A Little Humor For All You Chair Builders Out There

Instructional Video on KungFu chairbuilding

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Hide The Wires

Were building a curly maple kitchen island table for a local client ... It will have a really nice orangy,brownish, granite top ... One of the challenges was to hide the wires that will come out of the floor and up to the outlets and switch on the side apron of the table ... The legs are 3.75" square, which gave us plenty of room. The eureka moment was to cut the mitered filler piece out while the solid curly maple legs were still oversize at 4" square. Click the photo below to enlarge it and youll understand that once it is glued back in, it will match almost invisibly ... Worked slick ...
Legsm aprons, face frame, drawer framing members
Close up of the corner detail and the channel down through the leg
Here were starting the finish .. Below with a temporary top for the photo ...

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Bed Update

3/28/10 ... Ok Home Stretch .... The woodworking part of the bed is pretty much complete and the first coat of stain is already on all the bed parts except the headboard, where we still have to do the inlays this week. They are going to be fun .... Click the pictures to enlarge them.
headboard assembled, ready for the inlay strip and inlays
This is the first sample inlay for one of the pair of center ducks. We did it in aluminum as a test, but the real inlays will be steel copper and brass ,,, all colored slightly with different patina solutions ... like a coloring, sort of ...
The nearly completed CAD drawing
3/16/2010 OK ... were making progress on the bed ... Will has finished carving the spiral posts and the walnut pine cones and is about to mortise the headboard posts to receive the headboard ... Below, Will and Jim are checking the pattern to be sure everythings the right size now that weve got it together for the first time. Happily, it all seems to line up ... Tomorrow, we mortise and cut the real headboard to shape for the final fitting before the inlays ....

Bolted up for the first time .... Click the pictures to enlarge them ,,,

Close up of the post top and one of the walnut pine cones

A sample center inlay Trevor cut today ... The ones in the bed will be made from brass, (beaks and feet), copper (reddish color details) and steel, blued, blackened and polished for grays ... Its going to be really interesting when we get to that ....
Some really fine curly maple for the headboard from our friends at Irion ... Totally white, totally nice and totally consistent figure across all the boards ...

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More Metal Doors

Sam has another little door project for Peter Moore Masonry. Similar to the last one that covered a digital thermometer in a traditional brick oven, these incorporate parts of the logos of the owners companies ... Love the pulls ....click the pictures to enlarge them ...
The first door ready for patina ...
In its frame yesterday
The second door ... might be a copper rivet/sun on this one later ...

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