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GALLERIES
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GALLERIES
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GALLERIES
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2014-12-17
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STUDENT WORK
bending and veneering
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STUDENT WORK
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STUDENT WORK
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STUDENT WORK
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2014-12-24
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salvaged by:
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salvaged by:
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salvaged by:
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salvaged by:
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2014-11-22
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CLICKTHROUGH TEMPLATE - single detail photo
as you can see here i did
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CLICKTHROUGH TEMPLATE
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2016-01-02
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Round Walnut Leaf Table
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Round Walnut Leaf Table
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Round Walnut Leaf Table
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Round Walnut Leaf Table
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Round Walnut Leaf Table
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2016-10-30
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Zinc and Carved Walnut Console
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Zinc and Carved Walnut Console
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Zinc and Carved Walnut Console
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Zinc and Carved Walnut Console
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Zinc and Carved Walnut Console
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Zinc and Carved Walnut Console
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2017-02-06
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Walnut and Maple Corner Table
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Walnut and Maple Corner Table
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Walnut and Maple Corner Table
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Walnut and Maple Corner Table
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Walnut and Maple Corner Table
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2017-02-06
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Bleached Maple and Blue Leather Lounge
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Bleached Maple and Blue Leather Lounge
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Bleached Maple and Blue Leather Lounge
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2017-02-11
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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Suspended Drawer Box White Oak Desk
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2017-02-12
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Reclaimed Oak Dining Table
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Reclaimed Oak Dining Table
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Reclaimed Oak Dining Table
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Reclaimed Oak Dining Table
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Reclaimed Oak Dining Table
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Reclaimed Oak Dining Table
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2013-10-29
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ripple door china cabinet
in carving the texture we increased the surface area dramatically and exposed a good deal of end-grain
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ripple door china cabinet
this would likely increase moisture absorption and evaporation in the carved area, the entire fronts of both doors
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ripple door china cabinet
to counter uneven moisture intake and the resulting twisting or cupping, we carved the interior of each door as well. traditionally a door of this size would be frame-and-panel to prevent this kind of warping that takes place on even an uncarved surface, but in the name of beauty we did our best and sent it packing
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ripple door china cabinet
book-matched drawer faces resawn from some 8/4 walnut we had left over from a past project
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ripple door china cabinet
drawers lined with silver cloth
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ripple door china cabinet
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2013-12-30
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old-growth redwood jewelry chest - pop top
I glued it up as a closed box, then cut the lid off on the table saw with a high fence. Tear-out was a concern but using blocks on the underside of the cut, and a line of masking tape along the inside of the box helped to minimize it.
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old-growth redwood jewelry chest - aromatic cedar
I carefully fit the aromatic cedar (not salvaged) to the inside of the box and tapered it from bottom to top just enough so that the top would go on easy and snug up as it seated.
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old-growth redwood jewelry chest - two tone
The wood for the top, bottom and sides came from the board I salvaged in Glen Park, and the legs and handles came from another board, bought from a salvage yard, thus the different shades.
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old-growth redwood jewelry chest - lines
I eased the edge along the sides a fair amount to make that horizontal line more pronounced, and left the edges on the leg cuts relatively hard to accent the vertical lines.
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old-growth redwood jewelry chest - invisible bookmatch
The top and bottom were bookmatched just to make the pieces wide enough, although with the perfectly quartersawn grain it only shows as two slightly darker symmetrical stripes.
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old-growth redwood jewelry chest - curves
I oriented the naturally curving grain to work with the coves on the legs to soften the boxy shape.
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old-growth redwood jewelry chest - done and finished
I used a wipe-on oil varnish blend on the outside, followed by wax, and left the inside unfinished so the aromatic cedar could do its work. I call it a jewelry chest just because of the size; as is sometimes the case with my designs, it was made without a prescribed end-use in mind.
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2022-01-29
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CONTACT
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CONTACT
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2013-11-30
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router jig bench - previous life
I guess I failed to take a picture of the jig in use, but here it is perched on the work. The big logs were left intentionally imperfect in terms of flatness and square, but to give it a relatively flat even top surface I flipped them upside down on my bench (with lots of help) and built the jig to reference the flat bench top as I cut the grooves for the steel bases.
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router jig bench - job well done
Steel in place, a good snug fit, the jig can now retire. Side note: I stopped short on the last pass with the router and used a round file to match the radius of the steel.
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router jig bench - just add oil
Painted out the MDF legs and edges of the walnut ply, then hit the whole thing with a few coats of wipe-on poly.
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router jig bench - cowboy boot test
Perfect fit. Not all my shoes. But yeah, the cowboy boots are.
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router jig bench - top detail
Didn't bother to hide the screws or the staples. My goal for jig furniture is minimal alteration and a quick finish.
