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Readers Gallery
From Fine Woodworking Issue #155
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Laurie A. Hatfield
Hatfield designed and built this Arts and Crafts bookcase (14 in. deep by 49 in. wide by 59 in. tall) for a course she took at Palomar College in San Diego, Calif. Made of Honduras mahogany, the piece features through-tenons and glass doors. The bookcase is finished with three coats of hand-rubbed oil.
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Jamie Buxton
Buxton, a computer engineer turned full-time furniture maker and FWW author, was inspired to build this tripod dining chair (20 in. deep by 17 in. wide by 41 in. tall) after an evening spent teetering back and forth on a conventional chair. The chair, made of jarrah, has two interesting construction details: The back is a tapered bent lamination, and there is a three-way finger joint connecting the structural members under the seat. It is finished with one coat of boiled linseed oil and several coats of wipe-on varnish. Photo by Richard Reader
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Roger Alan Skipper
Skipper, an instrument maker and FWW author, made this mandolin (3 in. deep by 10 in. wide by 27 in. long) after seeing one made by Norman Adams, a luthier and woodworker from Gassaway, W. Va. Made of spruce, maple and ebony, the fingerboard and turned head are inlaid with gold mother-of-pearl and red and paua abalone. The furnishings -- tuning keys, tailpiece and thumbscrews on the bridge -- are gold. The mandolin is finished with nitrocellulose lacquer.
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Richard Thorpe
While sketching different tribal tattoo designs, Thorpe concluded that some of the sketched angles would be great to apply to a new table-leg form he was working on. This side table (15 in. deep by 15 in. wide by 21 in. tall) is made of walnut and red oak and is finished with oil and wax. Photo by Mark Davis
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