A New Category: Music Videos

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:28:54 GMT

Tom Fidgen Working Wood, Chapter One
Time: 00:52
Submitted by: Tom Fidgen, www.WorkingWood.ca
Belle Cote, Nova Scotia

We're launching a new category today on GlueTube: Music Videos. Thanks to this contribution from Tom Fidgen, a furnituremaker and boatbuilder in Nova Scotia, we're officially featuring our first-ever dovetail tutorial set to an original music soundtrack. Fidgen is a guitarist and woodworker and performs both in his series of clips hosted on YouTube and available on his blog.

P.S. Click on the category link below for more woodworking-themed music videos, including our all-time favorite -- the Palo Alto.

Short Film, Elegant Chair

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:52:11 GMT

The Palo Alto
Time: 9:37 (video starts at the 10 sec. mark)
Submitted by: Jared Rusten
Brooklyn, New York

Filmmaker David C. Thompson directed this dreamy and atmospheric short film of California furniture maker Jared Rusten building his trademark Palo Alto chair (photo right), which is named for the Silicon Valley locale and looks equally as hip.

Set to music by Vetiver (with permission) and shot with an 8mm movie camera, the film glides through the process of cutting and assembling this unique chair -- although sometimes out of sequence -- including preparing thick planks for the seat and back and assembling the gravity-defying parts.

Rusten, who is currently living in Brooklyn and working on a commission to make the woodwork and furniture for an architect-designed bar, recently migrated east from California. "I plan to be around for a few years, but I'm anxious to get back to my hometown and the 1,000 board feet of walnut slabs I had to leave there," Rusten said in an email.

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