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Ginkgo Chairs, Kotatsu Table, and Shodo Shelf
1 commentThese pieces were created mainly with hand tools. The finish includes sumi ink, oil pastel (red portions), gold leaf, and amber shellac. The inspiration comes from Japanese cultural concepts such as...
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The Four Year Project
155 gal. bow front salt water aquarium stand This project took forever to build. It all started when a neighbor asked me to install a bay window for them. He had his own aquarium business, like that...
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My modification of a Fine Woodworking Windsor Rocking Chair Plan called "Plans Change"
2 commentsI bought a Fine Wood Working Windsor rocking Chair Plan a few months ago online. I altered the plan to make it recognozeable but non functional for fun. It is made from White Oak, Walnut...
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My students works
3 commentsHello everyone; I've been absent from these pages for a while as I've been shepherding my students here and I feel like a proud father. I'm showing off a selection of their work all designed and...
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Carved wooden bench
2 commentsThis is my latest project. The bench is made from Yakault and Ipil. Both timbers are recycled from old buildings. The seats and backs are carved from 55 mm thick stock. The arm rest...
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Rohlfs Inspired Desk Chair 3
1 commentRohlfs inspired desk chair #3. 50 ½ inches high, 15 ½ inches wide and 16 inches deep. I made this chair for my nephew who is has just moved into his first homenbsp...
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A tale of two chairs
1 commentThis is a story of how one design leads to another, and then another. It started with a cylinder cut in half and with the addition of a seat and the back, I sprayed it black to make sure I liked it...
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Inspiration 1.0 - Custom rocking chair
1 commentInspiration 1.0 – Walnut and Curly Walnut custom rocking chair This sculpted custom rocking chair is built from 2’’ Canadian Black Walnut and special piece of Curly Walnut. This is...
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England's, Queen Victorian Style, King Bed
4 commentsMy brother, Dan Zongker, met with the customer and designed three pieces of furniture for their bedroom, a bed, dresser, and nightstand. The customer was looking for somethingnbsptraditional...
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Chippendale Arm Chair in cherry
5 commentsI took two pictures of my favorite chairs from a Millers Antique Guide. One for the splat and the other for the leg and shell carvings. The dimensions are taken from an old rocking chair very...
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"Ironwood" ,the motorcycle
1 commentThis is a 1200 Harley Davidson "Sportster" based motorcycle. It has won several awards from Daytona to Miami and apeared on "American Thunder" when it was first shown at Daytona. There...
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Acanthus Leaf Theme, Dinning Table & Chairs
2 commentsThis old world dinning table and chairs, I made five years ago for a customer in 2004. The top's marquetry has eight french acanthus leafs around the top. And a center acanthus flower in bloom in the...
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Chess Table, Chairs & Chess Pieces
10 commentsThis is the first of three sets that I made. I made this set ten years ago. The other two I made seven years ago. All three sets are made out of American Black Walnut, & Hard...
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Shadows of Night
6 commentsEbonized white oak legs, bent laminated holly sides, walnut top and bottom (sapwood retained), maple back and carved poplar doors.
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The Pennsylvania Rocking Chair
A unique design employing bent lamination backbraces and rockers, floating backbraces that bend and turn to conform to the sitters shape and a coopered headreat which lets the grain flow in only one...
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Sleigh bed
Black walnut king size sleigh bed with hand carved beeding. Curved laminated head board with walnut crotch veneer. A traditional style with a few adaptations (kennedy sleigh footboard) for the...
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Various projects
2 commentsThese are just afew of my pieces I have designed and built over the past year. I enjoy mixing the wood, fabrics, leathers and glass to create a custom piece.
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Oak dresser and mirrot
1 commentThis oak dresser is 60x19x35, alldrawers are matched from single boards, the mirror has mahogany inlay and is in the laminated uppers sections. the center mirror has a carved mahogany...
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