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well .. what can i say? its nuts here. almost out of control ... but things are getting done. two coffee tables left for new york city monday, and arrived yesterday. the bookmatched cherry plank and steel table above, and the large (54 x 84) steel frame below.

this one looks right at home

and this is a big one .. probably just under 300 pounds. the stone (another +/- 500 pounds), will be cut and fitted in new york ...

specifications included : " must support dancers" .. sounds like fun.

it had a nice dark bronze patina and some decorative screw details in the top frame ..

and weve got a pair of stools waiting for the final stain color approval. theyll be upholstered by the designers workroom in massachusetts .. tougher than they look ...

and were coming down the home stretch on the kitchen project. its starting to look like the model. were awaiting appliances and counter tops, which should be arriving sometime in the next few weeks.

and there are other parts to that project too, like the +/- 8 x 8 painted vanity below. we turned it over to the painters on site and will be reassembling it as it appears in the shop, as the counter tops and stone backsplashes arrive.

there will be a mirror and some sconces in the big open space. the horizontal shelf over the sink area is just for our convenience as we built it.

and upstairs, theres a quartered oak vanity/shelf unit .. steel pipe supports on the end later.

and downstairs, a barnboard vanity for the half bath.

the curved moldings in barn board are gonna be a trick .. working on that tomorrow.

coming up, some living room shelves involving a barn beam from the renovation and a bunch of 3" thick torsion box shelves ... should be interesting.

and a baby gate !! i havent made one for about 30 years now ...

and i never made one that wasnt a piece of painted plywood with a poster on it ... this one is gonna look official!

and will, for the time being at least, has officially moved on to full time custom banjos and stringed instrument repairs. hes been at it for a while now, and while i miss his input and production in the shop, im wishing him the very best of luck following his heart. why wait .. start now. see where it goes.

and sams busy ... along with the railings he finished recently, above and below, he is coming down the home stretch on a major project at the local church downtown. more on that later ...

jig for building the railings

3 floors on this project ... fussy figuring ...

and the metal shop doors and stairs are here, as is the slate,, below ...more progress soon.

and our friend rachel turned 70 last week. big party last sunday. people we havent seen in a long time. we made her one of our garolite and zebra wood life event coasters. kit said i should have made a dozen of them . were gettin up there.

all for now

Sabtu, 22 Oktober 2016

we have a roof

we have a roof ... thanks to our friends matt conrad, jesse loomis and nat hill, we have a roof .. well, weve got to thank george dunnett, of vermont fancy hardwoods, too for delivering the 15 squares of nice purple slate. click the photos to enlarge them.

and, inside, we have some of our wires, and and were hoping to get more, and a plumber before we can insulate and get the inside show on the road .. sam and i still have some work to do around the doors and windows, but were hoping to get to a little of that over the weekend.

and a little siding too !

Senin, 25 April 2016

Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you Mister Jones

youll note that in the last three weeks, i have written exactly ONE blog post, and that one i had been writing as we worked along on the project ... a record of blog inattention, even compared to my bloggavacation i took a year or so ago ... mr. dylan asks: what is going on here? i dont know, but, well, let me tell you, its all good. as you can see from the list above, we have (now) 12 committed projects, (13; one just came in by email) including two 54 x 85 x 26" deep recycled chestnut cabinets, a ten foot table, a 17 table, another dining table, six chairs and a coffee table ... lots of stuff. but, on the right, youll notice in the in process column 21 other proposals were working on, most of which, as of right now, are out in the ether, awaiting replies or commitments. the photo below was taken around 11:00 this morning, just before i started scanning and emailing ... just finished it all up a minute ago ... im going to write this and then go have a couple of tall cold ones ... click the photos to enlarge them ...

a few new models ... a 30 x 60 dining table with a steel base; a 60" dining table with two leaves and a stainless base; and a little mockup for a 98" table with a rebar and steel base ... with that project there is also a 42" x 17 table ....

an assortment of proposals, ready to go ...

next up, the two recycled chestnut cabinets mocked up with photoshop

along with those cabinets goes this 48 x 72" recycled chestnut pedestal dining table we finished last week ...

with 3 15" leaves ... better top color in this photo ... love, love, love my red walls, but they can really change the color of things ...

this 38 x 62 mahogany table with a steel shaker base left last week for california ...

bottom view with the actual mahogany color

and now were working on a version of this table we made in 2002,

the main difference in the new design is the shape of the pedestal, which the client took from our walnut and leather poker table ....

and will had to refigure out how to make the edge inlay blanks ... burl, bubinga and end grain peruvian walnut .. he wasnt here yet for the last time around and i couldnt exactly remember how to do it ...

heres how it looked at the end of the day today ... the edge inlay is all in and trevor will glue the burl center inlays in tomorrow in the vacuum bag ... a little clean up, some aprons and the runners and well wrap this one up ... i am planning a post on the whole table process, but certainly, not now ...

close up of the center inlay fitting

next ... this is the model for the 30" x 9 8" elm table with the rebar base, made from an architects sketch ...

the client was concerned that the welded rebar base might need some other support, but sam convinced me that that would be totally unnecessary ... just as a fun test, we took the unglued rubber wood 1/8th " dowel model and loaded it, and put a little side schoice weight on it ... no problem ... i imagine the welded steel base will be fine ...

to select the elm slabs for the table tops, i took a little trip to berkshire products in sheffield, mass last week ... if you havent been there or checked their website, its a fantastic wood resource with a great photo website.

bought this one for the single table,

these two for the 17 table ... they will join in the center around an existing brick 30 x 30 column ...

bought a little burl for the cherry table were working on too .. lots to choose from

big leaf maple from the west coast ...

the black and steel 60" table with the stainless base and two leaves ...

and we have a couple serious nibbles on the big claro walnut slab on the wall in the finish room. in this drawing, it will become a 9 x 50" coffee table in aspen.

and lastly in the new model department, we have this maple and steel dining table with a clever adaptation by the clients of our shaker steel base ...

and finally will got his banjo pot turning aparatus for seeders instruments rigged up and it works really slick. it a combination of wood and metalworking tools that, with a little help from some online googling and some parts from grizzly and mcmaster carr, he adapted the whole works to suit his process. this is the inside of the pot turning set up ...

and, to turn the outside, you flip over the tool holder and angle the base plate. hes got two more parts to turn for some banjo orders, so he is really happy that it worked as well as it did.
all for now ... thanks for sticking with me. gold star for you if you made it all the choice through. turns out i had to have the tall cold ones before i finished ... have a great weekend.

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its just nuts here but really im not complaining

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we have a roof

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Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you Mister Jones

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