A quick side job this weekend. I cut out a set of doors from MDF for a local cabinet maker on the CNC router.
MDF doors
Floating shelves
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.
Media center
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!
Bar Area
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.
A small table and a platter
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.
Work in progress – maple doors
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.
Jacksonville Fair
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.
Console Table
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.
Cedar tongue and groove ceiling
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!
Work in progress – Console Table
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!
