lots going on so far this year ..  we've got four projects wrapping up now. one of them left for California yesterday and the  live edge table left yesterday morning. one of our classic mid century modern tables ... more of them here   the cad drawing   before the finish ... finished photo coming soon ...     next up, a claro slab table with one of our classic steel bases the bases are 1.5" thick steel, cut on a waterjet ...    the bottom needed some work and some steel reinforcement. and the base pieces were ground, polished and patinated  ..read more

so, 2024 is here!  time to reflect  a little.   except for a few health issues like a burst appendix for Sam, who was out for 9 weeks, and a broken collar bone for Luke, it was a pretty good year !   my carpentry job ended december 31st 1979, and as of today, i am starting my 45th year of custom furniture making.  i delivered my second piece of commissioned custom  furniture,  a 'shaker style' desk in november of 1979 ... native white pine with yellow milk paint with a leather insert on the fall flap, and two small drawers and, in november we celebrated o ..read more

 i hope you all had a good turkey day!  it is now black friday so i have a few things to post here, some pristine, some 'lightly used' and with negotiable price tags ... this one just in the door on monday this week ... this is a claro walnut slab desk i made for a show a few years back ... it didn't sell and went to the local arts center where they used it as a reception desk, with a price tag .. no luck there, and next it went to a local art gallery, also with a price tag, but no luck there either .. the 40 or 50% commission for the galleries  i think just made it too tough a ..read more

this is another edition of our tables with self storing leaves  we have made a few different styles using this concept. above it is upside down with the runner guides shown  and with the leaves stored under the top        all in, ready to go ...right side up with the leaves in it is now in stowe, vt with the walnut desk in the previous post the cad drawing in the shop with the leaves opened there is another way to store the leaves that you can see in a fine woodworking article by tage frid  it is a simpler mechanism, but it depends on the top ..read more

   we started with this slab from good hope hardwoods that the designer selected from their website. here's the cad drawing we went back and forth on the finish for a bit, but settled on  a couple of coats of waterlox, which gave a nice matte finish. the finished desk below all in, all done .. i think it was installed by the designer yesterday ..read more

 sam came back from a jobsite yesterday with some pictures  of  two coffee tables we made last year, but never photographed  on site because the house wasn't finished when we delivered them, two big ones! this one is claro walnut, about 4 and a half feet wide and 6' long ... in the background there is a set of stairs that sam made the steel parts for .. there is a two story piece of glass behind them ... this one is about the same size with a tricky 'waterfall' end that  kristian executed flawlessly  .. as i remember,  the miter cut was over 60" wide ... so ..read more

    we got a request recently from a client that i made a cabinet for 'a million years ago'  actually, it was sometime in the 90s ...  natural cherry,milk paint and ebony details ... the client has moved to a new, smaller space and wanted  a smaller version of the table in the top photo, which is actually our personal dining table ... we made this table for a show in 1987, it didn't sell, and  we moved it into our dining room, replacing a pine table that i had actually built in the 70s,  one of my first pieces of furniture back when i was still a carpe ..read more

 and it is living down town now! views of lots of building and some water ... night view view of the river  day view and the crow that started it all ... great clients! great fun! good job Kristian ..read more

  well, here we are, trying to figure out if we know what we are doing ... we have the information below ...  click the pictures to enlarge them ...  all we had to do is make some sense of it so that the rise  starts at the desired final grade, the three rises are equal, and the last step into the house is the same rise as some steps that are already finalized about 30 feet to the left of these ... the existing entryway slab slopes 2" from the door out  which was another complicating computation ... you may recognize the ceiling from this blog post  back in fe ..read more

 well, blast from the past ... i used to have a link to this video on the home page of my blog but for the last few years it has linked to a 'page not found' ... miraculously, it has somehow been restored though i have no idea how. there it is, under the blog archive that, surprisingly- starts in 2007 up to almost a thousand posts now and over 2,000,000 page views ... check it out! use the link above as it will allow you to go to full screen 2010, it was a while ago ..read more