First things first: the website hasn’t been getting a lot of love: as always, the best way to stay on top of what I’m up to is to check in on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ A few things:
Its been a while since I last updated the distinctive woodworking website: most of my content updates have been going to instagram at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ If you’re here thanks to that marvellous advertisement in Ottawa at Home, and would like to…
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My day job is as a web-site system performance test engineer (My job is to break websites before real users do!) But that also means that my own website is often not in very good shape. So this is an…
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Hi. By coming here, you’re probably curious about furniture or pens that I create. I have to be straightforward: I’ve been terrible about keeping the website up to date, but if you follow me at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ you’ll see that I’ve…
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Merry Christmas to all of my customers and students If you’ve received one of my creations as a Christmas gift: I do hope you enjoy it. if you have any questions please do use my Get In Touch link….
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Thanks to folks for a couple of quick warnings about the site being hacked. It was indeed true, and it should be fixed now: all posts were compromised with an injected link that sent you off to inappropriate sites. My…
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Its been a busy few months at Distinctive Woodworking: more wood time than website time. As always: the best way to stay up to date is to keep an eye on my instagram feed at https://www.instagram.com/distinctivewoodworking/ or my facebook feed at https://www.facebook.com/PensByJonathan/…
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Well, one must always know when its time to add something to the blog… When one realizes that its been since Christmas! Last night was the Viennese Winter Ball. Its one of our favourite events to support because of the…
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I’ve got an active Facebook page at Distinctive Woodworking/Pens By Jonathan at Facebook which keeps an active list of upcoming events but if you’re coming from Ottawa At Home Magazine a little bit of additional information. I do not have a ‘bricks and…
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It has been a busy summer. Getting ready for the fall craft sales season, preparing commissions for clients, and teaching many seminars at Lee Valley tools has made it challenging to remember little things like keeping the website up to date….
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If you’re coming to my page thanks to my advertisement in the Music and Beyond program, thank you. If you are interested in furniture or beautiful pens, please get in touch, either by leaving a comment to this post, or…
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This weekend (the May 7/8) weekend was a handful. Presenting as a vendor at the Cheerfully Made Market in Almonte with my wood turned items at the same time as my friend Krista (of http://www.quilted4you.com ) was arranging to display my quilt…
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Looking forward to the cheerfully made markets sale in Almonte Sunday May 8th. http://markets.cheerfullymade.com/ Come and check out some of my new work: These are super quick iPhone snaps: not perfectly composed, ed but I love the mechanisms and the…
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As I write this the house is quiet. My daughters are still ensconced in their beds, one with the dog and one of the cats curled up beside her. Having seen some of the iPhone snapshots my wife and I…
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Getting 30 items ready for the ball took another family event. We sorted out all the pen boxes, each of which is custom laser etched. Then we deployed the gift pens I had made for each deb and cav and…
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My wonderful clients Heather and Chad recently had a dinner party and took a moment to capture pictures of their new dining room table and chairs I recently delivered. Solid cherry tabletop made from recovered cherry trees that fell during…
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And finally, its time to actually create the pen. If you’ve been reading along, you’ve seen how I’ve gone from a block of wood to smaller pieces of wood, to holes drilled by my son, gluing with my daughter, and finally…
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So after doing all the work to get to this stage, its time (finally) to actually MAKE the pen. The pens are squared up using a special tool, and mounted on the lathe. I then begin to cut the pens….
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For the gifts for the Ottawa’s Viennese Winter Ball, I’ve talked about the ‘easy’ parts of making a set of pens so far. But then it gets sticky. As in glue. Over the fifteen plus years that I have made pens,…
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Working on a large commission like for the Viennese Winter Ball requires organization. When I’m making one or two pens for a client, I can be extremely specific about the piece of wood, but I do not need to be quite as…
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