On Thursday, July 29th, Aster Hall is pleased to present woodwork by Charlie Moore and Raven Toney, featuring photography by Diana Lauderdale of FactoryCactus.
By focusing on the wood’s distinctive qualities and characteristics, Charlie Moore creates heirloom, one of a kind furniture that enables the wood to speak for itself in clean, organic forms. His smooth and sleek contemporary furniture style exudes a sense of timelessness and permanence. By highlighting the distinctiveness of the wood, the pieces take on an artistic attribute permitting form and function to become equal partners. His work functions traditional joinery employing the use of antique hand tools as well as modern power tools
Raven Toney is an artist who sees perfection in items that are overlooked or dismissed by other people. His furniture is made completely from salvaged wood: discarded planks, flooring, stumps, limbs, even leftover crown molding trim. Toney takes what others throw away, literally, and crafts gorgeous, functional art.
Diana Lauderdale was born in the Mojave Desert, Southern California in the 1970s, enjoyed the social upheaval of the 1980s and entered into the joys of parenthood within the 1990s. She has traveled this land extensively, served this country lovingly and reaches to touch the individuals with her humble and soulful approach to her Americana Photography. Diana is really a self-taught photographer and product designer with an overall goal of highlighting uses for recycled and salvaged materials
The event, which runs form 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. is totally free and all are welcome.
Drivers in no way know what to expect once they pass Virgil Theiss’ home on Spring Stuebner Road.
The 72-year-old puts out a steady stream from the wooden creations he sells, from playhouses with special touches to potting benches.
“I’ve been told I’m recognized all over,” Theiss stated. “Everybody sees them, and they’re always looking for me to put out some thing new.”
Theiss, who worked in home actual estate about 50 years, has regarded woodworking his hobby for about 20 many years. He started making items for loved ones members — particularly his nine grandchildren — and gradually started selling pieces towards the public.
He has crafted birdhouses and tree houses, garden products and furniture.
“The small building out there now is an old Western jail,” Theiss stated.
Displayed by the jailhouse are a number of pieces of brick and rocks that Theiss coated with paint to produce the effect of gold nuggets.
Theiss includes a knack for inserting his personality and sense of humor into the things he makes. His giant mailbox, for instance, was a response towards the presidential election.
“When the new president was campaigning, he promised the aged folks a big check, so I built a mailbox for it,” he said. “I’m still waiting for that check.”
Currently, Theiss is working on a log cabin playhouse. He’s also considering a playhouse modeled following a 1920s-era Spring bank.
“I adore the challenge of making something new each and every time,” he said. “It always has a new twist.”
Theiss, who has lived in exactly the same home his whole life, is a descendent of the German Theiss and Wunsche families. When he grew up within the 1940s, his loved ones was one of many that farmed the area.
“I can almost remember when the buffalo roamed,” he joked. “This region was considered the country.”
Theiss stated he learned quickly growing up that if he needed something, he would need to construct or grow it for himself.
“A lot of kids don’t think the way old people think,” he said. “I was taught to survive in good times and poor.”
It was that way of life that inspired Theiss to make points from wood, he stated. But now he has the pleasure of seeing others benefit from what he can do.
“People’s eyes light up once they see my prices,” stated Theiss, who sells playhouses that would go for $1,800 to $2,000 retail for as low as $550. “I charge just enough to cover my expenses.”
Theiss works with recycled wood when possible, and he makes it a priority to use non-toxic items.
Additionally towards the ideas he comes up with for items, he’ll make items on request.
“Bring me a picture, and I’ll construct it,” he said.
“I think it’s great, stated one of Theiss’ three children, daughter Dori Watto. “He’s really creative. I’m sitting here searching at my Southern Living magazine, and I’ve already marked two pages of points I want him to make for me.”
Watto, who lives on adjacent property to her dad’s, said she loves her father’s enthusiastic approach to woodworking, and to life.
“He’s really entertaining. The children love bringing their friends to meet Pappy.”
It is not unusual -- according towards the president of the Vancouver Island furniture organization -- for West Coast people to regard their trees "as one of the family."
