Wood is pretty amazing. It's versatile, organic, sustainable in most cases, and it retains it's life beyond it's living years as a tree. It has the ability to reconnect us with the qualities that make us human. It scars, and bleeds, it can be transformed and polished. It's something real. A piece of wood possesses a depth and a history that allows us to consider more deeply the world we live in. This is a collection of some of my more recent projects. Reach me at tyjones@shaw.ca
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Gluing Up The Top
Getting the top glued up is always an exciting step of the process. It’s the first real glimpse of the table that will be born of all these individual boards you’ve been sorting, cutting, planing to size, and straightening. Each individual board is flipped, turned, and rearranged to find which of it’s potential neighbours it will look best against. The first shot shows the boards positioned in order, and the last the glued up top with the clamps removed. (Have a slight repulsion for clamped-up work photos.)