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 ...

slide shows june 15th 2021

here is a link to the updated slide show page on my blog

that link will take you to a page on my blog where there 

are 18 separate slide shows, some with over a hundred photos in them, 

 

that you can click throughto see work completed from 2009 to 2017 

 

as well as images from mypre blog portfolios. ... maybe 50 live edge tables,

 

 our cnc work, etc. ...  ... if when you click on an individual image

to enlarge it, it seems small, try hitting control plus until the image

seems the right size.  the images should stay that size as you click through them.

 

i lost access to these slide shows when google discontinued picasa in 2018,

but thanks to my computer guru, dean darling, they are now back in action ...

some of the slideshows, like the dining tables, have non working links in the 

lower left corner relating to a blog post about that particular table 

the links don't actually work, they tell you the date of the blog post 

or what to enter in the search box, which is on the home page of the blog

 

ENJOY!  lots to see here ...

 

181 photos in this one

67 photos

192 photos

204 pictures

192 photos

160 photos

wow! 292 photos in this one

248 items

209 photos here

130

132 photos

246 pictures

129 items

181
 

85 photos ... i've got another 50 or so to add, plus i need to make slideshows 

for 2018,19, and 20, and go back and visit 2007 and 2008 .... 

it's kind of hard to believe we did all this stuff ... 

a reclaimed chestnut and steel dining table

we finished this one a while back, but we are going to use the base design
in a couple of new projects coming up soon ... 

the table base is essentially 2.5" square tubing, with welded caps on the bottom to
accept small adjustable levelers .. the original design was wood, but
the clients for the matched tables above wanted to incorporate some of sam's steel work.

cad drawing for the chestnut table .. very straightforward ...

base alone .. tubing plus angle iron

we'll be making a curly maple table about 34 x 78, and probably at the same time,
 a base for this new mahogany plank that arrived recently from
our friends at irion lumber 
  ... +/- 42 x 120 .. and available .. will cut to suit

nice one!

beginning of the smoothing process .. looks kind of cool like this, actually

happy new year ... again ...

new year's day .. a time of reflection and optimism .. today's sunset above augurs well for 2015.  red sky at night; sailor's delight .... isn't that the saying?  2014 was an interesting and challenging year .. a little above average, actually.  some jobs just flowed; some jobs were like pulling teeth .. some had easy deadlines, and some, like the last three weeks of them, were rapid fire, one after another rush, rush, rush.  it's also possible that in reality, my management skills may be fading as i enter my 36th year of this grand production.  all's well that ends well though, and it's onward to 2015.  while i've been working on this slide show of the highlights of 2014 for a couple of weeks, i just finished it today, in time for the new year.

here's the link to it 
click an image there and arrow through it.. while you are there,
you can also access more albums from other years, like the ones below
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
live edge tables
furniture from reclaimed lumber
sam's metal work
a hundred or more dining tables
digitized sketchbooks
stuff you can do with a cnc router
happy new year to you all, and all the best for 2015.

furniture from reclaimed lumber

we've been making furniture from reclaimed lumber for many years now.  i am in the process of collecting the photos of this furniture in one place and have created this slideshow where you can see some of them.

here are just a few of my favorites ...

the 'bridges' bench   .. made for the 2010 bennington museum show 'state of craft: fifty years of crafts in vermont'.  the theme of the show was 'continuity' and this piece involved 4 members of our family.

one of our early chestnut projects ... it was a project for a friend, and it involved this table, 

a gateleg pull up extension table, and 8 chairs

i put my feet up on this one every day.  it was an early collaboration involving me and kit, and our metal working son sam

part of our series 'empire deluxe' ... reclaimed chestnut and vermont marble

and who doesn't love a nice post and beam custom pool table

and about 50 more photos and blog links here