"Many individuals are attached towards the trees on their property," claims John Lore, of Live Edge Style, "so if they lose one that's been part of the loved ones for a long time we can develop some thing out of it for them. It's a way of keeping it in their lives."
Usually the Duncan-based company salvages wood, with many individuals calling them in after a wind-or snowstorm. (It takes at least a year to air-and then kiln-dry the pieces: "You have to do it really slowly or else you get warping and cracking," he says.)
"There are not too numerous people looking for the large gnarly old maple trees; we have the marketplace to ourselves," says Lore, who also doubles because the firm's artistic director with jurisdiction more than picking the wood and having the last say on style.
He likes to take the less premeditated approach to furniture producing: "Ideally, we find the piece of wood and then choose what to make out of it," he says.
The company's name is its signature: "Mostly we like to complete things that have a natural aspect to them -- we like to leave on the reside edge, which is the growing component from the tree under the bark otherwise recognized because the cambium layer," he says, adding that the interior of the tree, of course, is stagnant.
It's up towards the consumer to select the table's base ( "a trestle is great for getting your legs underneath without having bashing them .<br>..," Lore says) and its general character.
The top from the native bigleaf maple about the Long Beach dining table, for example, can be "fairly rectangular with smooth edges or they can have it as wild as they want," he explains. "You can mix it with a pretty contemporary base and still get away with these crazy shapes, colours and knots within the best. Then every time you look at it you see some thing different and it keeps it fresh and interesting more than a long time. It is down to individual preference."
At first viewing, you really believe Fran Solar's woven Vessels are totally squeezable. Until you spy that the orange-ish hue is really hard copper.
It is a marriage of what the Squamish artist calls the "improvised play of the masculine materials with traditionally feminine techniques and forms" in her free-standing and wall-mounted work.
"It is really satisfying to be able to transcend the inherent qualities from the metallic materials -- often associated with weight and rigidity -- to produce types which are sensual and flowing in appearance," she says, adding that copper appeals due to the warmth from the colour. "Copper wire is effortlessly obtainable in many colours and gauges, and just like traditional fibres, it is flexible and can be manipulated and patinated."
Following many years as a conventional weaver and textile artist following her graduation in interior style from the University of Manitoba in 1960, Solar sees applying the exact same methods and ideas to industrial components like a organic progression. The end result, nevertheless, is deliberately labelled "vessel" in no way "basket."
"The latter word implies a practical use," she claims from the pieces that cost $350 and up. "I have a great deal of fun designing and improvising on the loom as I weave, taking the resulting wire 'cloth' and shaping it into a sculptural form that has no real function other than becoming some thing stunning and pleasurable with fantastic colours, textures and types for folks to enjoy."
She also creates "Scrapyard Quilts" (costing around $4,500) with stainless-steel mesh, copper and other metals. "The strong geometrical designs of traditional textile quilts have usually interested me," explains Solar, who likes to listen to music, mostly jazz, while working. "The fundamental block patterns in the quilts by themselves are not as well interesting, nevertheless, when numerous are assembled together, subtle shifts in colour, alignment and pattern occur, and a bigger and more complex modular style emerges."
She delves everywhere for her "weird junk": junk yards, hardware shops, kitchen shops, and also the now-defunct Boeing Surplus store near Seattle. "Why I am attracted to bike cogs, washers, plumbing and industrial scraps, old keys, coins, sliced-up beer cans -- my husband gets the beer -- I really have no idea," she claims. "I don't know how you can solder or weld metal, so everything on the quilts has been stitched to stainless steel mesh squares, which I have hemmed like fabric."
Going to the River Marketplace feels like a fast stroll around the globe.
The U-shaped Town Market, central to the district, not only houses the 150-year-old farmers market on weekends but the Blue Nile Café with Ethiopian dishes, the Middle Eastern Al Habashi Mart and Carollo’s Italian Grocery and Deli.
There’s also a world of fascinating goods for the house: kitchenware from Asian markets and Index Restaurant Supply, fashionable plant containers from Dutch Flowers and international banners at All Nations Flag. You in no way know what else you might find.
