my name is philip morley i'm a custom
furniture maker in wimberley texas my
studio is at my home and my passion is
to build the best pieces i possibly can
every tool everything i have in this
shop is designed to do the job well safe
and save me time people ask a lot about
you know the shape of origin and how it
fits within my work so i'm someone that
came from traditional training there's
many crazy techniques that you would do
i'm glad that i had to learn that way
but for me right now i'm not trying to
prove that i can do
this by hand or dovetails by hand i'm
looking to do the best work i can it's
about the end result to me if i can
knock out some templates of origin in
you know 10 15 minutes why wouldn't i
choose that route over spending hours or
half a day by doing it conventionally
it's not cutting corners because of
course it does probably a better job
than what i was doing before it
obviously does it faster but any time i
can get quicker at work that means i'm
making a little bit more money on each
job that means my family is doing a
little bit better so
having an origin has dramatically
changed the workflow it kind of does
work in a way with pretty much all the
tools in my shop
i've also obviously made fixtures with
some jigs with the shape of origin that
then later on you know you put the shape
of origin away and i'm putting my part
and i can make repeatable cuts by using
the bandsaw table saw my big shaper my
router table so by streamlining that
process is absolutely huge
as a custom furniture shop building
one-of-a-kind pieces
never quite charging enough it seems so
any time i can save is really helping
the bottom line so i know a lot of the
influence comes from james cronov kind
of scandinavian phone shirt and it's the
same deal like less is more but that
doesn't mean easy work like honestly
leaving things very clean and
adding those little profiles it doesn't
hide anything so you see everything but
a lot of his works really spoke to me
and it's just subtle little details
that you add
you know i kind of had my own shape
origin from the get-go i think i
remember watching one of their very
first live streams on instagram and
straight away i've saw the application
for the type of work i do
of course it does a lot more than just
templates but even if i were to only use
it for templates absolutely because it
is it's such a time saver and that was
apparent pretty much straightaway out of
the box you know there's a learning
curve with any tool being able to like
combine the computer software and the
origin together and make them just work
perfectly
that's that's huge for me and it's just
just like any tool you know it's like
limitations restrictions just how to use
it the little nuances about it i can't
remember the first job i did but i know
it's just like aha moment like okay
i should have got this a lot earlier
because this saves me so much time
i don't necessarily do full size
drawings anymore only with chairs chairs
i still do that but typically i'm
working within a program called sketchup
the nice thing with that is i'm already
designing in this 3d program
there's a disconnect from the computer
to the shop where with the shape origin
it's really just a huge time saver to
where very quickly i can spit out this
3d template pull out my machine within
15 minutes i'm cutting this template and
there's many times i look and go i don't
like that so i'll take a measurement
then go back to the computer change it
up spit out another template it works so
well for me from from the beginning of
every project that i do i'm using the
shape of origin it's kind of a crazy
technology so it's basically a handheld
cnc what's cool about it is as you're
watching it on the screen you're cutting
and making the kind of the big movements
and it's fixing your mistakes it's
correcting as it goes it's that balance
which i think is perfect in my shop i
think of myself as a prototype shop but
then i do
limited runs of things so this this bar
storm actually sitting in now this
countertop storm center now is a good
example for that the foot rest
i could make a jig for it it would be
probably like a three-part jig and it
still be very time consuming kind of
using a guide bushing system that we
mentioned before but instead since i'm
not making a hundred of them i made i
think
12 or so of them it just made sense the
shape origin worked really well with
that in conjunction with the workstation
that we could pocket out and make that
inlay
upon my crafters i'm really passionate
about sharing it i wouldn't be where i
am now if people don't share their
knowledge to me
but i teach mainly at mark adams in
indiana florida school of woodworking
i'm a co-founder of the austin school of
furniture our hope is to really just
pass on this this passion the knowledge
of woodworking to give people maybe a
different path different career path and
be something good for the community too
i've always wanted a cnc budget
space electrical needs
air compressor there's so much that goes
into that you could talk about 60 grand
for big cnc and to me this was like okay
this makes more sense so right away from
the get-go i knew it was going to be
something where since i do 3d rendering
i could spit those templates out and
make templates and make jigs very
efficiently and then you know i just put
it back in the box and it sits on the
shelf it takes up my room
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