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Jumat, 03 Februari 2017

another post and beam pool table

this is what a set of pool table supplies looks like when it arrives here at our shop ... well, its actually not alchoices quite this beat up, but we have had a couple sets of slate arrive in more than one piece ... better luck this time. no lost pieces; no broken slate. click the photos to enlarge them, though youll have to bear with me as i learn adobe lightroom. my ancient photoshop 7 program stopped working with the last windows upgrade .. i am NOT happy about that. image/adjust/autolevels .. i am really missing that one.

roughed out rails and cushion wood and cushions above

miracle of miracles .. it is to be exactly like the one above that we made and

installed about this time last year.

were even using the same drawing, materials, and cutlist.

here we go .. the new guy chris, finished the slate support frame last thursday ..

and here he is beginning the assembly of the base

all together last friday ..

and today we added the slate frame and the slates below

as of the end of the day today, we had the rubber cushions glued on to the poplar, and

tomorrow well get them bolted to the slate and add the curly maple rails ...

i love a pool table project ..

and just sos you know were not loafing, weve got some other stuff going on in the shop too ..

a 12 cherry chest of drawers above, with bookcases and ebony and quartered cherry details

and this 9 curly maple trestle dining table with an inlay. trevors got that one in the finish room now.

more on those projects later ..
for more pool table posts, click on this link

Senin, 16 Januari 2017

a post and beam pool table

11/19/2012 ... will is coming along now on the next pool table, our third this year. so far, except for a little input from me on sorting and selecting the wood, hes pretty much done the whole thing himself. this afternoon, after finishing the blinds, he started taking it apart to begin the finishing process. click the photos to enlarge them.

this new table is roughly based on this one from about 2005 ... website link here

and this one from 2009 ... blog post link to that table here
we started the process with a pile of kiln dried, reclaimed hemlock timbers from our friend jef harris at vintage log and lumber in alderson, west virginia. weve been buying timbers and planks from jef for, i dont know, 6 or 7 years now? he usually has what we need at a fair price, kiln dried and hardware free. weve bought mostly chestnut, but also some reclaimed oak and miscellaneous other stuff, like this hemlock.

reclaimed lumber alchoices has its particular challenges, but this batch gave us what we needed without much of a fight.

we emailed jef our cad drawing and cut list, and he got the wood together and sent it on a truck, right to our door.

after two sets of broken slate for the previous table, we went with a new suppler, kurt schmidt, of a. e. schmidt company in st. louis, a long time manufacturer and supplier of quality pool room products.

here will secures the steel that holds the legs and rails together and assures that any seasonal shrinkage in the lumber takes place below the leveled surface of the slate support.

when the rough frame is assembled, the slate support frame is screwed to the base and the slate added to mark out the pocket cuts on the slate support.

about this time, we finalized the finish treatment with the client, and confirmed that the sights (decorative and functional inlays in the rails that divide the playing surface into 4 and 8 parts) would be green abalone diamonds. in this case, the table is a standard 8 footer and the playing surface is 44 x 88, making the sights 11" on center from the centers of the long and short sides. the clients house is a new post and beam structure, so he chose the lighter of the finishes on the left.

will cut the diamond shaped green abalone inlays on the cnc. they are available commercially, but usually only in laminated abalone, so we prefer to cut our own from hand selected, solid green abalone blanks from stewart-macdonald, a luthier supply house.

the rubber cushions are glued to the poplar subrails, and the rails themselves, in this case, natural cherry, are then ready to cut to length and drilled for the pocket ears.

we covered drilling for the pockets in several of our other pool table posts, including the most recent one here. will is coming down the home stretch now. the first coat of finish is on the bottoms of the cherry rails, and tomorrow he will take the table completely apart and sand and finish the rough beams ... felt the rails and rack em up ... more later ...
other pool table posts are here ...
august, 2012
november, 2012
december, 2008
pool tables and card tables on our website
12/6/2012 ... ready to go ... well be installing this one in stowe, vt next week ... onsite pictures then ...

natural cherry rails with green abalone sights (diamonds)

camel simonis felt ...

