portfolio pictures

 

Labor Day!  a day off 

the blog post below was originally published in 2016.

 i stumbled across it yesterday in one of my 'blog to print' books

and thought it would be interesting to new readers.

the 2016 blog post starts below ...

and in the 'slide show' section on my blog there are even more

early portfolio images. 

 

2016 ... well, ok ... i stumbled across a folder full of pictures this morning and 

i thought they would make a good blog post.  as an example, on the 'page' above, there is a 

10' cherry table, 8 windsors, 4 stools and a nine foot wide by 8 foot high sideboard.  couple of months right there.  also, a pair of maple cabinets with c.r. ashbee inspired  inlays and a 60" round table ...

another couple of months there.

until 2007, when i first started my blog and more or less moved my 'portfolio' online,

i kept photos of my work in these three 20 page, 14" x 17"  binders.  in august of 2014, i intended to migrate these portfolios into my slide show area by taking careful photos of each page but never finished the job or ever finished taking the photos .. looking through them this morning made

me realize i maybe ought to get on it and finish that project ... maybe next week ...

anyway, here they are .. click the photos to enlarge them ... 

honestly, i forgot i made a lot of these pieces ...

 

a desk, a credenza and a coffee table, and the inspiration for the 

c.r. ashbee arts and crafts style pieces pieces

a couple desks, a small dining table, a really funky windsor and some stools ..

a nice game table .. another desk some side tables and a japanese rice paper screen ..

the famous 'snook table' .. 46 x 68 and 

at the beach' a small half round with similar inlays .. i still have that one ..

a coffee table, a cabinet with a curved front, a 54" round cherry table with a lacewood inlay, 

a cherry and lacewood coffee table, a reclaimed chestnut table and a funky sideboard piece.

lots more stuff here

and here .. the bubinga sideboard goes with the 

one board bubinga table on the 'page' below ..

a nice 'studio style' sideboard and an 8' knife display case

some nice doors; an interesting masonic table restoration and a classy 

cherry and figured ash desk with some rosewood inlays

a cherry corner cupboard with curly maple panels and drawer fronts ..

 

skippy, our dog, who left us in 2006 .. a nice cherry and maple dresser ..

another big sideboard, one of a pair, and a nice curly maple dining table

my favorite curly maple sideboard 

and a cool bench and mirror with carvings and appliques ..

a few more 'studio style' pieces

  just found some more ...

my, my, my ... lots of pictures ... the tapered cabinet made the back cover of one of 

the fine woodworking design books ... must have been around 1990

 game tables ..

 wildlife carving on the table legs ...

 early headboard inlays

 ditto ...

 metal chairs .. a black console ...

more game tables

 first cabinet with abalone center right .. 1985??

 'shaker' hutch

 early 80s brochure cover ..

 2nd commisssion .. 1979 .. the yellow shaker desk ..

'japanese style' coffee table .. studio style table and sideboard

glass topped coffee table ...

 'greene and greene' style chairs with handpainted silk seats

the original tansu stairs photos .. before and after .. 1989

a crotch mahogany veneered sideboard .. 

notice the difference a professional photographer can make ..

"it's where we keep the tv to keep it out of sight"

some detail shots ...  the studios .. central park west .. 

the pieces barely fit in the elevator ..

 i used to make a lot of ornamental sash

 the original mother myricks .. 1983, manchester center ... 

Green Mountain Bluegrass Festival

                                  It’s that time again!  Another year, another amazing lineup!

the Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival 

that takes place in Manchester Vermont has completed it's

 8th year and i am surprised i haven't written 

about it before.  it is unfailingly a great event!

i can't say anything more eloquently then Will has 

said it below ...

   John and Jill Turpin who organize the show refer to Will

as 'the mayor' of the festival, i was amused that my 

back stage pass did not have my name attached to it ..

it was another great year!  i wanted to leave you with 

a few videos  but my i phone videos are 

apparentlytoo large for me to post here ...

anyway, if you are in the new england area

try to make it next year ...

Great Music there! 

53 Years Later ... OOPS!

                                 so, it was 1973 ... i was spending my time working for

                                 John Wall who did 'anything for a buck'. Build a house,

build some clay tennis courts, buy and sell railroad ties.

etc., etc., etc., without actually knowing how to do

any of those things partiicularly well.  it was my first carpentry

type job after (almost) giving up my previous gig as a bartender 

at the Roundhouse,and the Sirloin Saloon in Manchester .... 

Kit and I still dabbled in the world of bar tending from time to time then.

            

                                     

John and I were working for the owners of the house across the

 street from this sort of, at the time, sagging building.

the owner said, 'that left corner is sagging, please put a

cable in it to keep it from getting worse. so,

my contractor friend said 'go figure it out'. 

(click this picture to enlarge it)

so i thought i did by running a cable around a rock behind it

to the sagging corner 

with a turnbuckle that i would tighten pretty much religiously 

every month or three for a couple of years.

i eventually lost interest in that project as i moved on to

real carpentry with a real builder, Mark Breen, who was creating 

very nice new houses in the Stratton area,

about 30 of them between 1974 and 1979, 

when time ran out ... 

so a couple of months ago the building collapsed 

but the corner i cabled is still standing ... 

it looks like i should have added a few more cables

to the rest of the place. 

 

hindsight is often 20/20 ... 

  

The Big Move

.

    here we have our long time friend Noel Dydo, in 2005, with  

  our brand new mullticam CNC and another friend's Lull. 

 at the time, Noel was quick to describe that Lull as a 'piece of sh**'.

not comforting at the moment, as the cnc had to go up a couple 

of floors and fit through a hole in the wall 

between two windows ...

click the pictures to enlarge them ... 

   back in the day, that's 'Mr. Lucky' there with the sawzall.

when we put the wall back together after getting the cnc in, 

we realized that someday it would have to come back out so 

we put everything back together with stainless steel screws.

a lucky good decision!

since things don't last forever, we decided that since Kristian 

had a rented 'Skyjack' lift at his house site a mile up the road, now

would be a very good time to make the move to the empty shop and

give will some more room in the upstairs of the main shop.

out it comes!

 after a short trip across the driveway, Kristian maneuvered

it through the doors, onto machine skates and to it's new home ...

all set now ... we are going to hook up the dust collection

today, pipe that up, and we'll be good to go ...

 

the next day, the pieces went back and you'd

 never know anything had happened ...