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Ever feel like you are in a rut???? I know more frames in the Mission Arts and Crafts Style…with Quarter Sawn White Oak. What can I say, they bring in money. These are frames for two different customers from a Furniture Store I deal with. The one customer wanted a lighter stain to match some of her other stuff she had. These are the Motawi tiles 4” x 8” and the other dark stained frame is a matted tile that the other customer had in a different frame. They are all mortise and tennon joinery with walnut pegs in two of them and walnut butterflies in the other one. Enjoy… Thanks for looking.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
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28 comments so far
dennis mitchell
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posted 224 days ago
Beautiful rut if you ask me!
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Thos. Angle
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posted 224 days ago
Dandy rut, indeed. We all have our standbys, Max.
-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon
MsDebbieP
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posted 224 days ago
lol I agree—quite the beautiful rut you are in!!
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Les Hastings
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posted 224 days ago
Very nicely done, rut or no rut!
-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)
Max
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posted 224 days ago
Dennis, Thos., Debbie and Les,
Thank you for the kind words.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Karson
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posted 224 days ago
Great looking job. Did you supply the tiles or did the customer.
-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com
Max
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posted 224 days ago
Karson,
Thank you. The customers supplied the tiles on these.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Critterman
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posted 224 days ago
Frames are just right for those great tiles. Exceptional work.
-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA
Max
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posted 224 days ago
Jim,
Thank you very much for the compliment.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
TomFran
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posted 224 days ago
Beautiful creations and craftsmanship, Max. The finish looks excellent too. Nice work!
-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28
Max
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Tom,
Thank you. The finish is a water base dye with a oil stain overlay and then a lacquer finish.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Scott Bryan
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posted 224 days ago
Hi Max,
These are nice frames. I may have to “borrow” your post. I really like these frames. The pegs add a nice detail to them as well. I assume that the pegs are pinning the tenons rather than being just decorative??
In the third frame what about the dutchman inlays? Are they more than decorative??
Thanks for the post.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
Max
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posted 224 days ago
Scott,
Thank you for the compliment. Borrow away…. You are correct the pegs are pinning the tenons and the dutchman are more than decorative.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
jockmike2
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posted 224 days ago
Beautiful job Max. Man I love that color. What color dye did you use? Wow it’s too much. I love it. mike
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Max
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posted 223 days ago
Mike,
Thank you. The dark frame is dyed first with a Reddish Brown dye and then oil based Spiced Walnut stain applied and the lighter frame is a yellow dye and then a oil based red mahogany stain applied.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
ND2ELK
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posted 223 days ago
Hi Max
Beautiful job as always! I really love the tiles you use.
Tom
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Robb
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posted 223 days ago
Those are some great tiles; I bet your customers are very happy! Nice work, thanks for sharing them.
Robb
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Max
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Tom and Robb,
I appreciate the kind words. The tiles were provided by the customers.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
DAN
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posted 210 days ago
I like them !
-- ..... art for lifes sake
Max
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posted 209 days ago
Dan,
Thank you for the compliment.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
DAN
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posted 205 days ago
All works of quality must bear a price in proportion to the skill, time expense and risk attending to their invention and manufacture. Those things called dear, are, when justly estimated, the cheapest. They are attended with much less profit to the artist then those things which everbody calls cheap.
-- ..... art for lifes sake
Douglas Bordner
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posted 205 days ago
Anyone would be proud to have these hanging prominently on their walls. Good job, Max.
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
Max
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posted 205 days ago
Thank you Doug for the compliment. The one with the blue tile in it the customer wanted me to redo so she could see the entire tile. I mounted it from the back in the one pictured. The new one I mounted from the front so you could see the edges of the tile. The store that ordered them for the customers had me mount it from the back the first time thinking that is what the customer wanted. So they are paying me again for the do over.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Douglas Bordner
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posted 205 days ago
Paid on a call-back! Extra good job. Max :)
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
Max
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Doug,
At least I didn’t cause the “call-back”. This work was done through a furniture store that I do custom work for and they gave me the directions on the build which wasn’t what the end user wanted. So the store is paying me for the re-do’s for it was there mistake.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
FJPetruso
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posted 188 days ago
Max…
Combining the Mission furniture with the tiles is beautiful! The square pegs look great too.
-- Frank, Florissant, Missouri
Max
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posted 188 days ago
Frank,
Thank you so much for the compliment.
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Paul D
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posted 188 days ago
Max, I really like these and might just need to give them a try myself. May I ask what you typically charge for one of these?
-- Paul D, Atlanta GA