When we started the Paper Bird Studio & Design website, we didn’t know we would end up making and selling easels. While a perfectly suitable name for our personal portfolio website, the name occasionally caused some confusion…
It’s been far too long since I’ve posted any updates. Here’s a brief overview of what’s new here at Paper Bird Studio & Design. I spent much of Summer/Fall 2017 recovering from an injury with a wood shaper that very nearly resulted in me losing fingers…
After many months of hard work, I have completed our new woodworking shop. It would be hard to overstate the improvement this new shop is over the absurdly tiny storage shed that I’d been using. More space, better lighting, more electrical outlets…
I have been contacted by many nice people wishing to purchase wall easels. Too often, I have been slow to reply and unable to provide an exact time frame for when I expect to resume selling easels. I should explain why. Earlier this year, we learned…
A number of artists have asked me to custom build extra tall wall easels for them. To ensure that the masts will remain as straight as possible at larger dimensions, I’ve redesigned them to be more rigid and lighter weight…
This is a followup post, providing an overview of how I went about constructing an artist taboret for myself for under $200…I cheated a little bit and started with an old, battered, mouse infested dresser that my parents had stored away for decades in a shed…