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Cherry Entertainment Center
Cherry entertainment center
Walnut slab table. I bought an entire flitch of 3" thick walnut for this table. I am pretty good at reading the grain but I must say that I was blown away after the first coat of linseed oil. The grain in these slabs is incredible. It has a beautiful bee's wing figure that shimmers.
Natural edge after removing the bark.
After surfacing the slabs I noticed some bright spots. Upon closer inspection I determined that they were shotgun pellets. These have been locked inside the tree for the past 60 years or more. I had to leave them in the finished table. These tell a little about the history of the tree.
Round curly cherry dining table with simple stringing in legs. I made this table for a Fine Woodworking article.
Walnut Dropleaf Table
Fiddleback Maple, Cherry and Flame Birch Desk. This Client loved using highly figured woods.
Cherry and burled maple hutch built for the same client as the desk.
Walnut desk made from an old door. The legs are tapered bent laminations with through tenoned stretchers.
For most of my furniture commissions I will model the project using 3D CAD software. This allows me and the customer to fine tune the design before the first piece of wood is cut.
Figured Walnut Balnket Chest
Crotch mahogany and satinwood dictionary stand with custom made brass hardware
Dictionary stand showing nice detail of custom brass hardware.
Cherry and birdseye maple blanket chest
Crotch mahogany and sapele wall shelf.
Details of stringing on wall shelf.
Sheraton end table- solid mahogany with mahogany crotch drawer front
Detail view of entertainment center highlighting fluted quarter columns.
Built-in Entertainment Center
Curly Makore Mantle
Built-In unit to fit recess in wall
Platform Bed with burled walnut panels. This bed has 6 large drawers underneath for storage
I recently had the opportunity to teach a class at Roy Underhill's Woodwrights School in Pittsboro. This is the project I designed for teaching "hoppered dovetails". Those compound angle dovetails are trickier than you would think.
Cherry Cradle with compound angle through dovetails.
Previous Projects
Publications
Fine Woodworking Magazine-A Round Kitchen Classic Issue #145

Furniture, Great Designs From Fine Woodworking; Taunton Press

Popular Woodworking Magazine-Compound Dovetails- April 2013