Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

...bed assembled and rails attached...


Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

..hand planing the final details..

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

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

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Gagne Mahogany Table

..raw mahogany
.....and the color work
...and sprayed!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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

Tiffany Sleighbed

.....carving the bedposts...

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

...cutting curved panel to final dimension..

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

...scribing in the curved panel...

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

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Tiffany Seighbed

...laying out a somewhat difficult tenon!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

..scribe in my shoulder....

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

Monday, November 28, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed


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

Friday, November 25, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

....super wide veneer..nice!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

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

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

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

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

Friday, November 18, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

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

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

Lots...

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

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Tiffany Sleighbed

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

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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...

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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...
 


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Bonney Chairs

LOTS of bending forms for these chairs!!

Friday, January 14, 2011

Bonney Chairs


hand carving the chamfer detail on front rail..

ready for glue up.......

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Tiffany Armoire

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

Monday, January 10, 2011

Bonney Chairs

hand planed front legs..






 


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

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Bonney Chairs

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


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