“Ever heard of a infant minder?” asks Robert Eppes, owner of Silk Road Travelers, a Chinese furniture and antiques store on Delaware Street. “Not numerous people have.”
Eppes explains these small barrels were “baby sitters” within the late 1800s and early 1900s. They had been created with openings so the child could watch his mom or dad work. The floors had been slatted and covered with a blanket for warmth; sometimes they were heated with charcoal. The infant minders have been converted into tables, he says — a definite conversation piece for dinner parties.
Eppes opened the boutique with family friend Pamela Johnson at 8:08 a.m. Aug. 8, 2008, with lots of ceremony, such as dragon dancers and martial artists. They chose the River Marketplace — bounded by the bluffs about the west, the Missouri River on the north, Cherry Street on the east and Independence Avenue about the south — because of its diversity and potential for growth.
For similar reasons, Janet O’ Toole and her fiancé, Stephen Zaragoza, opened Bloom Bakery within the City Market earlier this year. They specialize in artisan bread, cakes and pastries. But the store also sells charming marketplace bags, tea towels and bamboo cutting boards, along with cake stands O’Toole made by repurposing plates and candlesticks. Baked goods are made with flour from Stafford County Flour Mills of Hudson, Kan.
“I grew up a farm girl in north-central Kansas, so I knew I’d really feel comfortable close to all the farmers within the Town Market,” O’Toole said. “I’ve met them and lots of loft owners and downtown businesspeople. What I didn’t understand is that there will be so many tourists here visiting the Steamboat Arabia and the shops.”
Numerous individuals come to the region to relax, even if it is just on a lunch break. The laid-back vibe attracted Courtnay Bradley, who recently located her modern office furniture company, Square One Interiors, on Delaware Street.
“It’s fun having residents close to right here and getting to know their families,” Bradley stated. “It’s a good mix of lofts, companies and restaurants. It is probably the most dog-friendly neighborhood.”
Even though the bulk of the companies are concentrated on Delaware Street and also the Town Market on Fifth Street, you will find artists’ studios tucked into lofts. David Polivka’s woodworking showroom and workspace are in an aged three-story Wells Fargo stagecoach creating on 3rd Street, tucked underneath the Broadway Bridge.
On the recent weekday, Polivka was busy hand-carving woodland creatures in the base of a dining room table, reminiscent of English arts and crafts style. Many of his furnishings pieces are more modern and sculptural.
When Polivka moved his studio in 1993 towards the River Market, it felt like a ghost town. Because then, residential lofts have become the craze. And now loads of mom-and-pop businesses are within the River Market. Polivka is impressed by the presence of Populous, the global architecture firm known for designing sports stadiums.
“After becoming here 17 years, a much broader appeal is present now,” Polivka stated. “You’ve got this really excellent mix of old favorites such as Planters Seed and Spice with exciting new locations opening all of the time.”
