s a bog post about his making a table out of…a table. Ok, it doesn’t sound like the best magic trick, but the old table was a wild and wavy colonial table. It was nothing like the table I got out of it.
Do you guys know if I can ship furniture to the USA? Because… A fisherman has to sell his fish.