About Earnest

Earnest : resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction

Hi, I'm Daniel and Earnest is a place where I put all of my projects including resoling climbing shoes, ceramics, leather, sewing/textiles, concrete, bicycles and other things as they come my way.

RESOLING

About 5 years ago I took a beginners to bouldering class at Rock Jungle boulders and loved it. It became a 3 day a week activity for me and quickly burned through a pair of shoes.. I knew I could do it myself and began the journey of finding out as much as I could about it via youtube and other resolers on Instagram. Currently, resoling is fairly slow as I only have 1 drop/pick up box at VERTICALLY INCLINED. But, glad to have the time to do other projects.

CERAMICS 

Started a couple years ago with my friend Emma Cranston of the same name pottery studio. It started as a single project to build a specific planter and has progressed into helping her around the studio with some of the more menial jobs in trade for studio time, her knowledge and firings. As I've been learning I've been building a variety of things.

LEATHER

This started with Kyle Closen of Clos Leather goods accepting my pleading to apprentice with him. Learned a ton from him and that's what got me into sewing. These days I like to use leather to accent other material rather than use it as a stand alone for products. It's amazingly versatile and smells great!

SEWING/TEXTILES

As mentioned above, I started learning this with Kyle at Clos Leather Goods. I've really enjoyed learning to sew garments and have a few pieces under my belt... literally. Monique and Nicole from FORMER and LATTER fabrics, Beverly Gan from The HOUSE of SEW have been great to learn from and attend workshops with. Textiles have been lumped in here to as I traded a session learning to weave with Fern from FERNS SCHOOL OF CRAFT for some technical repairs. More to come from that front I'm sure.

CONCRETE

SINKS! Built one for Emma's pottery studio and planning a couple more for other spaces. Loads of fun working with this material.

BICYCLES

Ridden them for ever. Some projects are percolating....... 

WORK FOR A LIVING

Currently, I'm an active member in the Millwright and Machinery Erectors Union Local 1460. Layoffs come and go and I take the time to immerse myself into the above projects.

COMMISSION OR TRADES -  Definitely interested and any projects or ideas I can be a part of. If you have skill in a particular area I am always willing to trade my mechanical/problem solving skills to gain knowledge in craft, other trades or creative practices.

Thanks for checking this out!

Daniel Corbett