Category: Joinery and carpentry
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Barber Shop Merchandise Shelves
The esteemed Maloney’s Barber Shop has had me back creating and fitting new shelving, between the barber chairs, for showcasing all the merchandise. This lot of 7 wall-hung box shelving is made from reclaimed tongue and groove timber and pine plywood, all oiled up with natural linseed oil. The second stage was making 19 tiny…
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Custom rat bike for Maloney’s Barber Shop: stage 2.. hand-lettered sign: completion
Every now and then stuff falls into place and I end up building something particularly rad for a special person or business. In this case the person was the all round extremely nice dude/ business manager Julian Maloney and the business is Auckland’s well respected Maloney’s Barber Shop. The shop was in need of a…
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Wordplay blocks for Tongan Language Week @Auckland Art Gallery
Round two of the children’s interactive poetic-play blocks. I was asked by Auckland Art Gallery to revamp Wordplay with a set of custom Tongan/English Language blocks for Tongan Language Week this week. Check it out now in the story corner at the gallery.
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Custom Rat-Bike for Maloney’s Barbershop (stage 1)
Julian at Maloney’s Barbershop brought me a curious mid 70s beaten up old dusty Raleigh Arena that had been remodeled several times, leaving an interesting patina of paint layers. He asked me to give it a once over, with the idea to install a handmade wooden sign into the frame to park it outside the…
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Game pieces for the Orchard To Lunchbox game
Recently I was commissioned to build some wooden components for an educational game designed by The Open Fort. Using mostly 9mm birch ply / pine/ purpleheart and lots of jigs, routing, mitre saw cutting and pattern-making I built a whole bunch of mini apple crates, some delivery trucks, hand-held forklifts, apple trees, sorting trays, flagpoles,…
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Ramona’s playhouse
This is my latest client. Ramona, and her human keepers, required a piece of very special recycled wooden furniture for a very small and active cat. Ramona just can’t be satisfied with such measly store- bought climbing poles, and the curtains were starting to look a bit wounded..
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Cedar weatherboards turned into chalkboards and poster display case
Cafe Verona, K Rd
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Upcycled wooden cafe tables
At cafe Verona, 2 plastic fake-marble tables just didn’t fit in anymore..
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A wee house for sandwiches and doughnuts
Here is a small counter top food display made from entirely recycled or offcut wood. 90% NZ native recycled rimu, kauri, matai rescued from broken furniture, renovation offcasts, etc. I wanted to make sure it showed off the wares and blended in, as well as fitting the tight functional requirements of the constrained bar space.…
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Coracle building at the NZ Gaidhealtachd festival
In the first week of January 2015 I held a coracle- making workshop at the Gaidhealtachd (pronounced erm.. Gailtackd), a small community festival based on culture and music of the various Celtic nations, held annually in NZ. Me and my friend Caleb supervised the construction start to finish and we had dozens of helpers…
Josca Bicycle Repairs 