Thanks for your comments. Here are a couple of other shots of the wall cabinet. If you look at the edge of the door, about two thirds of the way down from where RamRam is standing, you’ll see a recess which is the “pull.” It feels nice.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything but I have been working. The wall cabinet has a coopered door of spalted maple and a cherry case. The hardest part was making the curved front drawers. It’s finished with hot boiled linseed oil and Butchers bowling alley wax (Thomas Moser). The dinning room table has four drawers in it to hold place settings. The chairs are some of my first efforts at chair making…sturdy but crude. The bar stools are spalted maple and walnut with a purple heart wedge.

This is a Christmas present that I made for my daughter from wood that she and I brought back from a trip to India. I wrote a short blog explaining how it got here. It was a fun project.

When we learned we were going to become grandparents I decided it was time to build a rocking chair. It was finished before he was born, but not by much. I didn’t have any plans or instructions or experience in rocking chairs, and very little in chairs at all, but it came out okay. It’s quite comfortable…I used my wife to figure out how big to make it and where to place the arms for holding a baby. Except for a thirty yeayr difference my wife and daughter are about the same size. (Pretty neat, huh?) He’s almost four now and I’m about to start a second rocker only this time I got in touch with Bill Kappel and he sent me the beta on rocking chairs. It’s a good thing I didn’t know how hard these things were four years ago…I never would have tried it.

This is a chess table that I made a while ago out of cherry, purple heart, and yellow heart. The drawer handles were made by my daughter who is a blacksmith. The two chairs, one ash and one cherry sat with the table in a local coffee shop for over a year and are still rock solid but there were many times when I was in the shop and shuddered as I watch some very large patrons sit down on them. The chairs are back in our dining room now but the table is still in the coffee shop and even though I made it, it doesn’t help my game one bit.

This is a table that my daughter, Emily, and I made together. By day she’s and engineer and a scientist but she’s also a pretty good blacksmith. The joints are through and through tenons mades with nothing more than hammers, chisels, and heat. Lots of heat. My part was some highly figured white oak. Needless to say, the table has some heft. Look at the handles on my chess table also.

My daughter wanted a picnic table that could be taken apart for storage during the long winters in Northern New York.This trestle table is made of cypress with purple heart pegs holding the two cross members in place. They come out, the top comes off and it stores until the warm weather returns…about June! The parrot is extra…

This is a little wine serving table that I just finished. It’s made out of red oak and purple heart. Inside the drawer that slides out from either side there’s a cheese board made of spalted maple with a purple heart boarder. The finish is Waterlox. It holds four bottles of your favorite wine and a half dozen glasses.