1. All Nations Flag: An independent family-run organization that makes custom flags and sells college, state and country flags. 114 W. Fifth St., 816-842-8798, www.kcflag.com
2. Auntie Em’s: Mother-daughter team Sandy and Aimee Franklin sell vintage, antiques, glassware and yes, “Wizard of Oz” stuff. 400 Grand Blvd., 816-421-1334
3. BabyCakes: Cupcakery that opened in 2006 sells and rents cake pedestals, too, and carries cupcake-themed accessories. 108 E. Missouri Ave., 816-841-1048, www.babycakeskc.com
4. Bloom Baking Organization: Bakery that opened this yr also carries handmade platters, eco-friendly market bags, tea towels and more. 15 E. Third St., 816-283-8437
5. Cara and Cabezas Contemporary: Curator Cara Megan Lewis and proprietor Paulo Cabezas show local and Central and South American pieces by contemporary artists. 218 Delaware St., Suite 208, 816-332-6239, www.caraandcabezas.com
6. Chinatown Market: Asian housewares and dishes could be discovered together with Asian groceries, 202 Grand Blvd., 816-472-6363
7. Clockwork Architecture + Style: Architectural, interior and graphic design firm creates residential and commercial spaces, 423 Delaware St., Suite 102, 816-694-0750, www.clockwork-ad.com
8. Style Eric Negrete: Interior designer Eric Negrete has produced hip residential and restaurant interiors, 258 W. Third St., third floor, 913-269-3742, www.ericnegrete.com
9. Dutch Flowers: Designer Els VanderMeij sells flowers and stylish pots. 400 Grand Blvd., 816-283-3207, www.dutchflowerskc.com
10. Eclectic Leopard: A mix of antiques, collectibles, furnishings and art. 400 Grand Blvd., 816-739-8547, www.eclecticleopard.com
11. Ella Klara: Limor Katz-Evans, a native of Israel and of mixed Moroccan and Eastern European descent, began designing fabrics for her child’s nursery and now designs clothing, aprons and canvas bags, 500 Delaware St., 913-314-6853, ellaklara.com
12. Hung Vuong Marketplace: Asian groceries and appealing Asian kitchenware. 303 Grand Blvd., 816-221-7754, hungvuongmarket.com
13. Index Restaurant Supply: Cool tools for house cooks, such as metal prep tables and oodles of utensils. Also good for bulk home entertaining gear. 521 Primary St., 816-842-9122
14. Planters Seed and Spice: Spices, teas, coffees, soup mixes, candies, nuts, dried fruits, vinegars, garden accessories and customized gift baskets in an old-fashioned general store with seed drawers. 513 Walnut St., 816-842-3651, www.plantersseed.com
15. Polivka: Because 1993, David Polivka and studio woodworkers have built cabinetry, tables, chairs, lighting and sculpture. 258 W. Third St., 816-221-2027, www.dpolivka.com
16. River Marketplace Antique Mall: Much more than 100 dealers within the four-floor, 30,000-square-foot creating, which functions eye-catching window displays and a large Lewis and Clark mural about the side. 115 W. Fifth St., 816-221-0220, www.rivermarketantiquemall.com
17. Scrape the Plate: Catering company, currently by appointment only, that provides in-home chef experiences and will deliver appetizers, desserts and much more for your house for events. The company’s herb-roasted cashews are available at stores including Dean & DeLuca. 106 E. Fifth St., 816-268-3380, www.scrapeplate.com
18. Silk Road Travelers: Friends Robert Eppes and Pamela Johnson founded this boutique in 2008 and fill it with furniture and accessories from annual trips to China. 500 Delaware St., 816-786-6565 www.silkroadtravelers.com
19. Square One Interiors: Interior designer and proprietor Courtnay Bradley sells modern office furnishings to house dwellers and company owners. 509 Delaware St., 816-886-9509, www.squareoneinteriorsllc.com
20. Urban Dwellings Design: Interior designer Jaclyn Banash sells furniture from Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams and Oly Studio, plus other fashionable add-ons. 412 Delaware St., 816-569-4313, www.urbandwellingsdesign.com
21. Wyandotte Designs: Jerry Kaufman creates custom cabinetry, furnishings and recycled toaster lamps. 201 Wyandotte St., No. 305, 816-221-0422, www.wyandottedesigns.com
INSIDER TIPS
•Farmers market: Saturdays and Sundays at the City Market, within the center of River Market at Fifth Street and Grand Boulevard. Get there early for better parking. About 14,000 people visit the River Marketplace on Saturdays. Bring bags or a wagon to cart your purchases. It is open from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. For more about the vendors, go to www.thecitymarket.org.
•Mondays: Numerous stores are closed, but numerous restaurants are open. Some stores also are closed Sundays and Tuesdays.
•Four-legged friends: Though numerous River Market residents own dogs, the four-legged friends (with the exception of guide dogs) aren’t allowed in the City Market breezeway and some stores.
•Outdoor cinema: Free movies at City Marketplace Park, Third and Primary streets. Next up is “Rocky Horror Picture Show” at 9 p.m. Aug. 27.
