It's been a while...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009





I have finally gotten into the metal shop and made some architectural and furniture pieces. The first one I made was a tall-slim coffee table / Bench for a brooklyn appartment's balcony. The top is a thick slab of 3' by 10" marble framed by angle iron and held by square legs. The next metal object is an exterior air conditioner mount. The materials for both pieces were all salvaged (the angle iron with holes for the A/C mount was from my childhood loft). I hope to get photos up soon of both pieces in their intended envirvonments, not the hallway to my studio...


So what was the hold up? Music, I've been playing a lot of music. I now play bass for two bands, The Dakota and Iyadede. The only live shows The Dakota have played have been in various NYC parks, but we are gearing up for our first live show in a proper venue. In the photo we are playing in McCarren Park in Williamsburg, BK. Iyadede has played a bunch and we're playing Santo's Party House on 9/2 and MTV Studios on 9/11. In the photo we are playing at Brooklyn Museum, opening for Baja + The Dry Eye Crew at the Rembering Future Africa event.

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New York to San Francisco.... and back
Tuesday, March 10, 2009


I just recently returned from San Francisco.  I stayed for 3 weeks and was the assistant to Patrick Dougherty on his sculpture The Upper Crust.  He was hired by the San Francisco Art Commission to build a sculpture outside of City Hall.  This is my third time working with Patrick, and each time has been more exciting than the last.  These sculptures are amazingly rewarding to work on, you are in constant contact with nature in its rawest state.  The sculpture was build using willow woven into the tops of pollarded sycamore trees.  When the Sycamores bloom they will shoot through the scupture.  San Francisco Mike does an amazing service for the city with his sfciviccenter blogspot.  Check out his last entry of the sculpture at http://sfciviccenter.blogspot.com/2009/02/patrick-dougherty-and-upper-crust.html.  San Francisco Mike took the photo I used in this blog entry.

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Glassed from the Past
Monday, March 9, 2009

A photo of the finished product.  In other news... the ArtWelderAndy.com studio is moving to Greenpoint, Brooklyn.  See you at the local flea market!  I'm going to cater my work for the NYC area.  We're talking furniture, lighting, and small apartment sized art.  I hope to add more and more found objects into my work.  Think post-apocalyptic mad max with a sleek refined artistic sensitivity.


Also, I started playing bass for the amazing singer/songwriter Iyadede, check out this video from our first show ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMQY-NwXZhY&feature=channel

My new studio is large enough to accomodate a private music rehearsal space complete with gear.  If you don't play terrible music come rent it by the hour!

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Minus the Glass
Monday, December 15, 2008


I haven't heard back from anyone about a glass quote... so this is as far as I can get for now. Laying the glass on the top is a no brainer and the sliding doors come ready to screw into place.

The wood is pine and has been stained, waxed, hammered into place, and then tacked tight with wire nails. The G.H. (inappropriate) is for the audio/visual wires from the stereo to the tv, speakers, et al.

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One Patina, Two Patina, Three Patina, Four...
Saturday, December 13, 2008



I sanded and brushed the blue/black steel to a shiny surface and then treated the surface to a home brew patina. As I staggered through the A&P, eyes glazed over from welding, loading up on all their acidic substances I was sure they thought I was either making a bomb or meth. To the patriot act gov't nerd out there who's computer just flagged this post... I don't know how to make either, and the patina was luck. In other news, all the metal work is done. Now for the wood and glass...

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Metal Cut & Welded in Place
Friday, December 12, 2008





Enough people asked me if I drew the SketchUp guy to look like me so here I am playing the role. To answer the question, "no," the program loads with its own dimwit standing there.

I picked up some really handy corner vises at Harbor Freight. That place is hit or miss, always cheap, sometimes too cheap, these however work great. I used the standard magnetic corners for some of the other joints.

I used the Dry Cut-Off for the angle cuts and the Abrasive Cut-Off for the straight cuts. The Dry Cut-Off makes outstandingly precise cuts with no burr.

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TV Stand Design Process
Tuesday, December 9, 2008













I've been living in NYC, away from my CT studio, and have taken advantage of Google's SketchUp to help flush out the design for a TV Stand commission before actually starting the work. It's a great program and really helped with the communication process getting the design to be exactly what is wanted. The images start at the bottom and go up as the design was edited.

The bottom SketchUp drawing was the starting point. It's my own very industrial aesthetic and served as a bare bones base to add ideas to.

I was asked to make the Stereo area be enclosed to protect the equipment from dust and was sent the next image from the Design Within Reach website. The image above the DWR is how I adapted my table to work with the new specs.

The next image up is from the Anthropologie website and was sent to me as an example of the desired color and openness. The image on top was the final and accepted design. I'm now in CT gathering the materials and getting ready to start.

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