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Readers Gallery
From Fine Woodworking Issue #183
Dan Klein
Most beds are designed for a good night's sleep, but Klein's twist on the traditional sleigh bed has a lumbar curve in the headboard to make it more comfortable to sit up while reading. Made of walnut, wenge, and curly maple, with quilted maple veneer, the bed is 67 in. wide by 102 in. long by 50 in. tall and took about 230 hours to build. The finish is water-based stain, garnet shellac, and catalyzed lacquer. Photo: Jeffrey Dodge Rogers
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Brian J. Lewis
Lewis's blanket chest is a reproduction of a black unicorn chest from Bern Township, Berks County, Pa., ca. 1765-1810. Made from boards cut from a 300-year-old eastern white pine tree, the piece is 24 in. deep by 51 in. wide by 28 in. tall and features bracket feet, two drawers, and an interior till with two secret compartments. It is finished with walnut husk stain as a base coat, milk paint (distressed), shellac, and wax; the decorative painting is by Lindsey Keenie and Bess Naylor of the Olde Mill Cabinet Shoppe in York, Pa. Photo: Gordon Wetzel of Impressions Photo
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Jim Syvertsen
Syvertsen's hollow vessel is an homage to the work of David Ellsworth, Kim Blatt, and Cindy Drozda, all of whom have perfected the craft of making hollow turnings. The vessel (6 1/2 in. dia. by 7-1/2 in. tall) is made of briar burl and finished with Waterlox Original Satin. The finial, made of African blackwood, was left unfinished. Syvertsen achieved the elegant low luster simply by burnishing the finial on the lathe using ultrafine sandpaper (up to 1,200 grit).
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Connie Hutchins
The S-curves in the tops of Hutchins’s benches and table are based on the switchback in a mountain trail. The motif is echoed in the stretchers of the benches and, surprisingly, in the shape of the through-tenons. The stretchers were bent-laminated in a vacuum press. Hutchins cut the curved mortises using a pattern, drill, and router; she trimmed the tenons on the tablesaw and then hand-carved them to fit the mortises. The table is 34-1/4 in. wide by 72 in. long by 29-1/4 in. tall; the benches are 14-1/2 in. wide by 72 in. long by 16-1/2 in. tall. Each piece has a walnut base with a cherry top; the wedges in the tenons are ebony. The finish is wipe-on polyurethane. |
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