New Bench design for NMIT

Just completed this prototype for some benches I'll be making for the new NMIT(Nelson Marlborough institute of technology) Visual arts and media building.

 Constructed from the LVL (laminated veneer lumber) locally produced for this groundbreaking building design. They wanted some benches and coffee tables for the communal spaces in the building. Nice to reconnect with NMIT as it was where I trained in design under John Shaw. He's now running his own fine woodworking school here in Nelson http://www.centre-for-fine-woodworking.co.nz/

Short Circuit lounge table

Here's a table design i made for home last year. Constructed in laminated plywood and toughened glass.

New shots.

Here's some new shots a friend, Jeanie Robertson took of my flat-pack Table and stool designs.

David Haig: Bending Timber - videos - Fine Woodworking

Check out this link from my fine friend and mentor.


David Haig: Bending Timber - videos - Fine Woodworking

Mike's at the Nelson Market.

Hey Y'all,
I'm gonna be down at the Nelson market tomorrow from 8 selling some of my new slot together designs. Just outside the market side of the BNZ. Come and say hi. Cheers Mike

Some earlier pieces

Here is a few shots of two pieces that a made a while back. I employed the glass casting skills of friend Jim Mackay to make up the blue shelves and centre piece. The timber is locally grown Rata, which is extremly dense and able to be sanded and polished up to a nice satin sheen. The cabinet is polished stainless steel and the three materials combined to be a nice mix.

The Cabinet was made for a Nelson furniture collective show and was purchased by a friend, which is always nice! The 'Ebb section' sculpture below was made for an exhibition in Nelson. It hung around for a while in our gallery, but was subsequently bought by a dealer in Hong Kong.

 They sent me the photo below of how they displayed it in their gallery, on a lightbox, which i thought looked really cool. wish i'd thought of that... They sold it a little while later to the Korean wood museum. interesting trip on the whole.

Work for the Suter art gallery

Hi All,

Here's a couple of job's recently completed for Nelson's public art gallery-The Suter - Te Aratoi O Whakatu. Straight joinery jobs but satisfying to work on nonetheless. There was a bit of mathematics involved in the making the card racks accomodate all the different sized cards. i'm not ashamed to admit that a calculator was employed. The card racks fold together and lock to deter possible light fingeredness by theatre goers at night....

The Light cabinet is situated at the back of the gallery in a hallway and is being used to exhibit their ceramic and small sculpture collection.