Journal

What the studio is looking at, cutting, and getting wrong. Written when there is something to say.

Cut leather blanks on the bench
Workshop — March

On cutting a hide only once

A hide has one best answer and several convincing wrong ones. Where the fibre is tight, where it stretches, and why the first cut decides the last.

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Patina study — two wallets, worn and unworn
Materials — February

Two years of patina, side by side

The same wallet, one carried daily and one kept in a drawer. What sun, water, and the oil of a hand actually do to vegetable-tanned leather.

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The brass cap of The Mill, struck with a P
Studio — January

Notes toward a pepper mill

Study No. 02 begins with grinding, not grain. Early drawings, a turned prototype, and the weight a hand expects from a thing it uses every night.

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More entries as they are written.