Hello and happy Friday, everyone. Today I'm pleased to debut the first in a series of posts that will appear each week, on Friday. The series' working title is Weekend Warriors, and it's about the good stuff: people who make things and the things they make in their free time, when not working for the man, feeding the business, or otherwise toiling on the j-o-b. We hope it's a dose of inspiration for you going into your own weekend... Another awesome reader project for today. Peter Von Erickson lives in New York and has a garage workspace in Brooklyn. He's a professional maker—he freelances building custom furniture and props for advertising and also teaches model-making part time in the industrial design department at Pratt—and it shows in the recycled wood desk he recently built for his wife. The desk is made from "parts found on the street, in my basement, in dumpsters, and at flea markets." Peter says it took about two years to find them all. They include: • Ball and claw legs taken from a sideboard found in Astoria, Queens • Glass knobs purchased at a flea market • Butterfly doors and hinges taken from a piece of discarded furniture Von Erickson found in his basement, thrown out by a neighbor moving back to Japan • Wood of the bottom drawers made from a headboard Von Erickson's wife found in a dumpster on a rainy night. She pulled the massive panels out of the trash and called her husband to pick up both her and the wood. Von Erickson's Brooklyn workspace includes "pretty much all the basics," he says. "Tablesaw, bandsaw, scrollsaw. It's pretty cramped right now as I recently acquired my grandfather's non-running 1955 Packard car as a restoration project." More pictures after the jump! Got something you've made that you'd like to see featured on this blog? Send it our way!

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