Retail Products for Fox Wedge Furniture
Home Decor
About These Products
The goal with these products wasn’t to make money. In fact, they didn’t really make a profit. They were made for two reasons: they were a great way to test out batch production and manufacturing methods, and they were specifically designed to use scrap wood leftover from furniture builds in an effort to make our company more sustainable. Everything was designed, programmed, and prototyped by me, and once I was satisfied with each product, I worked closely with the builders to select scrap wood and refine each program to use that specific size of scrap.
Catch-All Trays
These trays stack and are carved entirely on the CNC with minimal sanding and processing. I designed it, ran prototypes, programmed the CNC, and created processing instructions for this job. The version with the engraving in the dish was used for marketing purposes.
Egg Trays
These trays use a dovetail router bit to cut the back-bevel at the bottom, allowing the machining to be done in one program rather than having to flip it after carving the holes. Each hole is carved on the CNC using a ball end bit and tiny stepdowns to reduce sanding time.
Incense Holders
These incense holders are cut on the CNC, then the hole is drilled by hand. I calculated the exact angle for the ash to gracefully fall into the groove without falling out of the holder using Autodesk Fusion during the prototyping phase.
Unique Wooden Vases
In an effort in sustainability, all of our small products were made from scrap wood. We used the most difficult scrap pieces to create these handcrafted vases, using the natural textures and features of the wood to drive the final form of the vase before sanding and finishing the piece. I drew the design of each cutout on the stock before working with the builders to create each vase.
Napkin Rings
These napkin rings were an exercise in tenacity. They look so great, but figuring out how to process them was a pain. Eventually we realized that sliding them onto a blank and sanding them all at once on the belt sander was the fastest way to make it happen, but unfortunately, I don’t have photographic evidence (plus full disclosure, it wasn’t even my solution so I would hate to take credit for it).
Mancala Board
Obviously the mancala board is a modified version of the egg tray, but it’s because people kept coming up to the egg tray and getting really excited thinking it was a mancala board. So I gave the people what they wanted (apparently): mancala.
