another steel and walnut pool table

i'm working on a definitive pool table blog post here ..
will finish the words later ...

      

a custom kitchen

well, we've been working on a kitchen for a couple months now ... we are coming down the home stretch now.  it's not been an easy one, but the clients have been great, and it's been a good exercise for the old brain, keeping track of the challenges and details ...

 just waiting for the marble and a few pieces of hardware ..

it was a long road from the drawings at the top to the photos above .. the story is below ..

the 'before' shot ... after the flood, before the rewiring and new sheetrock ..

and the removal of some of the existing structure to increase storage options ..

interesting existing challenges abound ...

for instance, this corner is 1.5" out of square in 44", floors not level; walls are not plumb either ..

leveling up the kicks ..

dealing with the heat and pipes in the corner

 cabinets and temporary counters!! memorial day weekend ..

 waiting for the appliances ..

 interesting big drawers and corner detail ,,,

two fridges and some cabinets here ..

cutting the range hood through two 4x6s was a particularly challenging operation

 lots of climbing around on top of the stove

dealing with the out of square, out of plumb corner

lights on! all set for the 4th of july!

looking like a kitchen ...

making some big doors for the pantry in the shop this past week .. 

hope to get these and the marble counters in place soon .

all for now ..

another round one

here we go again ... time to think up a name for this design ... i think this is the fourth or fifth

version of this design we have done .. in the early stages above, it's a 48" round and will have two 24" leaves.  the halves of the base will move as the top expands ..

the revised cad drawing below

the first one, in the picture at the top, was a 60" round with three 18" leaves

you can see more versions of it in this slide show

" a hundred or so dining tables we have made"

light stain, dark stain, black, natural .. lots of choices ...

trevor, in the earlier stages, working on the base part joinery

gluing up the aprons here, which he angle cuts on the cnc after they set up ..

ready for aprons on the leaves and the angled apron cuts ..

ok .. the aprons are angled and the bottom edge of the top is beveled ..

a little sanding and scraping and we're ready for finish  ..

all done now ..

with the leaves .. alternate base designs below

a visitor from italy

had a visitor from italy yesterday .. actually the visitors were local, but the table has been in their family since it was new in the mid 1800s .

 basically, it just had a little issue with the drawer runners, and they didn't want to touch the finish,

which i was very happy about

 we tuned it up and it is good to go .. click the pictures to enlarge them and check out the fine inlays ..

really nicely done.  i particularly liked the burnt shadings, the 'spectators' around the oval, the ribbon and the tapered leg inlays ..

a classic ... good for another hundred at least ..