Second Shapes Design

Second Shapes
Design

Wooden furniture and objects, designed and crafted by hand in Monkton, Vermont.

Jeremy Brault in the Second Shapes workshop, beside a miter saw.
Jeremy Brault / Designer & makerMonkton, Vermont

Jeremy Brault's
Monkton workshop

Second Shapes Design is Jeremy Brault's workshop in Monkton, Vermont. He designs and handcrafts wooden furniture and objects.

The Triangle Stand is a contemporary Christmas tree stand made of solid maple and crafted by hand in small batches.

For the Triangle Stand, the maple comes from TreeHouse Hardwoods & Millshop in South Burlington, Vermont. The stand is finished with Sutherland Welles tung oil.

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Making the
Triangle Stand.

From the cutting jig to the assembled stand: maple parts, tools, and work in progress in Jeremy's Monkton workshop.

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Cutting, drilling & sanding

A maple stand leg in a wooden jig beside the table-saw blade.
The cutting setup
Small wood offcuts on the table beside a circular saw blade.
Offcuts by the saw
Shaped maple stand parts resting across a wooden jig on the workbench.
Shapes on the bench
A drilled maple stand leg with a metal T-nut partly inserted and another T-nut beside it.
Holes and hardware
A container holding a batch of metal T-nuts.
Hardware at hand
An orbital sander resting on drilled maple stand parts.
Sanding the maple
Maple stand parts on the workshop bench among a sander, drill, and hand tools.
A workshop in progress

Parts in batches

A row of shaped maple stand legs laid across the workshop bench.
A row of shaped legs
Drilled maple stand legs stacked diagonally across one another.
Drilled and stacked
A batch of maple stand parts with screws and T-nuts on a dark workbench.
Together on the bench
Several maple stand legs grouped together, showing the drilled ends and tapered profiles.
Parts in a row

Fitting the stand

Three maple legs, wood screws, thumb screws, and a bowl laid out before assembly.
The parts laid out
Jeremy fitting together the maple legs of a Triangle Stand.
Fitting the legs
Jeremy fitting together the wooden stand on a rug.
Taking shape
Hands holding two maple stand legs together while using a screwdriver at the joint.
Joining the legs
A close view of hands joining two maple stand legs with a screwdriver.
A closer look at the joint
Hands using a screwdriver at a corner of the triangular maple stand.
Joining a corner

Hardware & finished details

A close view of the maple joint with two wood screws and two protruding thumb screws.
Screws and grain
The maple side pieces, thumb screws, and bowl of an assembled stand.
Wood, bowl, and hardware
Two metal thumb screws passing through a maple stand leg above the bowl.
The thumb screws
The triangular maple frame around a stainless steel bowl, viewed from above.
The view from above
The triangular center, wood screws, thumb screws, and bowl of the assembled maple stand.
The assembled stand
Three maple stand legs packed flat in an illustrated paper wrap on a wooden floor.
Wrapped and ready
Two wood screws and two thumb screws in a maple stand corner, viewed from the side.
Hardware from the side
A close view of two maple stand legs meeting at a corner with wood screws visible.
The maple corner
A stack of tapered maple stand legs with an illustrated paper wrap, viewed from the side.
Packed flat
The triangular maple stand frame and thumb screws, viewed from above.
The triangular frame
A maple stand surrounding a metal bowl, with thumb screws visible from above.
The bowl inside the frame
Assembly instructions

Contact Jeremy

For questions about the Triangle Stand, production runs, or ordering, email Jeremy.

jeremy@jeremybrault.com