A Record Month ...

well, ok ... i mentioned my blog was getting close to 3,000,000 page 

views a couple of weeks ago, and when i checked recently, we

are now over the line 

 we hit 2,000,000 back in 2017

that post mentions that we have a lot of photos

on the internet too, like 10,000 plus in 2017! 

while i am now officially 'retired' i am still kicking around

the shop, taking car of some long ignored loose ends. 

it ain't too bad ...

who are all these people  ? ? ?

101,504 page views last month !!! 

 it looks like we could hit 3,000,000 page views in May sometime. 

quite a surprise to me, though there is a lot to see here, and i do

enjoy sharing information on how custom furniture making

works, (or should i say worked) for me for about 45 years ....  

it has been a great ride ! 

a little history at this link ... 

 

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, book matched elm slab table

                                         our client purchased these bookmatched english elm

slabs from Berkshire Products in sheffield massachusetts

the table went to williamstown, mass, and now has a nice view

of mount greylock !

pretty nice pair

 

 The steel base pieces are factory made and the client purchased them from a store in Pittsfield.  

we picked them up on our way home from picking up the slabs

beautiful grain ... 

there were two small bark inclusions that we filled with clear epoxe

with approximate dimensions

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great wood, great house, great location!

to see more live edges pieces that we have 

made over the last 30 years

try this link

christmas eve, again

it's that time again ... christmas eve ... it kind of snuck up on me

this year, so i am going with some regular, older photographs ...  

 

my best wishes and thank yous to my friends, readers, and clients who

make what i do seem enjoyable and semm to be worth doing .. 

all the best for 2022 ... 

stay safe. be well. have fun!

is it october already?

 well, here we are.  it's fall, and i see i haven't written anything since

the middle of the summer ... it might have something to do with the weather 

and my golf and paddle tennis schedule .. lots of both, 

but still Kristian and i are still getting lots of stuff out the door ... 

below is a quick review of the last couple months ...

shortly after we completed the live edge table in the previous post,

the clients came with another slab from berkshire products, and another idea

the slab itself had some unusual bug damaged sections that the clients liked

that we decide to incorporate into the base for the breakfast table

a bit of a challenge, but successful we thought in the end

 

and, next up, a 60" round cherry table with three 15" leaves

a little flare on the inlay from the sunlight coming in the door

we have made this design many times in the past, but this is 

the first time we made it with a moveable base as the table opens

in some ways simpler, and more stable

a little 'burl and bars' edge inlay to dress it up a bit

coincidentally, this remodel was to a house that we made furniture for

when this dining room was added on about 20 years ago ... those clients have 

taken their furniture, and moved 'downtown' to the center of dorset ...

next we squeezed in some smaller things ... 

a couple of bedside tables ...

cherry and curly maple, part of a series of smaller tables shown on our website

upper left corner there

and then a reclaimed chestnut 'kitchen desk'

legs and color to match a dining table that we made in 2007

 in the adjacent room 

and below is one we finished last week 

a spalted maple breakfast table, that at one time was a coffee table 

that we made for a show and had managed to return to my office

where this client spotted it and had us make it into table for

a banquet in his new florida home.

solid 1" steel wishbone base waterjetted by mainly metals in bristol, vermont 

and sanded and drilled, tapped and polished by kritsian

 

and finally, this base for a super bronze eagle sculpture by 

walt matia, of curlew castings in maryland ... walt is sort of

world famous sculptor who has been a friend and fellow artist

since the early 80's

a couple of challenges:

* it had to be rugged as the sculpture weighs 150-200 pounds

* the inside had to accessible to bolt it to the floor on site and to bolt the sculpture to the base

* it had to be dark and 'not too shiny'

 

the sculpture this base will hold will a 'cut down' edition of this one

a photo shopped 'installation

if you've been to houston, you may have seen some of his bulls at the stadium there

 

i am sure i have missed a couple of other projects, but it is sunday

and time to go do some pottery ...