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Milton Eidahl’s Marvelous Toy Ferris Wheel

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, For Makers, Our Favorite Custom Finds on May 31, 2011

Every Saturday morning, without fail, Milton Eidahl and his wife can be found at the Moses Lake Farmers Market with their custom wooden toys, and every Saturday, without fail, people stop and pause when they see Milton’s Ferris Wheel. The legendary 17th century writer Gustave Flaubert used to say “Le bon Dieu est dans le detail” – [...]

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Adding Reclaimed Materials to Your Custom Made Jewelry Projects

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 31, 2011

Custom projects made with reclaimed resources not only will be environmentally friendly but also can benefit from the rich backstories and unique visual characteristics of repurposed materials.  If you’re considering investing in custom made jewelry, here are four approaches to integrating recycled materials into your design.  Keep these “Four Rs” in mind when you review [...]

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What is Millwork?

Posted by Pedro in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers on May 27, 2011

What is custom made millwork?  Woodworker Gene Lyman’s description of a key arched pediment entryway reproduction created by Gene Lyman – Cabinetmaker – Country Cupboards is a good place to start looking for an answer: “This is an exact reproduction of a high style 18th century entryway. The classic tapered ogee key at the top [...]

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Peter Turner Makes Custom Blanket Chests and Publishes a Book!

Posted by CustomMade in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on May 27, 2011

Our guest contributor is CustomMade artisan and author Peter Turner of Peter S. Turner Furnituremaker.

Blanket Chests, the book that Scott Gibson and I wrote for The Taunton Press, has been out now for a couple months. The initial chapter lays out a variety of techniques that one might use in building a chest. The [...]

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A Matter of Perspective: Cities and Neighborhoods in Custom Artwork

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 26, 2011

In a manner of speaking, a skyline is the face of a city, and commissioned sculptures and paintings of cityscapes as familiar silhouettes of buildings and landmarks are like formal portraits.  Faces reveal a great deal, but cities, like people, have features and qualities that might escape the perspective of a formal portrait, characteristics that [...]

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Custom pool table job is a hole in one

Posted by CustomMade in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on May 25, 2011

Howard Hatch’s CustomMade Success: $25,000 pool table and furniture set

“Thank you CustomMade.com. I recently got a commission to make a custom pool table and 2 cocktail tables through the Custommade.com connection. This project totals more than $25,000 in work for me. A major project in these tough times. I especially like the fact that [...]

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Outside the Box: Custom Boxes That Find New Uses for Traditional Designs

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 25, 2011

Can you recall the last time you saw a typographer’s tray?

As technology advances, the forms of many everyday objects are transformed radically.  Those objects that cannot change quietly disappear.  Some may reappear in museum collections, while many will be consigned to the antique stores of history.  However, before a thing becomes a relic or [...]

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Bring New Life to Reclaimed Wood with Custom Frames

Posted by Pedro in Custom Inspiration, For Customers on May 24, 2011

The works of art and personal photographs you’ve decided to protect and display prominently in your home must have some special significance for you.  Why not house your prized items in custom frames made from materials with special significance as well? Reclaimed wood is a widely available and environmentally friendly resource that also possesses unique [...]

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Mike Salguero on BostInnovation: CustomMade and the Custom E-Commerce Movement

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on May 23, 2011

It’s only Monday, but it’s already been a great week for spreading the CustomMade word.  Hot on the heels of Sunday’s NorthJersey.com feature on CustomMade, CEO and co-founder Mike Salguero has written the first article in BostInnovation’s featured series for the week on the Boston area’s flourishing custom e-commerce industry.  Mike looks back at the [...]

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Ask an expert – wood products and tips – Part II

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on May 23, 2011

“I actually think that our greatest challenge is the rising cost of doing business, in the form of regulation, taxes, and illogical market subsidies for competing products. Unfortunately, turning this around requires the wood industry professional to get involved in local, state, and perhaps even federal politics and most of us are in the wood business because we hate that stuff.”

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