Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!
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ZeeBee Leather HQ got a much needed update this week. It's much easier to work through a long list of orders when tools are organized, and all within arm's reach.
I built this all myself with a drill and a handsaw (because that's all I have, and I'm crazy). The drill REALLY got a workout when I made the pegboard!
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Thanks as always @seawolf!! But you are blazing the trail as far as I'm concerned. Your studio is so inspirational!! It's just so well thought out and efficient, and in San Diego!!
Yea, I'm the only one essentially manually etching super heavy watercolor paper by hand with only drawn lines and my own handwriting. But, there is a level of pain and suffering associated with it, so I will probably remain the only one unless somebody comes up with the process on their own and is inspired to evolve it. It's like rock climbing in a way, and I see their rating system as relevant to my work, in terms of rating the difficulty associated with a particular route up the rock, or in this case the difficulty required to execute the process on paper. For instance the hardest rock climbing routes are rated 5.15. I don't think another person would be willing to do what I'm doing, both because of the physical toll and the time it takes. The lines you see are not just simply drawn with one pass of a pencil, like you would when drawing or drafting. Instead, I'm using a massive amount of force pushing down with the colored pencil on the paper and making 10-20 passes at high speed for each line to essentially "tattoo" the paper with the color. That's how I can shred 400lb. Arches watercolor paper that has been thoroughly sized with gelatin. It hurts after a while. I've developed significant calluses to protect my hands, but it takes a toll. I feel compelled to continue with this process, because I made it up way back in 2005 when I wanted to stop wasting so much notebook paper and started writing everything on the same sheet. It has evolved in an incredible way since then, but that's how it started. I could've gone many other routes in art, porcelain, graphic design, wood work, etc., but just like rock climbing, this process was the most challenging and spiritually rewarding, so here I am eleven years later still doing it even though it hurts.
I put down a few more layers. The texture is becoming pretty nice
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I'm super grateful for the appreciation. Thank you!
It would be an honor to barter! This will definitely happen, but I need some more time to finish some more things
The irony about the stuff I make is that each peace of paper is potentially in a perpetual state of construction! I can always add more layers again and again and change the design over and over until it starts falling apart, so saying a peace is finished is pretty arbitrary. Just like with faded jeans, if they aren't falling apart, you can always wear them one more day! That's the downside to evolving or "weathering" paper, it takes so much time. As Giles says, IWHWIH 
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Awesome work, Adam.
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Finished my desk.
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I didn't do the dying, but it was all my idea.
I washed my 666PQ, and the leather patch stained the fabric, so I thought an indigo bath from "Pigeon Tree Crafting" would be epic! So, I sent some more items too, including an IHSH-58, and a surprise non-IH item that will be revealed later.
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well… i think they turned out great!
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Agreed. Well played sir
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Both look great old chap!
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I don't know if this is a bad idea or worse, but I've finally decided to put some pics up publicly on instagram :o. I'm a total recluse, so this is not normal for me, maybe I need a beer! It is not as informative or interesting as the stuff on here, but it is a start (I like this place so much better). Have a look if you like, it's obviously only the work I can snap with my iphone, so that eliminates most of my stuff, but hopefully I'm not the worst artist on the site
Picking a name that isn't already taken is apparently pretty difficult
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Found this while digging through old photos
And had fun with the Instagram layout tool to get this
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Started a new peace. Got a long way to go.
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I like where this one's going:
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Speaker stands. Part 1. POC
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Progress. Well over 1000 lines here, and each "line" is created with 20-30 passes of the pencil at high speed under massive pressure…..so lots of feckin lines
and lots of feckin paper pulp!
