Category: Latest Work

I was excited about this project from the moment I first received an “inspiration picture” from my clients. They did a lot of work in this room including tearing out an existing fireplace, sheetrock, new tile, new electric fireplace, and paint. My part was the design, fabrication, and installation of the suspended cabinets and floating shelves. It was a pleasure to be involved and to play a part in taking a vision and turning into a physical reality.

The cabinets feature horizontal grain from rift sawn white oak veneer. Push to open hinges on the doors. Solid maple drawer boxes with full extension under mount drawer guides. LED lights under the cabinets and the floating shelves all controlled by a single remote.

From time to time Google Photos likes to remind me what I was doing a couple years ago. Apparently, two years ago today I was working on a large cross I was commissioned to build from a couple of barn beans. The cross now hangs on the wall in my clients study.

Access panel in the side of a cabinet, held securely with speaker panel connectors.

I glue up a lot of solid wood edge banding. These MDF panels are for a regular client and will form part of a speaker stand. They will be edge banded with solid cherry on all four sides and then veneered with cherry. The cherry veneer is the underside of a shelf on which a granite slab will be adhered to support sound equipment.
My shop made clamp rack has saved me so much time and space with operations like this. I just cut a bunch of holes in two pieces of plywood on the CNC and then mounted them to the wall with a couple inches space between. When I need to do a glue up the clamps slide into the holes quickly and can be configured depending in the size of the piece. No need to find floor or bench space while the glue is curing. When not in use the clamps hang on the plywood out of the way.

The project I’m working on has two countertops made from rift saw white oak plywood. Instead of using a black plastic grommet to hide the hole for electrical cables, I cut some custom grommets from solid white oak on the CNC router.
Very pleased with the results 😊

At the end of each year I go through the images of all the projects I’ve worked on during the year and compile a calendar. It’s a nice memory of the years highlights.

I’ve been doing this since we purchased the workshop. It’s hard to believe that this is my seventh calendar. How the years have flown by!

Vacuum pressing slab doors and drawer fronts.

Rift sawn white oak paper backed veneer pressed onto a core of half-inch plywood laminated with 1/8″ MDF both sides. The plywood reduces the weight and makes for better screw holding, while the MDF ensures a flat surface.

The veneer pieces are laid out and cut sequentially so when the cabinet is assembled the grain will flow uninterrupted across the front of the cabinet.

The vacuum bag and pump have proven to be very useful over the last couple of years. The CNC table makes for a nice flat surface for this process 😁

My next project includes a number of floating shelves made from rift sawn white oak plywood.   I cut them out on the CNC using a 91-degree V-bit.   I don’t cut all the way through the plywood, I leave around 10 thou of an inch.   Once cut they can be folded up and glued like a box.   They will have LED lights recessed in the bottom of the shelf.

I installed this project yesterday. A set of cabinets to fill a niche opening in a living room. The cabinets feature inset doors, scalloped toe kick and a really big top! Nearly 12 feet long, the top was quite a challenge.

A number of years ago when I was installing kitchen cabinets I noticed how many new homes had niche openings in the walls like this. I would often think to myself, “I bet someone could make a living building stuff to fill those holes”.

Well, it’s coming on three years now and I’m hanging in there!