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2013-12-27
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kitchen table retrofit - partially stripped and sanded
Here's the table in its original form, less a few coats of lacquer.
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kitchen table retrofit - the guts
As is so often the case, adding a few inches of height and a drawer turned out to be a lot more complicated than it sounded. This is what the insides ended up looking like.
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kitchen table retrofit - and with the top
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kitchen table retrofit
To save milling time we used stock oak moulding from the local big box depot.
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kitchen table retrofit - rainbow oak
In varying states of finished-ness you can see we had a handful of different colors going on. I offered to take a crack at staining it even, but I was already so many hours deep in this thing the boss opted to do it himself.
https://www.farrwoodwork.com/mcshelf
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2014-01-01
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McShelf - pretty green
almost all salvaged materials, including the vases
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McShelf - minus the flowers
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McShelf - minus the vases
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McShelf - left
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McShelf - right
you can see the satin finish here. it's just a few coats of wax.
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McShelf - and the hidden drawer
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McShelf - walnut drawer
because the shop is littered with walnut scraps
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McShelf - still going
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McShelf - piston fit drawer
with a very slight gap between drawer face and wall so it doesn't drag. when pulled out this far it comes to a stop but if you give it a little tug...
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McShelf - ...a gratuitous secret compartment
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McShelf - the mechanism
I put a ball catch, which is a spring loaded ball bearing, in the bottom of the case. A notch in the back of the drawer lets it pass smoothly over the ball catch, while a carefully placed double sided ramp passes over the ball catch only with some force. Worked pretty well.
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2013-11-30
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MADE BY: - nightstands
in bleached white oak with leather accents
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MADE BY: - three-tiered nightstands
in stained walnut
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MADE BY: - ripple-door china cabinet
in walnut, blackened steel base
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MADE BY: - frustum dining table
stained white oak veneer with marble top
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MADE BY: - claro slab dining table
bookmatched live-edge claro walnut top with solid walnut base
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MADE BY:
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MADE BY: - solid claro top dining table
the top of the console table in the foreground is a removable leaf for the dining table. base is acacia
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MADE BY: - built in sewing table and cabinets
wrap around counter space for some crafting with a view of the San Francisco bay
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frustum dining table - view from the bottom
I started with a top and bottom circle cut on the bandsaw with a tilted jig to get the angle. I connected the circles with an x up the middle to transfer the load directly downward and eight additional ribs around the outside.
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frustum dining table - lid
I cut a section out of the bottom circle to allow access, so I could screw through the top circle into the the top frustum to make the hourglass
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frustum dining table - top frustum
I used a similar method for the top one, this time using 16 ribs radiating out from a central column. though the ribs appear short in both dimensions, by the fourth layer of 1/8" balsa ply it will be pretty much spot on.
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frustum dining table - with one layer of skin
skinning this one was trickier, as the balsa ply really only wants to bend across one dimension and I was forcing it to contort across several. This photo is a good look at how it would bend fine up the center of each slice (4 per layer) but towards the ends it would fight back and try to buckle. The obvious solution would be to break it into smaller slices but at the cost of more time and materials I decided to just go with it.
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frustum dining table - with all four layers
clear view of the four "slice" layout. I staggered the seams on each layer to keep the curve as smooth as possible. rather than trying to taper the last layer down to nothing I ended it short, and used bondo to finish the curve.
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frustum dining table - veneering
here you can see the purple bondo line fairing out that taper. because the top (big) circle was made from 1/2" MDF and the final edge profile was 1/4" there was a slight ridge which I carefully beltsanded fair. a little about veneering this odd shape
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frustum dining table - wish this was the last picture...
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frustum dining table - ...but nope
Soaked with bleach (to the point where it lifted my seams) then stained a satin blue-gray. I actually like the color but again, I hate to see the grain washed out. Capped with a beautiful chunk of marble.
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mainpagetemplate - solid claro top dining table
the top of the console table in the foreground is a removable leaf for the dining table. base is acacia
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mainpagetemplate - built in sewing table and cabinets
wrap around counter space for some crafting with a view of the San Francisco bay
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photopagetemplate - 16 legs
I also saved the cut-offs from the leg tapers, for an as yet unimagined future project
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photopagetemplate - satin finish
I used an aerosol spray-on poly to get in all the gaps, and for its fast dry-time
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photopagetemplate - off square
in the spirit of non-functionality I didn't measure, either for spacing or square. I applied the tiles using rub joints, which is to say I glued them on
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photopagetemplate - rough finish
minimal sanding to preserve the tool marks... and because there were 60+ of them
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photopagetemplate - layout
it took a surprising amount of time to land on this arrangement. I tried to avoid repeating combinations and uninterupted shadow lines
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twin peaks craft room - first scribe
Scribing is basically tracing the shape of the wall onto your work, and then cutting that line to ensure a clean fit regardless of the flatness or squareness of the wall.
