tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149671397386386982024-03-13T00:26:47.672-04:00Woodkilton Studio NewsKaren McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-6264744724660466092017-01-30T22:20:00.000-05:002017-01-30T22:20:01.322-05:00Kingston Wood Artisans Symposium<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be speaking again this year at the Kingston Wood Artisans Symposium on Saturday April 8th, 2017. Last year was a blast. Don't miss out this year.</span><br />
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<br />Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-77772740765367584152016-08-21T13:21:00.000-04:002016-08-21T13:23:54.142-04:00Piston Drawers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrda-hReVrtz1U2TGCGZJh1Y3Vaq5Uf-CGY8t9jliPSDiCxDsNlJP68rFqWTTBlmhCWl5tnmxx-sMAHj4wXdDvt9hyqmAKiIkvxbAuez6Tai5TB7P4xxDyfhzfAfc33VM8f9j1GJvdwA/s1600/K.+McBride-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrda-hReVrtz1U2TGCGZJh1Y3Vaq5Uf-CGY8t9jliPSDiCxDsNlJP68rFqWTTBlmhCWl5tnmxx-sMAHj4wXdDvt9hyqmAKiIkvxbAuez6Tai5TB7P4xxDyfhzfAfc33VM8f9j1GJvdwA/s320/K.+McBride-100.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My first article for Furniture and Cabinetmaking magazine describes how to make a round piston drawer. They are easier to make than you think, so go ahead and add one to your next piece<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can <a href="http://www.woodkiltonstudio.com/f_c_round_drawer.pdf" target="_blank">read the article here</a>. </span>Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-66444897707800283312016-08-02T21:22:00.001-04:002016-08-02T21:22:38.420-04:00A Video Tour<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A tour of my studio, the farm and my work, courtesy of Canadian Woodworking and Home Improvement magazine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a wonderful article written about me in the British magazine Furniture & Cabinetmaking.</span><br />
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<br />Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-54943687905968711472015-11-11T21:45:00.000-05:002015-11-11T21:45:09.757-05:00The Golden Touch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just what every piano leg needs... some gilded piano wire. This "piano leg" project it taking me places I never thought I'd go. Isn't that why we all step into the studio every morning?</span><br />
<br />Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-83368842795264397082015-05-28T18:18:00.000-04:002015-05-28T18:18:37.498-04:00Strength Test<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the results of a strength test I did for piano legs I am making. I will post more about the project later but here is a teaser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yup, I think they will hold a Steinway grand piano!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After making a "proof of concept" and many mock ups</span><br />
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Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-74823082694362738392015-01-01T14:59:00.003-05:002015-01-05T12:40:35.751-05:00Cutting Mortises for the Stern Chair<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is how I cut the mortises on the back of the Stern chair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Domino would not cut a mortise wide enough so I made a jig to accurately overlap two Domino slots. It took quite a bit of trial and error to get the hole spacing on the jig just right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When a client asked me to reproduce a Danish</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> rosewood dining</span> chair she bought decades ago in England, I was delighted. This classic chair had me in its grips from the moment I first laid eyes on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although the chair is seductive simplicity in its purest form, the joints for the chair were anything but simple to make. Even the smallest error while cutting the curved components produced a sloppy looking joint.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stretcher to leg joint was surprisingly difficult to cut</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the chairs were well worth the effort. Beyond their beauty, the chairs are some of the most comfortable dining chairs I have ever sat in.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The completed chair</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always built a spare chair (the understudy, if you like) when making chairs. This chair now sits in our dining room. When I walk through the house late at night the chair still catches my gaze and stops me in my tracks. I'll never tire of looking at it.</span><br />
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<br />Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-67120159700461745322013-04-01T21:48:00.000-04:002013-04-01T21:48:08.048-04:00Bending Chair Backs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My latest commission for two Danish chairs required me to bend air dried walnut for the chair backs. The 2" x 4" x 36" pieces of walnut were steamed for 2 hours and then bent to shape around a plywood form in a matter of minutes. The pictures below outline the bending process.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bending equipment at the ready, waiting for the wood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wood hot out of the steamer and clamped to the form, ready to be bent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A "Come-Along" pulling the wood around the form</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Switching to the second "Come-Along" to complete the bend</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In a matter of minutes the bend is complete</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10 days later the wood is dry and ready to be shaped</td></tr>
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<br />Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314967139738638698.post-19309536859528091932013-02-22T10:46:00.000-05:002013-02-22T10:52:42.153-05:00Ronald MacDonald House Ottawa<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>The Opening of Ronald MacDonald House Family Room at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)</em></td></tr>
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My steam bent, white oak sculpture is now hanging at CHEO after a month or more of my sawing, bending and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Hot pipe bending a white oak ring for the sculpture</em></td></tr>
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The sculpture is 6' x 9' and each ring is about 6" tall and 1/8" in thickness.The rings were bent on a hot pipe bender. The two outer rings were laminated together to create a solid anchor for the installation. The inner rings were bolted together with aluminium spacers to give the sculpture a light and airy feeling.<br />
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To provide the necessary support I created decorative webbing to link the rings to each other. The project was a wonderful design exercise - a great reminder of the positive nature of negative space.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Structural support masquerading as decoration </em></td></tr>
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Thanks to Ginny, Brian and Oliver and of course my Dad for their help with this project.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.christophersolar.com/portfolio.php">Chris Solar</a> not only has great aim with a chisel but he is also a web designer extraordinaire and a fine furniture maker. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chris designed and created this web
site for me. If it wasn't for him I would still be trying to reach my
target audience with posters nailed to telephone poles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks for all your hard work Chris.</span></span><br />
<br />Karen McBridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047651865632688973noreply@blogger.com