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Custom Brass Desk Lamp

Desk lamp made of offcuts and brass samples from the shop where I work. The brass was a sample, and the base is walnut finished with lacquer. The inside of the box is painted white to help reflect the light out onto the desk.

Custom Brass Desk Lamp

The challenge with this piece was largely the angles of the struts that supported the 'shade'. I used a forstner bit to make the hole for the post, and underneath there is a routered slot for the wire to fit into.

2 Tier Coffee Table

Made of CNC offcuts from various projects, rounded sides and two toned stain. Simple pocket screw connections into plywood for the legs.

2 Tier Coffee Table progress shot

Earlier version loosely assembled pre finish.

Create Theater's New Works Spotlight Series

Props Designer

Finding Madame Curie

Ocean in a Teacup

The Golden Cage

Sewing the Dream

RWS Haunted House Props Work

Alien Eggs, or Mutated Plant eggs, plastic welded Easter eggs coated in spray paint and glue mixed with dye.

Eggs as installed on site in the house

Assorted additional Haunted House props, aged and scuffed with dyed glue, epoxy, latex paint, spray.

Voodoo Doll for Costumed Character

Aged and sewed a voodoo doll to match a costumed character

Voodoo Doll Pre aging

Original Doll

Aging test

Initial outfit

The costume to be matched

Furniture Fabrication and Repair, 2020-2021

Chair from the street, water damage and gross peeling vinyl

Light sand, happened to have a matching stain for the water damaged parts. I redid the vinyl with extras from another 70s job.

Reupholstered Chairs Before

Old twead mid century chairs in a cracked ice vinyl

Reupholstered chairs After

Some bunching, especially on the back in the channel, but very content with the result for my first work with vinyl.

Roll Front Desk Restoration

Savanarolla Chair Repair

Broken back on antique hand carved throne

Inlay cracked in the separation was glued back into place after clamping

Several small fractures were caused by poorly placed former repair nails, small breaks were allowed to glue up first before total assembly

Glue up went smoothly as the ridges of the chair offered many good holds for clamps. I used hide glue, and remaining gapes were filled with a melting wax stick.

Before image on Rolltop desk

Needed repaint, refinish, as well as two missing drawers.

After Image of Rolltop Desk

Redone in light grey with natural wood stain. Two simple drawers were also made.

Standing Bar for Art Gallery, made in such a way that the front panels can be removed by pulling the bedspring boards and loosening two screws on one side. This way, artists could tag or paint on the panels and they could be replaced and displayed between showings.

Standing bar, final finish.

Leg lamp From a Christmas story

I just wanted to make this one. A friend of mine gave me the leg, and the rest was goodwill hunting! The box was made from an old pallet, and the electrics and shade I pulled out of a different lamp. Not movie accurate, as the leg I received was only a half leg. But a much better gift than little dinky ones they sell online.

Long Lake Camp of the Arts 2019

Above: Final detail work on individual dragon heads for She Kills Monsters Long lake camp 2019. The eyes were large glass gemstones. The heads were then added to 1 inch dowel so they could be individually moved the cast. Production photos unavailable.

Above: Rough Cuts of Dragon Heads for She Kills Monsters. Heads were modeled after the DnD dragons, and the styling of each color lines up with each of the chromantic dragons from that lore. General framework, slices were measured and cut with a hot knife, glued together with wood glue, and then carved with hand tools down to a rough shape.

Below: The next step was applying drywall compound to give it texture, to smooth out the corners, and to provide a surface for painting.

2019 Scenic Design for Eurydice. The Concept being, the Pier. The columns that make the living world (SL) are mirrored in the underworld (SR) as if we are seeing both the top and the bottom of the pier.

Above: More detail on barnacles and seaweed. Lighted Orb in use on stage with the umbrella.

Left and Right: Some more images of the globe, rope was tied around an LED globe to emulate a Japanese fishing lantern

Mary Poppin's Umbrella. Carved a parrot shape out of a spare piece of 2X4, painted it in the color scheme of the original parrot, and attached it to the base of an umbrella with a snugly fitted hole and epoxy. Production photos unavailable.

Above: Initial construction of cart, intended to be reused for multiple different shows. It was designed so that the door panels can switch sides easily, and is sturdy enough for a child actor (or in this case assistant props master) to be wheeled on and off in the cart.

Below: The cart being transformed into Mrs. Cory's Cart for Mary Poppins. Although the front wheels are functional, casters were added to the cart to provide ease of movement since the cast of the show was much younger than initially anticipated.

Looking back I would have painted the word 'conversation' on the front panel as opposed to making separate letters, and added more words across the fronts and sides of it since the end result still seemed a little bare.

Ohio Wesleyan 2015-2019

Trick Doll for Cloud Nine

Script called for a head that was cut off and sand to pour out of it. For safety the director changed it to the head being ripped off. Made two dolls, one that was just a normal doll. And a second, that had a PVC pocket on the inside, and a detached head with extra cloth on it.

Preshow, the PVC was filled with sand, and the extra cloth was taped to the dolls body under the clothes.

The actor grabbed the dolls legs and head, pulled apart, and sand poured out. The cross piece over the top was added to elongate the sand pouring time.

Final Look from Blood Wedding . The rose petals were simply bought online, however to get the proper dispersal and timing of the petals we tried a few things. Originally we tried a rotating tube with openings for the petals to come out of, however it ended up that a specific trash can, packed loosely with petals and overturned from the cats by a stagehand provided the most satisfying look.

Express Parade Float 2015

Final Product. for 1/2The back wheels were attached to drills that were attached to the float floor, and zip tied in the forward position so the back wheels were moving. The float was also lifted in the front to give the illusion that it was "going so fast that it pulled a sick wheelie."

Looking back on the project it would have been good to have a hot wire attachment for my tool to help smooth out the edges between the slices. I also would have made a better jig or a template for the wheels so they were more consistent.

Above: Rough Idea Model for 1/2 size foam indy car for local Express Employment branch parade float. For availability and timing reasons, polystyrene sheets were used. Each slice was measured and cut with a hot knife. glued together with the addition of some wooden shards to prevent slipping. Once glued a layer of drywall compound was applied to smooth out imperfections, to round corners, and to provide a layer for painting.

Beauty and the Beast 2015

Above: Two Carved Gargoyles for Beauty and the Beast. Hot knife on a foam block, glued to wood so it could be drilled into place. Painted in grey scale to match gargoyles.

Below: Shots from Tech Rehearsal. Both Sides were carved as the set was one large rotating piece

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