Tag: Ron Bauer
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Stump-to-Table: Ron’s Bistro Table
At long last — albeit ten months to the day after it was completed and delivered — I share with you the looong promised “concept-through-construction of a mixed species (ash and elm) ‘bistro table’ built by Ron Bauer…” mentioned in “Tung Oiling Ash & Elm Table” and elsewhere. I started to compose this reflection on…
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Tung Oiling Ash & Elm Table
I’ve been keeping a little secret. And I’m not quite ready to spill the beans, not 100% at least. That will happen soon enough in a post chronicling the concept-through-construction of a mixed species (ash and elm) “bistro table” built by Ron Bauer this spring. Anticipation is half the pleasure! Until then, today’s post is…
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Broken & Unbroken
I’ve been reflecting a lot on vessels. Crockery, boats, homes, books, relationships, memories. And conditions. Conditions of vessels, the contents they’re asked to contain, and those of us who rely upon them, who contemplate them. The vessel above, a burly bowl, reminds me of another, gifted to us by Pam, crafted from a burl collected…
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Bowtie & Broken Memento
Bowtie & Broken Memento: Poem Amidst broken memento and fragmented hope, fractured sculpture and ruptured carpentry, a bowtie binds bitter ends. A patchwork harvest of homegrown cherry, felled and milled, cured and crafted, offcuts conjoined, scrappy remnants sewn in singalong, cradling conversation, cutlery, crockery, and nourishment. Sun soaked, finger tipped tenderly, inadvertently in thought, in…