Mirror Point Cottage

Mirror Point Cottage, Nova Scotia

Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

www.mlsarchitects.ca

Contractor: Scott Shearer
Cabinetry: MRB Contracting

Photography: James Brittain

I was lucky enough to get to work for one of Canada's top architects in a remote location, three hours from Halifax.  

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Clifton Street, Halifax NS

The last project I worked on in Halifax 

with MRB Contracting

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Furniture I Have Designed & Crafted 2

Here are some Tom Premier originals.

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A pair of matching Loft Beds.

An industrial (Hobart) mixer stand of Hickory & Spruce.

 

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Stool Sample 001 or SS1 as its become known as. Shown here in Spruce.

 

 

Shown here in use.

 

 

A close up of the foot detail.

 

 

This is Stool Sample 002, or SS2 in highly figured Maple.

 

 

 

A close up of the seat and the beautiful character of the Maple.  I pulled these boards out of some old flooring.

 

 

 

 

Height Adjustable Free-Standing Desk

 

 A friend asked me to help him build Scott Rumschlag's DIY Motor-Free Height-Adjustable Standing Desk, after purchasing his plans online.

 

 

The picture below shows the desk in standing position, prior to sanding and finishing.

 

It is a desk that you can adjust the height of to either sit at or stand at.  The plans were good, but we ran into some issues with some of the dimensions.

 

 

 The above and below pictures show the legs, supports and cross-bracing all made of Hickory.  

 

It also shows the wheels and roller details where the top support rides the leg.

 

 

 This picture illustrates a problem we ran into. I intend no offense to Scott Rumschlag or his ingenious desk design here, and am just pointing out a simple error in the plans.  The dimension from bottom of leg to bottom of mortise for horizontal cross member, is actually to the top of the mortise for the horizontal cross member.  That is why our counter weights are roughly the same thickness of our horizontal cross member off the floor in these pictures.

 

 Here is a link to Scott's website:

http://www.core77.com/posts/41625/Scott-Rumschlags-DIY-Motor-Free-Height-Adjustable-Standing-Desk

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Custom Door

Here's a unique custom screen door I made.

 

 

It is made from 4/4 Poplar and painted white.  It has a removable window as to provide an insulation value in the winter and insect free airflow in the summer.

 

 

The arch was a challenge because it wasn't a true radius.

A look at the mortise and tenon joints prior to glue up.

A look at one of the solid Poplar panels.

Glued up and clamped nice and straight.

 

 

After cutting the arch on the door, I made the window to fit.  It is also mortise and tenoned together, except the arch, which is biscuited.

 

 

 

 

A look at the widow finished with glass and stops, painted to match.

 

 

The door after painting and installation of the screen. 

 

 

 

The leftovers.

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Blumotion With Servo Drive

In January of 2016 I started working at Gipman Millwork and Design (www.gipmanmillwork.com) in Cranbrook BC. 

It had been several years since I had worked in a large production shop, and I wanted to gain some experience working with CNC machines and also the computer side of the trade.

GMD was a great place to learn.  They have a state of the art shop which includes a 5 axis Morbidelli CNC machine.  This is used predominantly for cutting cabinet parts, and can do an entire kitchen in a matter of hours.  

When I left GMD, I was predominantly engineering.  This meant that once a kitchen had been designed, I would plan how to build it and make sure that everything 'worked'.  This entails programming the CNC, making a file for the CNC operator to run, creating the cutlists and drafting drawings for the shop to follow.  Also ensuring materials were on hand, and corresponding hardware.

One of my first solo projects at GMD was to build a kitchen (above) using Blumotion with Servo-Drive.  This system requires an abundance of parts, and is electronically operated.  When you push gently against a drawer or door, it opens.  Push a button, and it closes.  Very trick.  Check the video below.

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A Walnut butcher block top, made easily at the high tech shop of GMD.

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Burl Head Carving

Here is a head carving I made from a burl I found on a beach in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

The legs are old coat hooks from an old Halifax basement.

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