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tag: maple

Ginkgo Chairs, Kotatsu Table, and Shodo Shelf

AaronDye, member | April 12th, 20131 comment

These 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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Casket

Troutrx, member | November 11th, 20123 comments

I was asked by a close friend to build him a casket.  He was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and had 2-6 months to live.  I was honored to build it.  As a woodworker, it was a very enjoyable...

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Skeleton Clock of Maple, Ebony, Poplar, and Holly

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Charles MaxwellOn Charles Maxwell’s Cape Cod honeymoon 27 years ago, he and his wife saw a skeleton clock, and he vowed to make her one. In 2007 after retiring from the U.S. Navy...

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Pennsylvania Spice Box

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: James PlatteterThree factors motivated Platteter to build this Pennsylvania spice box: the beauty of the original in The Pennsylvania Spice Box by Lee Ellen Griffith (Chester County...

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Shaker Style Child's Desk

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Kelly J. DuntonDunton, an associate art director at Fine Woodworking and an avid woodworker, was influenced by the Shaker aesthetic for the design of this child's desk, 19-3/4 in. deep by...

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Light and Graceful Comb-Back Windsor Chair

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Bill PerryPerry set out to make a comb-back Windsor chair that was as light and graceful as possible while still maintaining its strength. The chair has a poplar seat, maple legs and...

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Double Oxbow Salem Secretary

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: J. Albert Hudson Hudson was so inspired by the double oxbow Salem secretary in Home Furniture #7 that he vowed to reproduce it. Twelve years later, at the age of 88, he did just that...

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Block-Front Chest

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Roland Benjamin Patterned after the block-front style of chest developed in Newport, R.I., this version was inspired by a photo in Nutting's Furniture Treasury. The original was made in...

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Wave Chest

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: John P. McCormackMcCormack designed this chest to display a sea-form glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. The chest’s rippled surfaces and milk-paint colors play on the ocean theme but...

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Cogswell Bombé Chest Reproduction

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: John P. McCormack McCormack built this piece as a student at the North Bennet Street School. He based it on a John-Cogswell-attributed chest in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston collection...

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Mahogany Bombé Chest of Drawers

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Frank Woolley Woolley estimates he invested more than 1,500 hours making this bombé chest of drawers. About 570 hours went into the actual construction and 180 hours into the finishing...

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Tambour Coffee Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Todd Plummer This innovative coffee table won an Excellence in Design award from Woodcraft Magazine at the 2007 Design in Wood exhibition organized by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers...

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Gardenia Sideboard

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Craig Thibodeau Thibodeau’s sideboard won the Best of Show, awarded by Fine Woodworking magazine for the 2007 Design in Wood exhibition organized by the San Diego Fine Woodworkers...

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Newport-Style Kneehole Desk

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Alan Turner This Newport-style kneehole desk is modeled after an original attributed to Edmund Townsend (circa 1760s) which is in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. As on...

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Decorative Pedestal Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Anthony Hayzen Hayzen's pedestal table serves as a canvas for his decorative veneer work. The six-sided pedestal is made of poplar, while the tabletop and base are made of mediumdensity...

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Honduras Mahogany Sideboard

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Pat Megowan While building this sideboard during a 12-week intensive course at The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine, Megowan grew so frustrated that he twice thought about...

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Comb-back Windsor Chair

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Fred Shindle This comb-back Windsor is based on the speaker's chair built for The Carpenters' Company, a trade guild, and used at the meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774 at...

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Morning Glory Cabinet

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Len Dougherty As a life-long drawer and painter, Len Dougherty has no trouble capturing life-like images in the marquetry on his furniture. "I think an art background really helps with...

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Tall Case Clock

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Tall lcase clock in curly maple by Bill Coyle.

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Apothecary Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Updated version of the Shaker apothecary table in maple, bird’s-eye maple veneer, and poplar. Handmade cocobolo pulls complete the piece. It is finished with shellac and varnish.

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