next !!

october 21 .. good to go ... off to boston tuesday ..

pretty crowded in the finish room .. hard to get a good photo

10/25  on site .. more room for a photo here in its new home

this is an interesting photography technique i've been noticing in more than one high fashion magazine ad .. rather then a tedious and quite time consuming photoshop backround cut, it's a fast, approximate cut that still dramatically isolates the image from what is sometimes a confusing background.

10/13/16

we shipped a 4' x 10' claro walnut slab table and 8 chairs last week, and this one 

will be ready to go by the end of next week ... it is the most popular size requested, +/- 42 wide by +/- 8 ' long.  luckily, our friends at goodhope hardwoods had a great slab on hand ..

 trevor flattened and smoothed it up with the power planer, and routed the bottom for the base.

the top is nearly finished and is just waiting for the base to be patinated
and attached before it gets its final topcoat ..

 the parts are drilled, tapped and assembled, and i hope we can start the patina process by monday ..

 the waterjetted parts.  it takes 'almost all day' to cut just one of the verticals ..

setting up to drill them on the drill press .. we have a system by now ...

updates to follow ...

some claro walnut furniture

we delivered a project we've been working on for a while on thursday .. new house .. looking sharp, and we were glad to participate in furnishing it ..
above, we did the table, chairs and sideboard ...
click the photos to enlarge them ... 

and here we made the coffee table and the two swiveling lounge chairs i wrote about earlier ..

the tables were made from the sister slab of a long dining table we made last year .. like the previous clients, these folks liked the cracks and we left them butterflied on the bottom and sanded, 

but unfilled on the top.  it's a very natural look ...

chris made the sideboard and he did a great job!  we have made other versions of this piece, so while it's a fussy one, we pretty much had it figured out ..

a claro walnut slab table

add another one to the list ... we sent this one to shelter island last week.  and jim, who made the delivery, says that this table has 'the best view of any we've made'.  that's quite a tall statement, but he was there, and i wasn't, so i'll have to take his word for it.  anyway, we started with the slab above, and ended with the table below.

 

with a bit of back and forth in between.

do we cut of the 'swell'?  no .. it's got some really cool grain going on there.

do we fill the cracks?  yes, no, maybe, no ... we used this one as an inspiration.  we made it in 2011 and didn't fill the cracks.  never had a complaint.   i'm glad we left them.  in the end, they were really cool and kind of sculptural..  but how do we stabilize them?  how about some butterflies on the bottom of the table, like below.  that worked ..

below with the legs still in the 'bright polished' phase ..

and now with the bronze patina ...

 the polished cracks ... no crumbs will stick in there .

 and with the reinforcing 1" tubing structure to bolster the thin  slab and give it some rigidity ... that worked great . this, below, from the client

"Hi Dan, We loooooove the table. I will call you  tomorrow. Just got back from beach and am wiped out. Thanks and best regards, Joanne"

all for now ...

hot off the press

 

GOT LUCKY !! it's sold, and leaving for north carolina friday ...

and looking for a home ... it's slightly tapered, 38" at the near end, 35" wide at the far end, +/- 94" long.  natural finish, welded steel base.  1.31" thick top. no live edges, but nice, peaceful grain.  special price ... call or email for details.  click the photos to enlarge them ... 

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