•Wine tastings: On the third Saturday of each month through October, the River Market has a wine-tasting event called “Wine Walk on Delaware” with different stops on the map. The next one, from 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 21, starts at the Farmhouse restaurant, 300 Delaware St. Cost is $15 per ticket.
PORTLAND — Twenty-five many years ago and in a larger plant a few miles away, Kevin and Joan Steible were two of a dozen employees who worked for Wetzler Clamp Co. They manufactured clamps used by woodworkers, woodworking schools, stair builders and other craftspeople.
By 2002, the couple were the only two left, and also the proprietor was searching to sell the enterprise. The Steibles created him an provide, which was accepted.
Trade was lucrative for a quantity of many years after the buy, but soured in 2008 when the economy plunged and home sales crashed.
"Making clamps for woodworking, we're tied directly towards the housing market," said Kevin Steible, organization president. "Last fall and this past winter had been truly difficult."
Wetzler Clamp's website and Kevin's business cards proclaim their items are made in the United States of domestic components. Castings come from a foundry in Quarryville. Rolled steel and bar stock are from American mills, and also the wooden grips are turned by a organization from Maine.
"We bring in castings and raw steel, device every thing, assemble it and turn a completed item out the door, which just happens to be clamps for woodworking and metalworking," Kevin Steible said. He was employed as a millwright and maintenance mechanic prior to joining Wetzler. The utility, simplicity and durability of the company's clamps attracted him to Wetzler, and these qualities still intrigue him.
"They do what they are supposed to do, and don't break while they are doing it," he stated. The organization was founded in 1928 in New York City by a gentleman named Max Wetzler.
Machine tools in the factory consist of units relocated to Pennsylvania when Wetzler was moved there from New York in 1984, machines the previous proprietor procured and examples Kevin and Joan purchased following 2002. All of them are old, and none are controlled by computers.
Kevin Steible considered buying advanced device resources to cut the bar stock into the screws that tighten the clamps.
"At one time I looked at various threading processes and decided to stay where we're at simply because it actually does a better job," he said.
"There are a few customers that we get from the Stroudsburg region that really arrive down and pick their clamps up, but most individuals have no idea this business is here," said Kevin Steible from the Portland factory.
Until shortly after the sale towards the Steibles, Wetzler's plant was three miles south, in Mount Bethel, before it moved to the current location in Portland. The company's post workplace box remains there, but the factory occupies leased room within a former blouse mill in the end of Hester Street, a narrow lane of old asphalt that runs off Route 611. The building is constructed of masonry blocks, and on the hot day recently the interior felt as if it were being cooled by air conditioners.
The organization makes a number of products, including cross clamps, heavy-duty bar clamps, band clamps and specialty clamps. It also produces press screws. "A lot of individuals make cider presses out of them," said Joan Steible.
Sales of quick-action clamps are the biggest seller. The clamps have two cast-iron jaws, and also the bottom jaw moves back and forth along a steel bar. The lower jaw also includes a metal screw that tightens a swivel tip into a piece of wood or other item that's held against the top jaw.
The length from the steel bar determines the size of the clamp.
Clamp costs vary depending on the girth of the tool. For any quick-action 2H clamp, which includes a 2-inch jaw, a 6-inch opening and a wooden handle, the Steibles charge $17.23 per unit. They weigh two pounds each.
The 12M clamp, which opens 60 inches and weighs 33 pounds, costs $167.40.
"We have done up to a 20-foot-long clamp," stated Kevin Steible. The customer needed the giant tool in order to finish some massive mahogany desks that were being built for the federal government.
Clamps are created to order. The Steibles have never formally divided the labor, and both can perform all of the steps within the production process. Joan Steible broaches and cuts and de-burrs, utilizing the exact same machines as her husband. In their 6,000-square-foot plant, they rarely get in every other's way.
"We know what we have to do, and we arrive in and do it," said Kevin Steible, sitting inside an workplace with two desks off the production floor. "We go to each other at lunchtime, and when we go back out there we go about our business."
The Steibles live five miles away, in Richmond, and ride to function together every morning. "Generally, our work day starts in the vehicle," said Joan.
