Dorset Custom Furniture - A Woodworkers Photo Journal: 2025

Saturday, April 12, 2025

in the early stage of my retirement now, one of my projects

has been to organize my 60+ sketchbooks from the past 50 years

so, a little history tour here ...

arranged now chronologically with important client's

names noted on the covers and spines

1999, the year was a good one with many important

clients and interesting projects

i have been reviewing these sketchbooks off and on now for a while

and i have accidentally created more than one album of photos

of some of the sketchbook pages ... here's one album

here's another ... 'some of the best'

there will definitely be some overlap

between the slide shows, but

there are many in each of them that

aren't in the others ..

45 years is a long time!

here's another !

and then there's all the slideshows of

through 2023 ... i need to add one for 2024 ...

sometime ...

last summer, some long time friends closed their store in manchester

after 7 days a week for 38 years, and moved to an online version

at a newly constructed building at their house nearby.

while visiting Grant after some Achilles tendon surgery

he and Betsy mentioned that they felt that their new building was

'a little plain', and asked me 'what do you think?'

i had the same problem with a blank wall at my shop,

and over the years i have added some random elements

to 'spruce it up'

a piece of ash, left over from the curved benches

and a blade from a big crosscut saw ...

that seemed like enough, so i never added the cutter bar

that hung vertically off to the side there ...

i had some cherry on hand from a curved log i had sawed

about 10 or 15 years ago and, while i have some ideas,

i still have six or s even slabs left, plus another similar log.

we then did some noodling ...

and some mock ups

the pointy thing seemed 'not right' and they wanted to use the 'globe'

from the sign on their store ... i added the cutter bar ... BINGO!

i went up Thursday and hung it up

big hit!