a claro walnut dining table for sale

ive got this claro walnut table ready to ship.  it could be at your house in time for the holidays.

polished rebar and walnut base ... +/- 44 x 88 x 19.5

$6500. plus shipping

802-867-5541

dan@com

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New Blog Widget

i recently added the Google share widget to the bottom of my blog posts ... you can now easily email, twitter, facebook and blog about my posts if you want. it seems fairly inobtrusive. use it or ignore it ... thanks.. dan

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update on the george the third style table

well, due to the vagaries of my shippers schedule, im going to have some time to get a formal picture of this one,  but for now, heres a snapshot.  there were a lot of steps and stages in its construction and im glad to see it finished.  heres a link to the original blog post that details making, detailing and gluing up the pedestals, and photos of the edge and inlay details.  click the photos to enlarge them ...

a close up of the walnut and burl edge detail

 early in the stain/finish process

a view of the bottom

and a photo of the the original, larger, expanding,version that we made waaaay back in 1991 ...

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Mysterious Greene Greene Like Houses

I belong to a Yahoo newsgroup on Greene & Greene design, architecture and furniture. I have alchoices enjoyed the style of the Greene brothers, and, while not a strict copier, I have often been influenced by their design vocabulary. when working with clients with a fondness for Arts & Crafts style furniture. So, in 2003, while preparing to make a couple of rooms of furniture for one of my local clients, I took a trip to Pasadena to tour the Gamble House, the Huntington Museum, meet with John Hamm about lighting and visit a friend in Huntington Beach ... Good trip.
On my choice to the airport, I ran into a friend and told him about my upcoming trip. He told me his sister-in-law, or someone related to him, lived in a G&G house and gave me her number .. I called her when I got to town and she agreed to let me visit her and her house ... Cool neighborhood ... I dont know if her house is a documented G&G but it sure had some similarities ... The whole neighborhood had a consistent Arts and Crafts feel. As I recall, she had some original plans and I glanced at them, but dont remember the details ... Click the photos to enlarge them and leave a comment if you know anything about the houses or the neighborhood ... Thanks ....
My memory is a little sketchy and I didnt take notes, but I think this is the front door of the sister-in-law? Since she met me when I pulled up, I didnt take a lot of photos of the outside of the house ... I think hers was the 2nd or third on the left.
Her front door from the inside ...
She took me to meet her neighbor down the street at #309 ... He was also friendly and gave me a tour of his house ... I dont have a photo, but he had a definite G&G like stairchoice and I also recall some stained glass transom lights ...
The neighbors front porch ...
Below I have posted photos of (I think) Charless studio around the corner from the Gamble House .... I would love to know a little about that and what it looked like inside ... Thanks ...

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The Claro Walnut Slab Table Is Done

OK.... We finally finished it ... In the end, it turns out we cant deliver it until the carpenters will be finished in another month, so there was no rush to complete it, except, the client was going to be in town this weekend, and, #2, I need the money. So ... all together now and looking good. It is somewhat surprising, #1, how heavy it is now that its all together, and #2, how completely rigid the steel support structure ended up being ... Grab the end with both hands and try to shake it; you almost cant even wiggle it a little. Im very pleased with our engineering department. Click these pictures to enlarge them and visit these other posts for the full story ...
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This was a challenging photograph. My camera is not quite good enough to keep the whole 10 feet of it in focus and also the reflections from windows and lights in the somewhat shiny finish were really tough to eliminate .. Best I can do I think ...
A view from below ... The base is bolted together and will completely disassemble for delivery to CT
The picture below is a close up of this section of the table
Close up of the crotch end of the slab ... Amazing variety of figure and color
With (coincidentally) ten almost finished ladder back chairs for another client. I first wrote about these chairs in a post last November.

