Nicole Gordon – Hawk Wind Creations

Why a Maker Charges for Drawings Before Sawdust

A man once emailed a photograph of a sideboard he liked, asked for “the same but a bit longer,” and

The commission was a pair of iron handrails for a stoop, which sounds like a two-day job until you measure

The table came back in February with a crack running 18 in along the grain, opening about 1/8 in at

A client once described a finished concrete terrace as “the colour of a wet cardboard box,” and she was right.

A finish argument in the shop usually starts with someone saying they want a natural look, and ends when a

The drawing was a wall with a 14 ft curve in it, a cantilevered bench growing out of the face,

A client sent a photograph of a pair of brass handles eight months after delivery, worried that something had gone

The worst damage I have ever seen to a finished piece happened in a stairwell, four feet from its final

Somebody had repointed the bottom six courses of a rowhouse front with a grey cement mortar, struck it flat, and

The question that arrives in every first conversation is how long it will take, and the honest first answer —