Tony Frentrop | carpenter | artist
I created this entertainment stand to hold our living room electronics, DVDs, and PlayStation games. I’d previously made a bookshelf (I’ll have to add a picture soon) and my wife wanted it to coordinate.
Since the doors needed to slide past each other I created the hardware using skateboard wheel bearings and a narrow track. And to brace the bottom of the doors and keep things sliding evenly I added bearings from a router bit to hold the doors plumb.
My new toolbox I made over the last few months.
I was inspired to make this toolbox/ briefcase type thing after viewing Henry O. Studley‘s 1900’s tool box. I fell in love with it and wanted to make my own interpretation of his classic.
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Made of all solid hardwood construction with hand cut/ chiseled dove tailed joinery. Materials used include maple, sycamore, walnut, sheet copper – thicker gauged.
When starting this project I believed the case and drawers would have been the lion’s share of the build.
I was wrong.
After constructing the case and drawers I found myself at a loss with what to do with the 2 large open areas and how to fill every single square inch of all the dead space. Sounds simple, keep in mind I wanted a look and a flow to how everything would be housed in the cabinet. All the while when fully closed and latched I wanted to be able to roll this thing down the stairs and nothing would move out of place.The trickiest parts of the projects are often unseen before you start.
I’m glad I started.
Enjoy!
Individual photos:
This is the second mink skull mini compression chamber. Going for more of an “electricity” feel on this one; not so much “steam”.
Check out the first one here on day 9
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This is a bronze head I made when I was 19 working at a bronze foundry. It was pretty cool job.
…with perks. As in I met some really cool people and still have a handful of some pieces I made while working there.
I made the pieces here by first making a wax mold – not your typical candle wax. Then it goes through a slurry build up dressed with a liquid eggshell substance in which you roll it in different sand to build up the casting shell. Its starts about the graininess as sugar and ends with gravel. Its about 10 different steps.
Then the hot liquid bronze is poured, then the breakaway, followed by sandblasting. Then done.
The head was designed to look like its emerging from a table or something. It now resides on our fireplace.
going to pieces 