A while back my mother-in-law presented me with these tiles she purchased on a trip to Italy; she asked if I would make a frame for them, just something simple she said.

Well, I didn’t for quite some time.

Being a big fan of the craftsman style and wanting to try my hand at it I came up with this design – at least I think it is my design – it incorporates a cloud lift element from Green and Green – multiple radii, mortise and tenon joinery and half laps, I skipped the pegs on the mortise and tenons. The tiles are held in place with silicon adhesive – I think this is way more complex than she imagined but she likes it just the same. It is made of some nicely figured cherry and finished with a couple of coats of tung oils followed by a coat of blonde shellac followed by some semi-gloss wipe on poly.

Thanks for looking.

Walnut, Hard Maple and Purple Heart. A one off box made for our white elephant Christmas exchange. A couple coats of shellac followed by a couple coats of poly. Hind sight tells me I should have started with linseed oil then shellac then poly…

Hey, can you make us a few beading looms? Uh, sure, OK. At least they aren’t asking me to buy cookies too, YET! Darn Girl Scouts :-)

I made this box and simply ornament for a Christmas exchange. Oak wrapped in lace wood edged with purple heart. The sander was a great CL find -

I made this several years ago – it is the most dustless tool i have – I used nothing but scrap wood and it was the test subject for my HVLP sprayer – I combined several designs and innovated dust collection – it has the PC 3hp variable speed motor and a jessem router lift – a far cry from my original scrap of plywood and 2×4 legs… it has made close to 100 raised panels – the same number of rails and stiles and many many other things and tossed al most no dust into the air…

Corner cabinet before paint