lots going on ...

 lots going on so far this year .. 

we've got four projects wrapping up now.

one of them left for California yesterday and the 

live edge table left yesterday morning.

one of our classic mid century modern tables ... more of them here

 

the cad drawing

 

before the finish ... finished photo coming soon ...

 

 

next up, a claro slab table with one of our classic steel bases

the bases are 1.5" thick steel, cut on a waterjet ...

  

the bottom needed some work and some steel reinforcement.

and the base pieces were ground, polished and patinated 

with a birchwood casey gun blue/black

 

the top had some cracks and we added some butterflies and epoxy fill ..

the slab on the goodhope website

and today we delivered three more chairs to our long time friends

we made four for them in our two different styles

back in november  ...

 

hats off to kristian here !

 

they are 'thinking about' a new table in the future  

 

and below we are working on a reclaimed chestnut desk

for a long time local client ..

 

there is nothing easy about this one ..

 

 

we are using a 'stain, red paint, black paint finish that we 

often use on our painted windsor chairs

the two board sapele top will be a sanded version of that formula

next up ... a  bed with a live edge headboard ... 

off to visit with the clients tomorrow ... more after that ..  

a photoshopped mockup here

site visit today, drawings tomorrow ...

anniversaries !

so, 2024 is here! 

time to reflect  a little.

 

except for a few health issues like a burst appendix for Sam,

who was out for 9 weeks, and a broken collar bone for Luke,

it was a pretty good year !

 

my carpentry job ended december 31st 1979,

and as of today, i am starting my 45th year of custom furniture making.

 i delivered my second piece of commissioned custom 

furniture,  a 'shaker style' desk in november of 1979 ...

native white pine with yellow milk paint

with a leather insert on the fall flap, and two small drawers

and, in november we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary

1973 above and 1971 below ...

we have been living together for 52 years, but 

we got married in 1973 so the bank would give us a mortgage

 

we built our first house in our 'spare time' in 1974, 

and that was 50 years ago

we first built only the 4 window part on the left in 1974, 

the addition on the right came along in the 80s

 

and in 1997, we built the shop we are working in now 

as a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house, designed in a way that it would

be our shop when we sold our Arlington house.

the move to dorset, gave the boys a choice of two excellent schools.

sam graduated form long trail in 2000, and will chose the target

program at BBA, where he was recently inducted into

the BBA hall of fame for the arts ... so, it was a good move ...

this year will be our 24h year in the 'new' shop

wood shop in the middle, office on the right, and

the building on the left is sam's metal shop which 

we completed 10 years ago at the very end of 2013 ...

and, november marked 16 years of writing this blog ... 

i wrote the first post in october of 2007

 955 posts and as of today 2,174,895 page views ...

a slide show of work from 2023 is here now ... 

i leave you with one further thought

 all the best for 2024 to my clients and readers ...

y'all have a good one ...

dan