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  • Halloween Week Special | Michael Bridges

    Halloween Week Special | Michael Bridges


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    Michael Bridges | Episode 1075

    Michael Bridges is a potter living in Chicago, Illinois. Michael is a hand builder that identifies as a wheel thrower. Skulls, jack-o-lanterns, and spookiness are right at home in Michael’s work.

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    How do you fire your work?

    I work with as many different firing processes as I can. Soda fire, earthenware. 04. sculptural, I do a little bit of cone 6 as well.

    How much time to do you invest into each piece? 

    Too much. (laughter) I work on it until it’s done. Sometimes that’s an hour, sometimes that’s four or five full days.

    Your work has very child-like features although I know you are a skilled potter. How much effort are you putting in to make sure it’s not too refined. 

    Learning how to walk away from a piece is harder than making something look perfect. In my opinion. It’s taken me years to learn when to let it go.

    Do you sell your work year round?

    I do sell year round, often by appointment or email or direct contact. In terms of online sales I generally put most of my work online towards the end of the year in October, November, December. And that allows me the freedom earlier in the year to explore new ideas. So I don’t have that pressure of constantly having to sell.

    Is there a piece that you would like to make but your skill levels don’t quite reach?

    I would really like to work large. That’s a big want is to work five, six feet tall. Life size.  I don’t have the facilities for it now but that is the vision at some point is to make life-size work.

    What is your favorite holiday?

    Hmm. Favorite holiday. I am going to have to think on it. As a side note I grew up working on all holidays. I worked in a vacation town so I never took holidays, I worked through every holiday. And then in the bakery industry I also worked through the holidays. So I kind of hate holidays for that reason. (laughter) So that’s a tough question. So I am an antiholiday guy. I guess I am going to have to go with Halloween. It’s the one where you get to dress up , that’s probably the closest that I’ve had to enjoying a holiday would be Halloween.

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  • New Edition of ‘Roubo on Furniture’ (With a Special Price)

    New Edition of ‘Roubo on Furniture’ (With a Special Price)


    We’ve just received 3,000 copies of our newest edition of “With All the Precision Possible: Roubo on Furniture” and are offering it for a special introductory price: $100 with free domestic shipping until April 20, 2025.

    This new edition is a significant upgrade “trade” edition, which was in black-and-white and on uncoated paper. The new edition is printed in color, so you can fully appreciate the tone of the cotton paper from the 18th-century engravings. We upgraded the paper to a #100 coated matte paper, enlarged the page size, added printed end sheets and include a tear-resistant dust jacket.

    Why do this? Well, I never thought our “trade” edition quite matched the gravity of the project. Don Williams, Michele Pietryka-Pagán and Philippe Lafargue spent years translating the writings of André Roubo’s “l’art du Menuisier.” It is the world’s first masterpiece of woodworking writing, and only bits and pieces were ever translated into English.

    So last year we began working on a replacement for our “trade” edition. It’s arrived in our warehouse, and it is impressive.

    Like all things with the Roubo project, the printing bill was massive. And so to recoup some of that money, we are offering it at a 20 percent discount with free domestic shipping until April 20, 2025. After that, it will be $125 (still a good price, I must say).

    You can read more about the book here. Or watch this cheesy ad I made:



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