startspace opening 6 23

there is an opening at startspace in manchester tomorrow, 6/23/18, from 4 to 7.

i will be there with perhaps 17 other artists for the 'summer show' of abstract

and non representational painting and sculpture .. 

more information on the 18 artists exhibiting at

http://startspace.art/

lots to see ... come by if you can ...

june

where does the time go?  it's almost the first day of summer !!

since my last blog post on may 22nd we have been ripping through

lots of projects including some that were in the works a month ago.

below is a sample of some of the more interesting ones

a nice walnut coffee table .. 40 x 60 x 18 with two drawers

a beautiful job on a king size cherry pencil post bed by trevor

first time running the pencil posts and mortises on the cnc

safe and perfect .. gold star for trevor

 and i got some time in on the lathe for the finials .. 

first time i turned anything in  quite a while ... 

kinda like riding a bicycle, but not quite ... i'm a little rusty ...

 and the metal shop has been particularly busy the last couple of weeks

sam installed this railing high above lake george today .. 16' 7" long ..

and he made some parts for another railing before this one .. 

same  builder, different house

lots of parts

lots of railing too

and tyler did 5 repairs the week before last ..

this chair was a family heirloom and needed some love

like some new front rail tenons

tah dah .. ready for another hundred years

and the cutest little chair about 18" high ... 

it needed a disassemble, reglue and polish 

and we installed vanities 3 and 4 on the vanity project

chris has become the resident vanity expert .. 

danby imperial on site now by bennington marble and granite

ready for plumbing by GSK climate control this week

and we picked up the 'thoreau cabin project' bed from sandy sherman chair caning yesterday

beautiful job by tyler and sandy

and today tyler and i finished the reproduction rocker for the cabin ..

though i have made a lot of windsors over the last 40 years, this one was

the first in this style and the first windsor in about 15 years

talk about rusty for sure .. 

quite the four weeks ...

a steel and oak dining table

we dropped this one off last friday ... 

it had to go to a second floor dining room and the boys

said they barely made it up the steps and in. 

an inch longer and it may not have fit .. funny,

it didn't seem tight when i was there to see the space

it was another, based on this maple table we made last fall

cad drawing

two possible layouts

the base on it's jig being fitted up

welded up

seven steel butterflies

on site ...

popular design!  i've got a proposal out on another smaller one, 32 x 48 x 36 high

a king size bed

this one has been in the works for a while, and we delivered

it last thursday, just in time for mother's day weekend ...

fine figured mahogany from our friends at irion lumber

the obligatory 'before' shot

there were several conspt drawings, this one showing the top

of the plank below the lights

with a photoshopped concept sketch in the early going

more of these wide planks on irion's website .. i have 

a 42 " one waiting to be shipped once we deliver 

the table we made recently from another one ...

the 'stairway/ and around the corner' situation was EXTREMELY tight 

so we did a test install ahead of finishing .. 

  another inch longer or wider and we wouldn't have made it 

                                      

mocking it up in the shop with photoshop

color sample

it took some careful loading in the truck and the van to get it all there

love this shot going in the front door

trevor on the tail end ...
a fun and rewarding project!

a serious blast from the past

crazy one here!  we made this cabinet in 1989 and i personally delivered it to a building
called 'the studios', in new york, just off central park west.  a beautiful prewar building with
apartments designed, so i was told, as live in artist studios
they must have all been very successful artists as the whole building was beautiful!

click this one to see two pages from one of my pre digital portfolios
om that top center photo on the left, i am standing in front of a 7 foot high
carved marble fireplace ...

so, last friday, i received this photo in an email ... in the late 90's the original owner
moved to florida and took the cabinet with him ... in 2003, he sold the house with the cabinet included.  the new owners have lived happily with it since but have now recently
moved to VERMONT!  you can't make this up .. they have invited me to visit and i
certainly plan to do so soon ..can't wait to see it actually.

the new owner says that all the original correspondence came with the cabinet, and

surprisingly, i too found the original file and that is where the photos here came from ...

bill for the custom forged hardware

one of my very early employees, jeff

and another, who was still in high school, frank .. jeff was around i

think for about 7 years and frank for 12 years, starting when he was 17.

and here's will (seedersinstruments) standing in front of the unfinished cabinet .
he was 5 then, and i definitely remember the hat!

i've got a few other photos around somewhere ...

a wide board mahogany table

happy may day!
behold a beautiful piece of mahogany ... +/- 42" wide,

1.25" thick, a little less than 10 feet long, on one of our

steel shaker style bases ... it's for a summer boat house at lake george

so it has been in the works for a while .. spring is coming and now it is ready to go ...

cad drawing showing seating for 12

 

the listing from our friends at irion lumber 

there are many more boards similar to this one there. in fact, i have

another one bought and paid for that looking for a new home 

table? desk? headboard? we are using one 31 x 11' currently for a

king size headboard project 

it's in the shop now ... more on that later

this is what they look like when they arrive

and after a little sanding, they look like this .. i kind of liked the bandsaw mark ghosts,

but i got voted down in favor of a little more formality

water jet cut and bronze powdercoated 'shaker' base, ready to install

more on the bed soon ...