update

every once in a while i get a little behind in my blogging and need a 'mega post' to catch up ... i feel one coming on now .... pull up a chair .... bunch of pictures coming up .... we're finishing up the walnut table above this week .... click the photos to enlarge them ...

the mdf pieces ... from a post way back on january 16th ....
we finished and delivered the mdf couches and chairs a couple weeks ago ... they looked and sat great!
the house is almost, but not quite, finished so we left the cushions covered up ...
the chairs, before they left
the gold leaf frame ... from the same post .... totally hard if not impossible with my skills to photograph anything in gold leaf ...
another mdf 'niche market' ... we made 24 of these in 3 different sizes to be painted and sold by vermont pet beds
update on the ash table next ...
it will have the last two coats of finish tomorrow and friday ... there was a delay while we were waiting for confirmation that it would be 'natural' looks great with the steel ...
the 46" round is gone ....
and will is coming along on banjo #4
it's an interesting combination of part fretless at the top end of the fretboard where the iontonation is easier and fretted at the pot ens where precision is more important ...
and, this time, because of the way he's doing the fret board with no binding, he bought a .023 router bit .... yeah that is less than 1/32nd of an inch, and is exactly the size of the 't' on the fret wire ... so, he was able to cut the stopped slots on the cnc and the edges of the fretboard will be very cool ... more on that when the fretting is finished ... he's got his own banjo website up now ...
check it out if you're into banjos ...
and, we started a new bed project .. it will have a pair of slabs hung on the wall for a headboard,the platform attached to that 6" up from the floor, and a box with a drawer on either side at the top of the mattress ... king size .. cool concept ...
this is a photoshopped slab arrangement .. we'll start smoothing and joing them tomorrow ...
more on that later ... and, there's other stuff too, but for now, this is enough for me ...