Arts and Crafts Mantel

Great looking mantle. I like the symmerty.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Beautiful job. I really like the tile work. Very “authentic”

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

Yes it is a significant improvement over the former and a job well done I might add. I like the contrast between the tile and the color of the finish. They compliment each other very much. The screen adds the finishing touch. I think everything fits together perfect!

-- --Chuck

That looks awesome.

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

All that missing is a fire the wife and a bottle of wine…well done Blkcherry

I really like the mantle. You did a beautiful job on this piece. Thank you for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

The greatest part is that I didn’t realized it was covering the existing one, that’s a well executed job.

-- Thuan

excellent piece of work

welcome to lumberjocks

-- a legend in my own mind ...

A beautiful job- very faithful to the arts & crafts style. That kind of sweat equity will really pay off! I never see quarter-sawn red oak around here- just the white oak. Did you special order it?

-- Jeff, Rio Rancho

wow , the improvement goes beyond huge ! great looking mantle

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

I’m not a big A&C fan but I love the mantle. It looks great.

-- Use the fence Luke

Good choice for red oak, how is the “grille insert” made, is it scroll sawed from a pattern and is it oak also?
Thanks
Michael

Looks great. I like the scroll saw work on the center insert.

-- making sawdust....

Much improved! Wowsa, that puppy needed replacing and you did a fine job in gettin’ er done!

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

Classic and beautiful. Great job.

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Thanks to all for the wonderful comments. I was lucky enough to find a woodworker’s “dream wood store” in Boise, ID. The place is called High Desert Hardwoods and it’s basically a big warehouse filled with stacks of rough sawn hard wood planks, both domestic and exotic. It’s run by some great folks that clearly love woodworking. They let you dig through the piles, they’ll cut stuff to rough length, anything you want. That’s where I found the quarter-sawn red oak.

I’d like to take responsibility for scroll sawing the detail on the grille insert, but it’s actually a cast aluminum grille from Reggio Register, a company out of Boston, I believe. The fireplace was retro fitted in the 60’s (I believe) with a “heatilator” style passive convective heating system. There’s a series of tubes above the fire box that connect to the front grille. When heated by a fire, the air in the tubes flows up and out the grille. Room air is then drawn into the system from vents on the sides.

-- Hailey, ID

Beautiful job! It just screams quality.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

That is a wonderful mantle. I really like the design and construction of it as well. I may have to borrow some ideas from this if you do not mind. I promised one to my wife for Christmas several years ago and I hear about it every year. You would think that she’d have forgotten about it by now?

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.