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Shaker child's chair, cherry
Made for our granddaughter's second birthday, the seat height is nine inches, the rear leg height is 19 inches. To darken the cherry, the assembled frame was exposed to direct sunlight for several...
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Shaker Candle Stand
Cherry Shaker Candle Stand with the "spider leg" design. The leg design is "elegantly simple." My favorite.
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Shaker style hutch
3 commentsBuilt for my son Alden and his wife Katie for Christmas 08, it was designed to fit a specific space in their house. Not literally Shaker but uses several Shaker design elements. Made of milkpainted...
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Shaker candlestand
There have been many variations on this basic theme, some more harmonious than others. For mine, I referenced the one from Hancock Shaker Village that appeared in the 1986 Whitney exhibition in New...
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Shaker Candle Stand - spalted cherry
2 commentsThis is a slightly modified shaker candle stand, after the Hancock pattern, made of spalted cherry with an oil and shellac finish. The wood, from a tree in El Dorado County, CA, had been down...
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My first ever woodworking project
3 commentsI walked into an Adult Ed woodworking class with these plans (from Thos Moser). The instructor asked if I had ever done any woodworking. "No" I answered. He gave me an appraising look and said...
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Shaker Rocking Chair
1 commentThis Shaker Rocker is made of maple with three coats of amber shellac. The seat is 20" wide at the front and 14" wide at the back. The herringbone design is navy blue and whitenbspThe...
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HOW TO ENTER
The contest is over.
Congratulations to Chuck Griffith, the winner of our Shaker gallery challenge.
