black friday sale!

 i hope you all had a good turkey day!

 it is now black friday so i have a few things to post here,

some pristine, some 'lightly used' and with negotiable price tags ...

this one just in the door on monday this week ...

this is a claro walnut slab desk i made for a show a few years back ...

it didn't sell and went to the local arts center where they used it as a reception desk,

with a price tag .. no luck there, and next it went to a local art gallery, also with a price tag,

but no luck there either .. the 40 or 50% commission for the galleries 

i think just made it too tough a sale.  so, i am currently offering it at a

'negotiable, commission free price'

 which due to its light use and my current reluctance to 

totally refinish the slab top i feel is quite reasonable ..

please call me at 802-379-1478 to discuss this piece.

here are a few more shots ..

it has a nice 24" pencil drawer and a secret compartment ...

a generous +/- 42" x 66" with a steel base by Sam.

available for viewing by appointment at the shop most any time now.

 click the photos to enlarge them

other items like the one below, ready to go at this link

+/- 42 x 42 x 16 high

a live edge walnut desk

  

we started with this slab from good hope hardwoods that

the designer selected from their website.

here's the cad drawing

we went back and forth on the finish for a bit, but settled on 

a couple of coats of waterlox, which gave a nice matte finish.

the finished desk below

all in, all done .. i think it was installed by the designer yesterday

a live edge steel and cherry desk

we made this nice live edge cherry computer desk

for a long time friend of the family ...

 

the steel base spent a little testing time in sam's shop while we

worked on the slab top .. trigger approved it ...

there were two options, live edge up or live edge down ..

glad we ended up with the live edge up ... 

the angled cut is the notch that felled the tree ...

 

cad drawing above

 the design was loosely based on a pair of cherry 

recording studio tables we made for a friend

to see more of the live edge pieces we have made over the years

try this link

maple slab stuff

this project started out as just a table and i first mentioned it in a post back in january

when it was finished and delivered to a 3rd floor penthouse in the south,

i thought it would be good to have all the picturess in one post .. here goes ..

great figure in these maple slabs, and the client requested steel butterflies!

nice touch!

while the varnish was wet ...

simple steel tube base by sam ...

as you can see in the drawing below,  the butterflies we a little more

involved than usual with threaded rods going all the way through the slab

half inch thick, 3/8ths threaded stainless rods

that was the table .. how we got to build the desk was the first slab 

arrived with a pretty good chunk lost on the way .. no one knows

where it went ... but my supplier got a damage credit and i got a 

break on the price, and the client needed a desk ... win, win, win ...

we still got 90 inches out of it and room for two more steel butterflies

great figure in this one too ...

we went back and forth on the layout for the wire management

and the grommet and the drawer ...

all good in the end

i was making a bench for another client, and mentioned it and we added one of those too ...

in place

in transit .. crane to the the third floor

a claro walnut slab desk

we put this one all together for the first time today .. 

set up the cardboard and got lucky with the lighting.  i rarely get it this good.

it's been in the works for a while, and now it could be leaving as soon as tomorrow ..

two drawers, some secret compartments and a beautiful piece of claro walnut.

you can follow the process below.

we started with the claro slab that's been on the wall of the finish room for a while,

waiting for exactly the right client to come along ... in the end we 

angled the end cuts in a bit and skipped the horizontal cuts as unnecessary ..

 next up was a 1/8th scale model

with photos from two different angles

we put the cad drawing on the bottom of the model so we could build it accurately

steel parts were next and a full size layout on the bottom of the slab

and sam was slammed with deadlines in the metal shop, so trevor made 

the steel pieces and sam welded them up ..

all together now

except for the secret compartments, which will remain secret, all for now.

possibly some on site photos after the delivery ...