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twin peaks craft room - removable panel
To make this scribe I made the entire panel (left side of screen) removable, so that I could secure the cabinet in place, make the scribe, then fasten the panel back in place with screws through the inside of the cabinet. As you can see there's no gaps, thanks largely to a liberal amount of white caulk.
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twin peaks craft room - two part counter top
The two lengths of counter top were joined in place using dogbones, basically a fixed-nut and bolt setup that can be tightened from below. Then it was scribed, pulled off the wall and cut, and pushed back into place where it was fastened from below to the cabinets and cleats on the walls, here obstructed by a white modesty panel.
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twin peaks craft room - recessed surface
This positions the working surface of the sewing machine flush with the counter top for quilting. The front of the recessed box was left open to accommodate a knee-operated lever and the cord to the foot pedal. To the left, a powerstrip mounted upside down with its cord running along the underside of the counter and through a hole in the modesty panel to the obscured outlet behind it.
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twin peaks craft room - bad picture of an amazing view
Looking out on most of San Francisco, the bay, and beyond that the East Bay.
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twin peaks craft room - More view
The rest of San Francisco, more of the bay, and Oakland in the background. Man I have to get that sawdust out of my camera.
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16 legs wall hanging - 16 legs
I also saved the cut-offs from the leg tapers, for an as-yet unimagined future project
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16 legs wall hanging - satin finish
I used an aerosol spray-on poly to get in all the gaps, and for its fast dry-time
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16 legs wall hanging - off square
in the spirit of non-functionality I didn't measure, either for spacing or square. I applied the tiles using rub joints, which is to say I glued them on
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16 legs wall hanging - rough finish
minimal sanding to preserve the tool marks... and because there were 60+ tiles
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16 legs wall hanging - layout
it took a surprising amount of time to land on this arrangement. I tried to avoid repeating combinations and uninterrupted gap lines
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DESIGNED AND MADE BY: - old-growth redwood jewelry chest
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DESIGNED AND MADE BY: - acacia and walnut coffee table
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in oak
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in reclaimed wainscot
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three-tiered nightstands - dark finish
The finish was beautifully executed but as a matter of personal taste, I like when you can still see wood grain.
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three-tiered nightstands - fully breakdownable
Our clients love to tinker with the design... often right up until the moment it leaves the shop. I've learned the hard way to use screws without glue whenever I can get away with it. These nightstands break down to five components each screwed from below into the tier above it.
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three-tiered nightstands
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three-tiered nightstands - drawers
with such a small box to fit a drawer in this would have been a good spot to use old-fashioned hardwood runners, but someone up the chain called out side-mount hardware so that's what I did.
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three-tiered nightstands - removable bottom
In order to make the hardware accessible, I made part of the bottom of the box removable. To make up for the weakened structure I added a vertical block in the drawer box as close to the center as I could without shrinking the drawer size too much.
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three-tiered nightstands
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lounge chair (2016)
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claro dining table - claro figuring
some of those swirls and curls on display, especially near the pith (center of the tree, and roughly the center of each of the slabs)
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claro dining table - more claro
another look at the bookmatched slab top, really the standout feature of this table. I also like the 1/2" gap running down the middle and the squared ends adding a little geometry to balance out the natural curve of the live edge.
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claro dining table - black walnut base
The base was done in 16/4 solid black walnut, stained to match the top. The claro slabs were thankfully unstained, given a close-to-the-surface satin clear coat, almost looks like danish oil. My favorite.
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claro dining table - dealing with big slabs
there's a lot of ways I could have handled the rip cuts on these 3" thick slabs but I think what I did was route a groove with a long straight-edge, jigsaw close to the line, flip it and route the rest of the way with a bottom-bearing bit, if that means anything to you. The crosscuts I did with this huge circular saw.
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claro dining table - huge circular saw
for not-so-fine woodworking
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claro dining table - steel ribs
We incorporated a pretty robust custom steel skeleton to try to minimize twist, cup and bow in the big slabs.
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claro dining table - challenging mortise
These custom steel brackets had to be mortised into the tops of the bases. They were similar but not identical so I got close with router templates and finished with those chisels in the background
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acacia and walnut coffee table
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acacia and walnut coffee table
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acacia and walnut coffee table
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acacia and walnut coffee table
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acacia and walnut coffee table
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acacia and walnut coffee table
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acacia and walnut coffee table - apartment scale
At 17" x 34" its a small coffee table for a small sofa in a small apartment
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acacia and walnut coffee table
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