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Christopher Williams Table

QuiQue - Monday, July 2, 2007 - 1:35am
Christopher Williams Table

Chris Williams with his finished hand forged wrought iron table made during the workshop at E. Vega Studios. See http://enrique.artmetal.com/metal_art/Creative_Metalsmithing_01_Workshop.html for more photos related to the workshop.


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Janet Rutkowski's picture

Simple Beginnings

Janet Rutkowski - Monday, July 2, 2007 - 8:49am

Hi QuiQue,
I've looked at all your students work...it must be fun teaching and having them make something so satisfing.
Do they have any previous experience? And how long is the class in time? Chris's table is very simple. Is it his first? Janet R.


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blindhogg's picture

Workshop

blindhogg - Monday, July 2, 2007 - 1:01pm

While I am not a beginner I can not say I have ever done anything even close to this magnitude before. I primarily in the past had only done things such as ashtrays, fire pokers, candlestick etc.. Doing something with 17 pieces such as this table, was for me extremely challenging yet very rewarding. I learned alot and feel my designs now will only get better.

Chris Williams


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Janet Rutkowski's picture

Congradulations Chris

Janet Rutkowski - Monday, July 2, 2007 - 2:09pm

Hi Chris,

Sorry, I hope you did'nt get upset with my comments. I saw the slide show, then the web site went down. It looked like an awesome experience!!!! Congradulations! Now take it and play with it. Good luck. Janet R.


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blindhogg's picture

Workshop

blindhogg - Monday, July 2, 2007 - 2:58pm

Janet
In no way did your comment upset me, don't worry I have very thick skin. The class was awesome, It consisted of 7 Saturday classes over the course of two months. Each class was 8 hours long and was a self paced class, part one was the design phase of each table. Next you build it, special emphasis was placed on ensuring we attempted to stay true to the design. In my case I built a jig to repeat the four pieces on the top of the table. The students pretty much steered the class depending on what they needed to know to complete their piece. Overall it was a very positive experience.

Chris Williams


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Rich Waugh's picture

Nice work, Chris!The

Rich Waugh - Monday, July 2, 2007 - 10:58pm

Nice work, Chris!

The hardest pieces to pull off successfully are the ones that look simple at first glance. Keeping the consistency of form, flow of movement and all the other factors in place is a challenge when there aren't a bunch of visual distractions and added frippery. You pulled this one off very nicely, indeed.

Hand forging is a whole 'nother realm from fabricating, and has many more potential pitfalls, but a successful end result like yours is highly rewarding. Making multiple elements and keeping them true to one another is one of the more difficult aspects of forging, but you did it well. Good work.

It's the little things, like the upsets on the legs, that are both challenging and oh, so necessary. Without those upsets, the legs would have no real substance, visually. That's a good design feature, and worth the effort of doing the upsets.

You have a very good teacher in QuiQue, and I envy you the opportunity to work with him. Snatch every chance you can get like that and your abilities will continue to expand.

Rich


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