Most of Wetzler Clamp's products are retailed directly to users. Orders are taken over the telephone or via the company web site. You will find some distributors, but they do not stock the clamps created in Portland. They phone when a customer requirements one.
A purchasing agent for Home Depot as soon as approached the Steibles and asked if they would be interested in supplying the chain with clamps.
Kevin Steible looked in the contract, studied the figures and became concerned by the quantities of clamps the spouses will be needed to manufacture and hold as stock. There was no guarantee the big-box retailer would ever purchase them.
"The profit margin was so minimal," he stated, "compared to the investment needed to carry the inventory for what they needed. It was considerable. It was millions."
Wetzler has competitors — Bessey Products and also the Adjustable Clamp Co. — each with more than two individuals on their payrolls.
"We're most likely one from the last small companies left," said Kevin Steible. "Our typical product sales represents about one-tenth of 1 percent of the market." He estimated the domestic marketplace for clamps and clamping items is about $100 million a year.
Wetzler Clamps have appeared on television throughout unusual circumstances. About 10 years ago, before they purchased the firm, Kevin and Joan had been watching TV when a group of NASA engineers in Houston were discussing a fix they would attempt on a piece of room hardware.
"They came out and they used our clamps in the demonstration," Kevin Steible recalled. "I'm not sure if they utilized them in room."
Patrons and visitors will have the chance to learn about the woodcarving artistry of intarsia at a plan to become held at the Jackson County Public Library. Lebern Dills, an experienced intarsia artist and resident of Cullowhee, will show some of his work and share his methods at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17.
Dills uses patterns to carve and all of his pieces are hand-finished without utilizing power tools.
Intarsia is a woodworking technique that uses varied shapes, sizes and species of wood that are fitted with each other to produce a 3-dimensional, mosaic-like picture.
Intarsia is created through the selection of various kinds of wood, using their natural grain pattern and color to produce variations in the pattern. After choosing the particular woods to be utilized within the pattern, each piece of wood is then individually cut, shaped, and sanded. As soon as the individual pieces are completed, they are fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and glued to a piece of wood backing.
Intarsia dates back towards the 17th century and has its European origins in crafted rocks and stones.
Visitors to the recent Birds, Bees and Butterflies event presented by the Milton Garden Club in early June were the recipients of some very special handiwork. Not only did the children in attendance understand about nature in a fun-filled way, they each got to take home a free birdhouse custom made by wooden artist Nathaniel "Nate" Glover, 71, also known as Mr. Woodart. "As a member from the Milton Garden Club, this was my second year to be involved with Birds, Bees and Butterflies," Glover mentioned. "It was my first yr to make and give out the birdhouses. The concept was to teach the kids what birds live in so they could be a part of watching them in their own back yards."
The creation from the more than 200 birdhouses was truly a labor of love for Glover who spent three weeks on the task. Seeing the young site visitors express their pleasure at receiving the souvenir made the effort worthwhile, he said.
"They were asking all kinds of questions," Glover mentioned. "You should have seen their smiling faces. We talked about what they could do with them, how you can paint them, and much more."
Milton Garden Club president Sandra Sherman is delighted to possess Glover like a multi-talented member of the group.
"Nate does a lot of things for us," she said. "Not only does he build the birdhouses, he builds lots of things. He and his wife, Roberta, are really giving individuals. And, the children completely loved the birdhouses! We are proud to possess him as a member of our group. He is one of three men who are members." Glover has been woodworking for most of his life. A love for making points is what got him began as early as grade school
"I have made cedar chests, furniture and all kinds of children's furniture this kind of as stoves refrigerators, kitchen cupboards, tables and chairs," he mentioned. "I've also made doll furniture of all types, Christmas items, home décor and other people too many to mention. I have enjoyed attending craft shows and selling my products for the past 20 many years."
Glover mentioned that to do woodworking you should have the desire to work with wooden and also the basic tools this kind of like a hammer and saw. He is saddened that woodworking is a fading art — one that he would strongly encourage young individuals to learn as it involves working with your hands as well as your mind.
