Loki Custom Furniture creates custom and unique furniture and interiors combing woods and metals.
I went to Massachusetts College of Art and majored in sculpture. While there I produced many large scale totemic sculptures combining massive wood beams and steel forms I fabricated. After college I worked for a fine furniture maker in New York and was exposed to the world of furniture making. Returning to Boston, I spent the following ten years working for a variety of contemporary and fine furniture makers, cabinet makers as well as a titanium bicycle frame manufacturer. Working for these companies I acquired a broad range of skills including bent laminate furniture making, cabinetmaking, precision machining, manufacturing and drafting. In 2004 I started Loki Custom Furniture. My goal has always been to produce high quality custom handmade furniture combining a wide variety of materials. I find working with architects, designers and clients to realize their dreams is fulfilling. One half of my shop is devoted to welding, machining and metalworking while the other half is devoted to woodworking. It’s not uncommon to find me working with delicate wood veneer one day and then heavy steel the next. I find that combining a wide variety of materials gives my furniture a warmth, contrast and presence that make my furniture unique.
I'm Jamie C We're located just north of Boston in Massachusetts. I build custom furniture combining a wide variety of metals with woods with a lean towards a more modern kind of aesthetic. I've always Metals really lend themselves towards perfection and each piece of wood is its own unique thing. I always get excited when I get to use the plate roller. This was my first big metal working machine purchase. It was the first machine I ever had that had kind of push button controls, digital readouts. If you're rotating your plate as you go continually, you can get all the way around and there's basically no flat spot. Realistically the machine can do a pre-bend and then one setting and you roll and you're done. I was blown away by how easy it was. It doesn't stop being fun to hit the button and have the hydraulic drop on the end drop down. I've done other things for clients that are not single radius rolls. They're multiple compounded radii to get to a shape. I've been able to roll things that are 3 1u20448 flat bar to then weld up a fixture but then I could heat form around that. Beyond the machine I found everyone I dealt with from Trilogy just genuinely curious about what I was doing because I probably didn't fit the typical industrial machine customer profile. For sure I can note a difference from what I built in 2004 to what I've built now. They're two different things entirely.
