Custom cabinetry, woodworking and woodturning by Keith Larrett
I got to revisit a project we built and installed a couple months ago. My clients asked if I could come and install a decorative metal artwork that had been made custom made for them. The metal piece has elements of a palm tree, a theme repeated in other places in the home. The metal looks great, contrasting nicely with the stained alder.
I made this three legged table a while ago. It’s built from cedar. Eastern red cedar.
It’s been sitting in the workshop office for a while. This week a visiting client decided she had the perfect spot for it and so it has a new home now ?
The Jacksonville Fair opens on Wednesday, along with the annual woodturning competition. This is my entry this year. A maple platter with walnut and pewter inlay. Just shy of 24″ diameter.
A set of maple doors in progress for a built-in media center I’m working on. These will be finished with pigmented lacquer. It’s good to know that under that color there is attention to detail and solid joinery.
I’ve been working on my entry to the annual Jacksonville Fair woodturning competition. I can’t show the piece until the fair starts next week, and because it’s not finished yet 🙂
This image was my entry at last year’s event. Norfolk Island Pine hollow form decorated with pewter leaves.
I delivered the console table. It looks very much at home. My client was very pleased and excited about choosing one or two decorative items to display on it.
The table is made from alder, stained and finished with waterborne conversion varnish. The top is veneered with patina copper veneer.
We wrapped up a busy week last week with the installation of not one, but two cedar tongue and groove ceilings.
We’ve installed a number of these now and it is easier to just let them speak for themselves. It can be hard to beat the beauty of mother nature!
I started spraying the top coat on the console table I’m working on. I’m using water based conversion varnish. This is the “B” side of some of the parts. Looking forward to spraying the show side next!
Last week we installed these vanities as part of a bathroom remodel. They are made from white oak with cane door panels and solid oak drawers. They also have inset doors.
A short while ago I posted about turning the feet for these cabinets. They are split turned from white oak.
It was my first time working with cane. It was quite a learning curve but I eventually got it figured out. I really like the look of the cane door panels!
The cabinets were finished with @targetcoatings
EM6000 water base acrylic lacquer with a flat sheen. The flat sheen looks really nice in this project.
I was pleased with how these cabinets came out and can’t wait to see the bathroom once the remodel is complete.
I made some good progress on the consul table today. Did a dry fit on the legs and stretchers. Tomorrow I’ll take it apart and start sanding it prior to applying the stain.
The consul table I’m working on at the moment has crossed legs held together with a half lap joint. Typically I would use a dado blade on the table saw to make the half-lap joint, but these are tapered so I decided to cut them on the @shopbottools CNC router.
This short video shows the process, from cutting a jig to hold the legs on the CNC table to forming the half lap joints and how the legs join together.
This is the first time I’ve held a workpiece in a pocket without any clamps or vacuum. I was surprised at how effective and secure it was.