After much experimentation, I’ve settled on a process for finishing some wall easels with a deep, lustrous black finish. This is called ebonizing and is the result of a chemical reaction between iron acetate and tannins naturally present in some species of wood…
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…
There’s leaving a forest untouched and there’s clear-cutting a forest down to every last tree with heavy logging machines. Then, there’s a sustainable forestry practice referred to as restorative forestry, through the use of modern horse logging…
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…
For those who have asked about the availability of Tueller Wall Easels, I am indeed still making them! There have been some necessary delays while I’ve been making upgrades to my humble, one man woodworking operation…
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…