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Upcoming Shows

Couple things coming up ... Next weekend, again, in Woodstock is the Seventh Annual Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival . I wont be having my own booth, but Lisa Laberge, of Lisa Laberge Interiors will be using a dining table and chairs of ours for her booth Out of the Modern Woods. Shes creating a 10 x 20 room decorated with all Vermont made furniture and might also have room for my skinny console, a new piece were working on that should be finished this week sometime ... The top is ready to finish and Sams welding up the base tomorrow .... Well also have a new steel and wood sculpture there in the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers booth. (the Guild has a pretty slick new website at that link ... check it out) Havent started that piece yet but we have it figured out and hey, nothing focuses the mind like a fast approaching deadline.
Also in the last minute department, this week well be reworking a prototype bench Sam and I made last summer, for an upcoming show at the Southern Vermont Art Center. We had some furniture there this spring and they invited us to place a bench in one of the galleries for the upcoming fall shows that open October 1st. I worked on the bench for a couple hours this morning and I think I have that one figured out too ... Ive got four days to get it all together ... Ill keep you posted ....
as it is now
first attempt
thinner verticals, bigger circle piece
photoshopped in the back set ...
the skinny console again

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new metal shop open house

 

were going to have a little celebration/open house tomorrow, on sunday, the 29th .. hours are from 2 to 5 .. come on by and check out sams new space, and see some of the projects hes been working on.    

the actual address is 23 goodwood lane, which is one mile up danby mountain road from route 30 in dorset, vermont. goodwood lane is on the left and 23 is the first drivechoice on the left.

light refreshments and good company

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Kamis, 10 November 2016

sheldon slate granville new york

while working on the designs for the custom kitchen we started this week, our client and i went to visit a local slate fabricator, sheldon slate, in middle granville, new york. its about 15 miles up the metawee valley through the corn and over the border ... who knew?

what a place !!! thats a 90" diamond saw blade spinning at about, oh, i dont know, 2000 rpm?, slicing through about a 3 x 4 block of slate, 3/4 of an inch at a time, cutting both choices .... click the photos to enlarge them ..

a view from the side ... were sawing very unusual red slate today ... twice as hard, twice as much breakage, twice as much waste, twice as expensive ...

but oh my, maybe twice as beautiful ... these are pretty big pieces, like 66" x 57", and the rain made them just glow ...

you gotta love the scale of these tools. i think it was about 10 between the uprights on this bandsaw.  our tour guide, gary, told us sometimes the blocks are so heavy they cant pick them up off the huge dump trucks they come in on from the quarry and they just back the truck into the mill, cut em in half right on the truck, then drive it back out and unload ...

the view out the back door there looks over part of the quarry and south to haystack and home ...

and out the other door, the acres of inventory

including a little roof slate, like maybe 500 square or so ..

loved it, and i didnt have my camera for the first half of the tour where we visited the honing/planing/milling section ... more big tools ...
we were there to look at the available colors and give them a heads up that we would need some pretty big counters ... the one on the right will require a piece about 6 wide and 7 long with some angles, sink and faucet holes and a custom made 42 x 21 x 12" deep matching slate sink. the one on the left, about 50" x 100" ... no problem ... just bring your checkbook ... more on the kitchen soon ...
were underchoice, site check today ....

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Kamis, 03 November 2016

new table design

A client sent me some links recently to tables that she had seen online that she kind of liked but not exactly ... The size she was looking for (60 x 86) was not a standard one for most manufacturers so, I made a drawing for her. Working with ovals to define the curves, I played around with the proportions until I arrived at something that had some promise .. I got her ok for the concept and gave the drawing to Trevor, who cncd up a quick 1/6th scale model to look at. After a little more back and forth, we came to an agreement and we were off. Click the photos to enlarge them ...
The 1/6th model is on top of the bottom of the English elm table we finally finished this week ...
Without the top showing the interior flower kind of concept ...
We started with 4 really nice wide boards of walnut from Irion Lumber ...
and after the top was glued up started in on the 16/4 pieces for the base. From the model drawing, Trevor made full sized patterns to help layout the cutsAfter mitering them on the tablesaw, we added 3/4 inch hardwood dowels that passed through the center of each section to allow us to later run timberlock bolts up through the x cross base and into the four sections.
Before gluing up we also added some long grain walnut to reinforce the short grain out near the ends of the arcs. We tried a bunch of different approaches to clamping ...
and then hit on the idea of a cut out piece of plywood collar, clamps on the bottom, and cross clamps on the top, which allowed us to view the place where the four miters came together ... It all seemed good until we added the actual glue which for a minute turned the whole process into a small wrestling/clamp juggling match which we eventually won ...
Before adding the crossed base elements, Trevor routed and glued and screwed in a half inch baltic birch play reinforcing spider that gave us all confidence in the integrity of the glue up ...
A little more sanding and it will be off to the finish room next week ...
Were liking it and have already discussed a couple of variations on the theme ...

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