Sabtu, 18 Juni 2016

back to work

well ok .. its the new year, and were back at work, and from the looks of it here, were pretty busy. luckily, the last few days things have kind of come into focus and under control ... a little new year miracle, compared to the last couple weeks of 2013. click the photos to enlarge them.

trevor seems to have the 12 cherry cabinet details mostly complete, and well be doing some preinstallation recon work on site tomorrow or friday. its alchoices nice to check the floors for level and the walls for plumb when you are installing a major piece in an older house. well, first we have to finish the piece, but as soon as everything else here leaves, well be on that ...
it should be ready for finish after tomorrow. next week after the other stuff leaves

the pool table is finished now that will has felted the rails below .. the felt is simonis, dark green and i believe its the first time we have used that color .. like it.

and for above the table ..

were working on this light, assisted by authentic designs, up the road in rupert ..

its nina mooney, the designers concept, and i think its going to be cool ...

we had to do some creative cutting, drilling, tapping, and epoxy work, but i think weve got it.

photoshopped concept by nina here

and in the pool table photo above, you can see the model for the table in the drawing below. it will be made from recycled chestnut and we should be starting the joinery tomorrow sometime.

and the benches below go with 8, 30 x 36" quartered oak table tops we finished on monday.

the commercial pedestals are on site, and hopefully well install them next week with the

pool table, the benches, and the dining table below.

were using a fine (new to us) polyurethane varnish. its by a company called lenmar, which has been recently purchased by benjamin moore. we used a coat of gloss as a base and applied two coats of satin on top with a 3" foam brush. flowed out like it was sprayed. im going to go out on limb and recommend it ... not something i usually do, but i like it as a finish.

this is another project for the hill farm inn, a rehab of a venerable bed
and breakfast down the road in sunderland.

there was concern that the antlers on the deer from the logo inlay

would disappear if we left them in the burl. sooo.

there was an antler that sam found in the woods rattling around,

and trevor made some antler antlers. fun.

and we moved the mill from the old metal shop

to the new one thanks to the help of our friend malcolm cooper, president and owner of jk adams

and his new company peace street rigging ... any excuse to use one of his tractors.

the mill is happy to be back in a heated space ...

sams busy in the new metal shop .. knocking out a few projects before

starting on a new big one next week

this coffee steel table base going to san francisco

and this one will be a base for a new claro walnut slab table well be building from the slab below.

its going to be a nice one. theres some good figure lurking in there

all for now ..

Sabtu, 23 April 2016

some of our transitional side chairs

weve been making these transitonal, biedermeier inspired, side and arm chairs now for about 15 years, even after making literally, hundreds of them, they are still a challenge, start to finish. curves, compound angles, compound angled leg tops, angled mortises and tenons, you name it. they are, i must admit though, extremely comfortable, and work in both traditional and contemporary settings depending on the wood and finish choices. click the photos to enlarge them.

they look easy, at first glance, when they are finished. theyre not.

these eight bubinga and lacewood chairs will be leaving for england from westport connecticutt december 6th. they will accompany an expanding bubinga pedestal dining table we made about 10 years ago.

12/11/12 .. this just in. a photo of the chairs with the bubinga table we made a while back. the clients are moving themselves and their furniture back to england this week ...

by now, weve got most of the parts that can be cut on the cnc, programmed into the cnc. folks have commented that we would get more legs on the planks if we bandsawed them individually, which we used to do. yeah, it can be done, but i did enough of them to know that after you saw (and sand them for a few hours), getting the mortises in the right places after you cut them isnt worth the savings in wood. woods cheap compared to shop time.

there are a lot of cool visuals as these chairs are in the works

here trevor is cutting them on the cnc, adding the mortises in all the right places as he goes.

and here they are with the cherry tables we finished recently. the tables are made from a pair of 10 foot bookmatched cherry boards and can be assembled into one 10 foot table for large gatherings.

the arm chair version from a previous set

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another post and beam pool table

Senin, 16 Januari 2017

a post and beam pool table

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back to work

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some of our transitional side chairs

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