"Creating a piece of wood art provides me excellent satisfaction especially whenever you see the expression on a child's face," Glover said. "It is priceless to know that some items are heirlooms and will reside on for years. Parents appreciate purchasing some thing that will last. They come back every year to our craft shows to purchase something else or just to see what else we have that is new to provide. How wonderful is that?"
Not just is Mr. Woodart a seasoned wood craftsman, he also has a green thumb.
"I love gardening," Glover mentioned. "We moved to Milton five many years ago following a 22 year tour with the Army. I joined the Milton Garden Club to share and learn new gardening ideas. My wife also enjoys functioning with home plants."
What began like a woodworking hobby has grown in to some full-time work for Christopher Wiener. Now his function is going to be within the spotlight on an episode of 'Bath Crashers' on the DIY Network.
Wiener first got involved in wood crafting at his grandfather’s saw mill. He kept up with it like a pastime and turned it into a part-time job 14 years ago.
That part-time work turned in to some full-time profession three years ago. Wiener and his staff of eight have been busy ever because.
Back again in June, he received a call from producers from the DIY Network’s 'Bath Crashers' show who were looking for some custom-built wood furnishings. Most of Wiener’s customers are individuals looking for custom furnishings, but he also has done work for businesses, for example resorts, that are looking for some rustic looking furnishings.
“We have items in all 50 states and Canada,” he said, but this was the first time they have actually done something for television.
Usually when a client calls in an order, they can anticipate the completed product to be shipped six to eight weeks later. But in this case, Wiener got the call from the show’s producer on a Thursday and they needed to have the completed item in Chanhassen, Minn., by the end from the following week.
“Usually, I take a little time off on the weekends,” he chuckled. “But not that weekend.”
Following putting in some lengthy hours, the vanity, linen closet and two medicine cabinets were prepared to be delivered.
It was a distinctive experience both during the creation phase and during the delivery.
Normally, a customer has an exact idea of what they want, but the 'Bath Crashers' crew left a lot of details up to Wiener. That meant there had been a lot of calls back and forth so he could get an idea for the design from the furnishings.
Wiener said the show’s producers didn’t have any specific kind of wood in mind at initial, but once he told them about the reclaimed wood furnishings they make, the producers liked that above all else.
The reclaimed wooden is from old barns that have been torn down. The wood has the two a distinctive appear and is very strong.
The day from the delivery was also a bit strange for Wiener and his staff.
There wasn’t a time specified for the delivery so when Wiener showed up at the house, he was told to go back to the end of the driveway so the crew could set up the cameras and film the delivery.
When Wiener showed off the finished item, the crew was impressed. In fact, they've asked him to make some much more furniture for an episode that will be filmed in September.
“It was an excellent experience,” he stated. “I loved it.”
The episode of 'Bath Crashers' which will feature Vienna Woodworks’ creations will initial air at 8 p.m. central time on August 23 about the DIY Network.
On Thursday, July 29th, Aster Hall is pleased to present woodwork by Charlie Moore and Raven Toney, featuring photography by Diana Lauderdale of FactoryCactus.
Drivers in no way know what to expect once they pass Virgil Theiss’ home on Spring Stuebner Road.
Going to the River Marketplace feels like a fast stroll around the globe.
Visitors to the recent Birds, Bees and Butterflies event presented by the Milton Garden Club in early June were the recipients of some very special handiwork. Not only did the children in attendance understand about nature in a fun-filled way, they each got to take home a free birdhouse custom made by wooden artist Nathaniel "Nate" Glover, 71, also known as Mr. Woodart. "As a member from the Milton Garden Club, this was my second year to be involved with Birds, Bees and Butterflies," Glover mentioned. "It was my first yr to make and give out the birdhouses. The concept was to teach the kids what birds live in so they could be a part of watching them in their own back yards."
What began like a woodworking hobby has grown in to some full-time work for Christopher Wiener. Now his function is going to be within the spotlight on an episode of 'Bath Crashers' on the DIY Network.