thank you squarespace for sponsoring this video this is one of the more meaningful projects i'll
probably ever build so pay close attention to see how cars movement dogs shadows and music all
have to do with one another and how they relate to what this is about to become typically you see
me build furniture it's functional it might be functional art but this week i am building
a sculpture and it is definitely art i think all right let me set this up real quick
so you kind of know what's going on we've got just a little bit of prep
before we can get into the woodworking two teardrop shapes that will nest together
and these are just printed straight off a cad as a reference so i get really
consistent forms made let's do it i saved you a lot of bore
of watching me make forms but here you go hinges and this is
where the laminations are going to go so let's get those cut up and you can
see how these forms work cool let's do it so so uh if you haven't noticed a lot of my commentary
is just me thinking out loud and brainstorming seems to be working i was going to show you
kind of a glimpse at where we're headed so here's what i'm doing this is the heart of the
piece and it's going to be stacked in tiered rings with a hollow inside tricky
tricky you know me i like a challenge so yeah i don't have a lathe let's figure that out that was the most stressful little bentlam glue-up
i think i've ever done um okay so i'm gonna go ahead and let all of this cook overnight and we'll
pull these out of forms get them cleaned up uh get the back panel together and start working on
the rest of it so yeah we'll see you in the morning uh yeah let's get some forms pulled can you hear that oops i accidentally put
a hole in my bag see if we get the whoosh are you ready wait for it wait for it damn hole oopsies so so okay so that looks pretty cool they're all nested
that's a little honeycomb inside it's a little bit flat right the movement the motion the feeling i
want to get across is rotation everything in life operates on rotation seasons life is rotations
around the sun the earth rotates the sun rotates the galaxy the universe all rotate what i'm going
to do is have it in a frozen state of rotation obviously my bandsaw is not big enough i have
to come up with some way to do that let's do it all right people usually uh
yell at me for this one as well so i want you to take a deep breath and say
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squarespace and let's get back to the build well [ __ ] that won't fit through the bandsaw what's
funny is i literally this morning was at an estate sale and there was an 18 inch band saw could
be a sign but that doesn't help me right now so hmm i got an idea so i left a couple of things uh in the design kind
of in the air i wasn't 100 sure i was gonna do it the thing i'm trying to get across is
sort of protecting this center portion totally made both of those um okay so that's
spanish for cheese i dig it now they challenge is finding that plane at which they intersect is a
little bit tricky yeah okay that's all let's do it my oh damn first try that's pretty tidy fit how do you describe a person's life in wood i started this video with a pretty bold statement one of the most meaningful projects i'll ever
make so let me defend that position with a story how do you describe a person's life in wood this is the question i asked myself
when axelrystwig's father asked me to design their son's memorial my answer came
from the story he told about his son's passions and creative gifts their desire
for a design that celebrated their best memories and love of axel as you might
guess this was a bittersweet challenge since the sawdust of my own son's memorial saber earlier
this year still has yet to settle in the shop so let's finish up these last
couple steps and i can explain more all right this has been really good
practice for me i keep trying to over complicate this back panel i designed it simply
the process of it is not exciting me but i think the finished result will pay off in
really featuring the main part of it i understood better than most the importance
of a design that incorporated the beauty of a child's life in the tragedy of his loss the
question i get most often is about design so now that we're getting a glimpse of the
final form i'd like to give some more insight on this design to begin the airfoil or teardrop
shape serves several meanings the aerodynamic form represents axel's love of cars and time
spent working on them bonding with his dad the gentle curves are a nod to those used in
lutherie the craft of making stringed instruments this gives permanence to axel's
love of music and playing his guitar something he was seldom seen without one person set the form as a whole reminded
them of a meteor entering the atmosphere i really like that we're all just made a stardust
i also wanted to convey motion as in living and breathing and moving forward in life both
in axel's life and his families moving on through grief to a place where they can celebrate
his life and their own together the two teardrops are meant to be a snapshot of life caught in
stasis around the core in the moment that forever exists in a parent's life when they lose a child
i wanted that aspect to elicit the feeling that it might be interactive that one might reach out
and spin those tears the jagged edges of the core are the heart of the piece whatever a viewer might
expect to be round is not and never can be again like a truly broken but beautiful heart the
amniotic space around the core and the laminations is the void left inside axel's family i remember
that cavernous void a feeling as physical as it was emotional i still wonder where that part of me
is gone was it a piece of my soul going with him now axel had a loyal dog shadow who inexplicably
passed shortly after his boy the outer teardrop loop is shadow his protector-in-chief an eternal
pal his propensity for disappearing into shadows is how he earned his name and can be seen in the
rotating airfoil that seems to disintegrate into the dark medium behind and i hope we can all take
a moment to celebrate the life of axel and his best buddy shadow that's all for me i i really do
hope you enjoy the process uh if you didn't please just keep that [ __ ] to yourself i don't want any
negativity in the comments for this family to read normally i wouldn't think it necessary
to say that but this is youtube after all that's all from me for this week i hope
you all have a beautiful holiday season and let's all send some love
out to axel and his family and as always i really appreciate you taking
the time to watch this we'll catch you all on the next build oh get liked
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