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Pretty spalted maple. A cool floor lamp I think?!?

Pretty spalted maple. A cool floor lamp I think?!? #grasshopperwoodworks #workinprogress #floorlamp #madeinpdx

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Heart Tea Light Holders

In the spirit of spreading love and light, we’re offering a new product: heart shaped tea light holders. The first batch we’ve madeĀ a deep, rich mahogany, with an offset holder for a tea light. We also have a slightly lighter mahogany version with a contrasting maple stripe. They are cute, fun, and we love ’em. […]

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New Year, New Skills

Last year, we learned to make wooden things that were straight, flat, and “square.” Square in this case isn’t about having four equal sides with 90 degree corners but, more about perfectly regular polygons in one or more planes. We also achieved some of the other basics like making air tight two part joints. This […]

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An Even Crazier December

We’ve already mentionedĀ that getting through November was pretty hectic. December was more of the same. While we haven’t really been selling stuff through our Etsy store, we have sold several boards and other stuff through our presence at Forage Homewares and through semi-custom orders. My guess is that over the next few months we will […]

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A Crazy November

November was a crazy month and we have just about recovered from it. The month started with equipment fails and repairs, followed by crazy product building, and ended with us having a booth at the Portland Christmas Bazar (the largest of it kind in the US) and getting product into a local store in a […]