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Leaf-pattern light fixture lit up, professional photo
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Metalworking

Welding, fabrication, and metal shop projects — from furniture to small sculptural pieces.

A collection of metal shop work, ranging from furniture builds to smaller sculptural pieces, each shown here, some from first sketch through finished piece.

Projects

Steel-Frame Desk

A TIG welded steel base with a walnut top, finished in matte black.

Welded steel frame corner joints, in progress
SolidWorks CAD model of the desk assembly
The desk modeled in SolidWorks before fabrication.
Welded steel-frame desk with live-edge walnut top, raw steel
Finished desk with black-painted steel frame

Wall Planter

A hand-fabricated, TIG fused geometric planter. Water tight and wall-mounted, holding a spider plant.

Wall-mounted geometric metal planter with plant
Wall planter, wider context shot near a window

Cantilever Shelf

A three-tier shelf built from scrap yard box tube. Bent using a hydraulic draw bender and finished in matte black with quarter sawn oak shelves made to fit. Shown from initial concept sketch to finished unit incorporating large format all-thread and nuts as a supporting center pillar.

Pencil concept sketch for the bent-tube shelf unit
Raw welded steel tube shelf frame with wood shelves, unfinished
Finished black-painted shelf unit leaning against a concrete wall
Finished shelf unit, alternate angle showing threaded-rod feet

Leaf-Pattern Light Fixture

From sketch, to illustrator, to waterjet, this piece was inspired by leaves overlapping in a tree canopy with light filtering through.

Pencil concept sketches of leaf patterns for the light fixture
Laser-cut leaf-pattern metal light fixture, phone photo
Leaf-pattern light fixture lit up, professional photo
Macro detail of the backlit leaf-pattern fixture

Daffodil Sculpture

A geometric take on a daffodil made from scrap steel.

Welded metal flower sculpture mounted on a live-edge wood base
Macro detail of the welded flower petals

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