Tiffany Sleighbed

...bed assembled and rails attached...

Tiffany Sleighbed

..hand planing the final details..

Tiffany Sleighbed

...some pretty complicated joinery.....but fit like a glove!

Gagne Mahogany Table

..raw mahogany

.....and the color work

...and sprayed!

Tiffany Sleighbed

...hand carved volute detail...fun fun!

Tiffany Sleighbed

.....carving the bedposts...

Tiffany Sleighbed

...cutting curved panel to final dimension..

Tiffany Sleighbed

...scribing in the curved panel...

......CAREFULLY free hand excavating.....the panel mortise....

.....and finally cleaning up with a chisel...

Tiffany Seighbed

...laying out a somewhat difficult tenon!

Tiffany Sleighbed

..scribe in my shoulder....

.....and clean that up to the line...

Tiffany Sleighbed

....this baby is " in the bag" as they say!

Tiffany Sleighbed

....super wide veneer..nice!

Tiffany Sleighbed

....curved panel in the bag...

Tiffany Sleighbed

......a test run with 1/8" baltic birch

.....making the panel core..so far so good!

Tiffany Sleighbed

....the interior " bones" of my bending form...

Tiffany Sleighbed

Lots...

......and lots of shaping....

Tiffany Sleighbed

.....shaping the bed rail...

Bonney Chairs

...the shop is a bubbly cauldron of steam!

curved piece cooling under intense pressure from the metal compression strap. The key to successful steam bending is this critical step...

Bonney Chairs



more like a "mad scientist" lab...the wood goes in the white pvc tube and is heated to 220 degrees for about an hour...this on the coldest day of the year makes for a nice sauna in the shop!!




All of this is required to steam bend the main seat curve...

 


Bonney Chairs

LOTS of bending forms for these chairs!!

Bonney Chairs



hand carving the chamfer detail on front rail..



ready for glue up.......

Tiffany Armoire

Full scale drawings of armoire "upper" illustrate the proportions and details of the piece....

Bonney Chairs

hand planed front legs..




 



Front apron and legs...mortise and tenon joinery complete..

 

Bonney Chairs

...this SUPER heavy 16/4 rough cherry wood...



..turned into all of this!...chairs are lots of parts...