Live Edge Coffee Table - Birch and Mahogany

This is a coffee table my nephew made.

I think he did a good job on the design.....  

sort of a Modern or Mid-Century Retro feel.

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Hallway Table - African Mahogany (Jakota) and Okume

 

 

This is a hallway table I made for my Brother and his family.  I really made it for him, but they can use it too.  Unless they put like a glass of ice-water on it or something.

 

 

The legs are tapered and there is some fairly complicated jointery due to all of the angels that causes.

Each leg was made from four pieces, to provide some visual interest.

The top is a mix of Jakota and Okume.  These are African hardwoods and have a high silica content.  They sand/polish and finish well, but are hard on the cutting tools.

 

 

These pictures were taken at the Gallery One, while it was entered in some show or something.

It was in the Front Window for a time...  This lighting gives a good view of the color variations.

Construction Pictures:

Just before applying the first coat of finish.

Some details of the gaps, angles, tapers....

This is my Brother.  He had an Idea for me to make him a hallway table.

So I found an ad on Craigslist near his house.  It was like a cabinet maker going out of business that had some exotic woods.  I asked him to go see what he could get for $200.

Seriously, that is a longbed pickup.  A ton of wood for  the money, but that presented a different problem.

Staking and sorting it all

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Driver Lamp - Maple, Walnut and screwdrivers

 This is yet another piece I made for the Gallery One Resident Artists' Holiday Show 2020

 

 

 

That's me on the left.

Construction Pictures:

This is an aged slab of walnut

Drivers from maybe 40 estate sales - looking for mostly yellow and orange.

Bright LEDs, check.  They're the wrong shape... es no problemo.

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Flight Light Fixture - Ohia, Kamani and Sitka Spruce

This is my attempt to make a 1960's light fixture for my kitchen

I've been locked out of my jeweler's studio - So, I have been doing woodworking in my garage.  

Dang old Covid 19

Here is the photo from my Artist Registry Page at Gallery One.

The pictures aren't very good, but I will eventually install it and get better pictures.

The woods are Ohia and Kammani that I brought back from Hawaii and Sitka Spruce that I brought back from Alaska.  You know, the 49th and 50th states.

CalDawg Helped me with pictures and I was goofing off taking pictures of him.  Jodi liked it.

Construction Photos:

Wood!  These are Ohia and Kamanni from Hawaii and Sitka Spruce from Alaska.

None of the boards were long enough, because I brought them back from vacations in Hawaii and Alaska, so I had to piece them all together.  This is after cutting the basic shapes out.

This was figuring out spacing for the LED light bulbs.

This is the Kamanni and figuring out how to get a sweep shape.

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Koa and Walnut Shelves

KOA and Walnut Shelves construction:

(Good thing I had a few projects during the Covid-19 pandemic.)

Nearly Complete

Installed!

Second One.

David Weidman 1964 - the house was built in 1964

 


Construction Photos:

A billet of KOA that I brought back from the Big Island - $115 for this board.

There was a beautiful bend to the board, I decided to incorporate it into the design.

Peruvian Walnut for the - I don't know what that part is called - I wanna say arms.

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