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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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Chess Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Bert Wortel Turnings, carvings, and inlay adorn this small chess table. Wortel crafted the board with solid wood with squares of holly and Peruvian walnut. He turned and carved...

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Pennsylvania Spice Box with Line-and-Berry Inlay

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Steve Latta Latta built this inlaid spice cabinet to commemorate his 10th wedding anniversary. Since Latta and his wife are Quakers living in Chester County, Pa. he picked a design that...

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Brazilian Rose - Demilune Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Russell Garcia-Lechelt Garcia-Lechelt's demilune table won first place in the Traditional Woodworking furniture category at the 2007 Design in Wood competition organized by the San Diego...

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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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Hepplewhite Sideboard Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Woodworker: Chris Burtis While attending the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Burtis chose to make a project that incorporated techniques he wanted to learn--string inlaying, veneering, banding...

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Center Table

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

This center table took Hieke approximately 350 hours to complete. The piece features hand-cut rose-pattern inlay in birch and holly veneer. Poplar was used for the leaves. The table’s legs are salvaged piano legs from the Steinway factory where Hieke worked for 36 years. No stain was used on the piece, only veneer dipped in hot sand was used to darken the wood.

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Dresser

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Tischler’s dresser features a myriad of design elements - graduated drawers, book-matched drawer fronts, chamfered edges, string inlay, and hand-carved pulls. It uses a variety of woods, such as Brazilian mahogany, Honduras rosewood, Macassar ebony, holly, cedar, maple and poplar. The finish is Waterlox varnish.

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Queen Anne-style Chest-on-Chest

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

This reproduction chest-on-chest is made from Honduras mahogany, maple, and tulip poplar. It features crotch mahogany veneer drawer fronts with holly inlay and a carved phoenix on its peak. It is finished with French-polished shellac.

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Dressing Glass

FWW_Gallery, member | October 24th, 2012

Reproduction of an 18th-century American dressing glass. Made with basswood, satinwood, poplar, walnut, ebony, and finished with French polish.

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Mahogany Spice Box with String and Berry Inlay

Sanjeev, member | March 15th, 20096 comments

I wanted to do a project to practice hand-cut dovetails. When I saw Steve Latta's spicebox (FWW #196) it looked like an ideal project with more than 100 dovetails. I enhanced the design with...

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