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.
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.
the curved moldings in barn board are gonna be a trick .. working on that tomorrow.
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 the metal shop doors and stairs are here, as is the slate,, below ...more progress soon.
this is the inspiration photo, with notes ... 
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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.
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.
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 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 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
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Senin, 07 November 2016
summer 2013
well, ok, this is gonna take a minute ... loyal readers might think that since i havent posted many new projects lately, that not much has been happening. they would be wrong. its summer, and there is more going on at dorset custom furniture now than there has been for, literally, years. lots of projects in the works, on the board and committed, and in the design stage. im thinking that maybe this time its for real, that the economy is finally rebounding, though i have been fooled several times in the last few years. cautious optimism creeps in ... click the photos to enlarge them ...
the kitchen we started back in may is slowly getting finished ... were on the home stretch, and the painters have taken over now .. here are a few progress shots, the last being from wednesday, the third.
weve got a little cornice work, and some pantry pullouts to construct and then we put it all back together when the paint is done and the appliances arrive ...
its starting to look like the model ..
next up on that project is a nice 8 x 8 master bath vanity, again painted. this is an early elevation that has since been revised.
this is the inspiration photo, with notes ... we made the round corners and the main drawer box on tuesday and well be assembling the rest of the boxes later next week.
saw it, plane it, sand it ...
lots of parts to this project .. two other interesting vanities ...
this one in reclaimed barnboards, with their original, exterior texture intact ...
and some unusual corner shelves involving a hand hewn beam salvaged from the restoration process and some 3" thick torsion box shelves to fill the notches in the beam that were formerly occupied by the floor joists ..
plan view
above is the cardboard mockup, with some assorted door frames ... its a busy site
and for the same builder, on a different project, were going to get to do a slightly smaller, 8 version of this 10 cherry shaker style wall piece we did back in 2006, in the same house .. itll be old home days ..
and sams busy in the metal shop .. working on some new railings for the dorset church ..
there will be a nice handrail and some forged scrolly things .. more on that later ..
he is finishing up a couple more steel lounge chairs for a landgrove client, and weve got 3 or 4 more steel and wood furniture pieces on the board ... coffee tables, two dining tables ... i just noticed a couple sections of recently completed railings in the background of this photo .. and so it goes ...
and wills off to west virginia for next week to take an instrument repair course with bob smakula ... in the near future, hes intending to really focus on his banjo business and see where that goes. banjo, i think, #17, above. cocobolo and brass, fretless .. cherry and walnut neck and pot ... more info on wills banjos at seedersinstruments.com
and, weather permitting, which lately we certainly cant guarantee around here, well be having some walls for the new metal shop. drawings are finalized, windows are ordered, used slate has been purchased ... its all good. but did i mention the tropical monsoons we have been having here in vermont? like clockwork, most afternoons were getting an inch or so of fresh rain daily and its supposed to be 90+ degrees again today. sams backyard trout stream is running at 10 times its typical cubic feet per minute for this time of year. ten times its typical july flow, i said. blown out, is, i believe, the term.
walls monday ...