In our monthly newsletter, Wood News, we have several columns that feature different woodworker’s Workshop Setups, Wood Carvings, and Woodworking Projects. In April’s newsletter, we featured Ramon Gibbs in our Show Us Your Stuff column. We wanted to share a little more information about Ramon and his projects, specifically his methods for creating his amazing scaled furniture.
From his website, Ramon describes his artistic method in the following way: “Before each creation I sit in meditation and envision the emotion of only one personality, that of the recipient or perhaps a place. I try to embrace that passion in an effort to take you to a place you have been longing to return, or enchanted by yearning fantasies.”
Ramon uses the passion that he describes in many of his pieces, some examples of which you can see below:
Jewelry Box Desk and Swivel Chair
Vanity
Baby Grand Piano
The Gatekeeper
Ramon has a specific method of creating the scale for his furniture. He creates it in 1/5 or 1/6 of the actual size by rounding up the actual dimensions of the piece he is reproducing and then dividing that number by 5 or 6 depending on the scale. He then mostly uses butt joints and glue versus more complicated joints and screws in order to put the pieces together.
If you are interested in seeing more of Ramon’s works you can visit his website HERE.