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Shaker Inspired Table: Walnut and Ash Burl Veneer
This is another variation of a table inspired by my father. Featuring walnut tapered legs and aprons connected by mortise and tenon joints. Ash Burl Veneer Top is framed with walnutFinish...
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Beetlejuice
This hollow form vase was turned from end grain, fiddleback ambrosia maple. It measures 9.5" tall by 4.5" wide and is finished with Waterlox.
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Pie Crust tea table for daughters
This is a pie crust tea table I made as a Christmas present for my two daughters. They liked having tea parties so I thought they should have a table for it. It is made from walnut with a shellac...
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Wine cork and oak beverage coasters
The coasters are made from used wine corks and framed in stained and varnished hardwoods. Matching carriers are lined with ground cork matting and can also serve as coasters. This example...
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Christmas tree ornaments
Chip carved ornaments in basswood with polyurethane finish. Inspiration from Wayne Barton.
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Open Segmented Walnut-Oak Bowl
This "Open Segmented Walnut-Oak Bowl" was made following glue-up using a router and sanders. The bowl has 12-segments, it is 10" in diameter, 3.5" deep and required approximately 10-to-12 hours to...
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American Girl Doll Bed
This bed is 10" wide by 22 1/2" long, and is made of walnut with a baltic plywood floor, for strength. It is finished with four coats: equal parts spar varnish, boiled linseed oil and...
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Miss Kitty's Antique Heart Pine Hunt Board
This item was built for a friend of ours that loves Early American furniture . It is made of antique heart pine that was reclaimed from one of the old cotton mill and the floor boards from a share...
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2008 Christmas Gifts
I made 24 of these small desk clocks for Christmas gifts. Most are for my husbands employees, but a few went to family and friends. The clocks were my own design, made from maple. The majority of...
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Bubinga Humidor
3 commentsThis humidor didn't make it out of my workshop as promtly as Santa Claus would have done. It's made from a single stick of bubinga, with maple splines and feet. The finish is a few coats...
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Childs Step Stool
1 commentI made this step stool for my grand children. They will use it to reach the sink when washing their hands and brushing their teeth. I used Poplar and used biscuits/glue for...
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Wonders of Wood
All pieces are one of a kind & will never be made again. They are always built to furniture grade, which means they are meant to be used rather than just looked at, though looking at them is...
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Cherry Frame Mirror
This was my first piece I designed and built myself. I wanted to design something that was unique (instead of always working from someone else's plans) and challenged my woodworking techniques and...
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Granddaughters Crib
4 commentsSleigh Crib is made out of walnut and rift walnut veneers. The rosette carvings were a purchased item. The finish is dye stains and laquer.
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DIAPER CABINET
I made this cabinet for a nephew and his wife. She found a picture in a magazine and asked if I could make one like it. I tried and she seemed to be please with the cabinet whic I...
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Small Sake box
2 commentsI made this box as a gift for my mother. It will be used to package a Sake set, but after that she can use it for whatever she likes. Lacewood sides, birds eye maple for the top (and keys...
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Shaker Silver Trays
1 commentThese two trays were built with resawn cherry to produce book matched pairs of sides and ends. They were hand planed and lightly sanded. Two coats of an oil/varnish blend completed the...
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Mobius Heart
The heart is a mobius strip. A mobius strip has one side and one edge. The heart was made by drilling holes on each side of a block of mahogany. The bottom of the holes defined the edge on the...
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"ANTIQUE" 48" x 50" COUNTRY COFFEE TABLE
My desire to work with antique wood combined with a greater desire to replace a huge formica coffee table gave me the idea for a perfect Christmas present for my wife.
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Gifts or the Grandkids
I went to a wood show a couple of months ago and was intrigued by one of the vendors making bandsaw boxes. I retired to my 12 X 20 wood shed and tried to make bandsaw jewelry boxes fornbspour...
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Congratulations to our two winners!
Congratulations to our two winners Keith Burns from Collierville, TN for his
Segmented Leopardwood Hollow Form and Jordan Durbin from Arcade, NY for his Double Highchair
